Good morning. Tarako is a Japanese word meaning “children of cod.” It describes the salt-cured roe sacs of Alaskan pollock, a fish in the cod family, and it is a popular ingredient in Japanese cuisine. It’s found in Korean cooking, too, as well as in some French and Russian dishes: salty and rich with umami,…
Three weeks into my trek, as I ascended a steep path toward Yokomine-ji, the 60th of 88 temples along the Shikoku pilgrimage, I found myself enveloped by an unforgiving fog. In an instant, the colorful forest around me — mostly red cedar trees and fern bushes — faded, leaving me in a world of muted…
In Charleston Harbor, where the initiating shots of the Civil War were fired — Fort Sumter is distantly visible — I’m on the site of a former shipping pier known as Gadsden’s Wharf. Here, in the 18th and early 19th century, ships carrying tens of thousands of enslaved Black Americans deposited their human cargo, a…
Rain hammers the windshield as the shuttle van stops at the edge of the village of Sesto, Italy. We pile out without enthusiasm. It’s early September in Südtirol, just south of the Austrian border. Under the drooling eaves of a cafe, we pull on our rain gear. Nadine, the shuttle driver for a local tour…
Ms. Kang’s influence grew quickly in the midst of a wave of new investment, and interest in, the women’s game. In the summer of 2020, an eclectic group of owners including the actors Natalie Portman and Eva Longoria, the soccer legend Mia Hamm and the tennis great Serena Williams announced the creation of a team in…
From the time Sasha Colby first took the stage in the latest season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” her eventual victory appeared almost inevitable. The 38-year-old — whose tagline is “Your favorite drag queen’s favorite drag queen” — brought her work ethic and two decades of experience to every revealing-yet-revelatory costume, heartfelt lip-sync routine and comically…
Start small, look up and let your nose guide you.
Even in death, your teeth are perfect. I stand next to your open grave almost six years after you left me. The gravedigger stands across from me, waiting. I accuse him of having deliberately removed your bones without waiting for me to be here, because I see nothing but dirt in the pit. Eftyhios says,…
In 2018, Jocelyn Carol Ueng would host a five-course themed meal in her loft in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, twice a month for six paying guests at a time. In the hopes of generating publicity for her culinary project, she reached out to an Asian American literary magazine. Although her pitch to write a story about…
On their second date, a neighborhood stroll toward Red Hook, Mr. Miner took Mr. Bittar’s hand. “I know it sounds crazy, but I felt like, ‘Wow, that really fit,’” Mr. Bittar said. A relationship ensued, and in February 2019, it came time for Mr. Miner to meet Mr. Bittar’s twins. He arrived with a gift:…