When I was 5, my cousin started calling me “Mibu.” My siblings and other cousins followed suit. And then my aunts, uncles and parents did, too. To this day, my family still calls me “Mibu,” and I still answer to it. My cousin has no idea what prompted the name. We just know that it…
“While we empathize and understand that the insured’s travel was negatively impacted,” he wrote, “the plan does not cover errors made in determining travel documentation.” I begged to differ, noting that your policy covers trip delays caused by common carriers “including, but not limited to, scheduled departure and return times and actual departure and return…
You might assume that the children of New York Times food editors and writers have adventurous palates. Surely, you might think, a person who spends so much time cooking and eating would raise a fearless eater who happily devours composed salads for school lunch. But, dear reader, you’d be wrong. Most of our kids are…
It’s trite, but it’s true: After the excesses of the holiday season, January is the time to venture into more moderate territory. It’s just as well, but it needn’t feel restrictive. And something festive isn’t out of the question, either. When I’m cooking light, I tend to rely on some Asian pantry ingredients, which can…
It can be hard to keep up with trends these days…and that’s coming from someone who’s paid to do it. Especially with endless fashion and styling videos going viral on TikTok and dominating your Explore page, how can one keep track of what’s actually hot and what’s decidedly not? Should I spend my next paycheck…
Brad Dickson Welcome to 2023. It goes without saying that every new year promises to deliver on megawatt fashions that are sure to capture your attention (and find their way into your shopping carts). But if you need further proof, we’re kicking things off on a technicolor note with a bevy of bold and bright…
The meltdown that forced Southwest Airlines to cancel more than 16,700 holiday flights could cost the carrier between $725 million and $825 million, the airline said in a filing on Friday. The total represents about as much as the airline earned in the first nine months of last year. The crisis shows what can go…
The demand can be high, according to Sonal J. Shah, a New York wedding planner who has overseen nearly 2,000 high-end South Asian nuptials in her two-decade career. “Post-Covid, I would say in the U.S. alone there are between 6,000 to 6,500” South Asian weddings per year, she said. (Translation: dresses for nearly 20,000 events.)…
It has become the bedrock of virtuous eating. Experts answer common questions about how it leads to better health.
Dr. Oluwafemi Akinwale Kuti Jr. was only visiting California for a few months — but what he found was a long-term love. It was February 2017, and Dr. Kuti, a general practitioner and entrepreneur, was participating in a start-up program for Reliance Health, a health care company he had co-founded the year before in Lagos,…