Winter is rolling in, and with it a cool excuse to hit the refresh button on wardrobes. But this time of year isn’t just about dressing ourselves, of course—it’s about wrapping loved ones in layers of luxury, comfort, and style. After all, there’s just something extra about gifting a timeless, elegant piece of clothing or…
The 57-year-old man looked up the long staircase that led to his rooms in the rectory, the residence he shared with three other priests. He gripped the handrail on either side of the stairs and forced his foot onto the first step. Slowly he pulled himself up the two flights of stairs to his rooms.…
“The Core of an Onion,” Mark Kurlansky’s latest single-subject food book, made me think of Thanksgiving. He devotes an entire chapter to creamed onions, essential at Thanksgiving dinner when I was growing up. His book has recipes for them dated to 1665 and a reference to the 1941 film “They Died With Their Boots On,”…
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With all the pre-Thanksgiving preparations going on — the list-checking and turkey brining, the stock-simmering and pie-crust rolling — making actual dinners this week can feel like too much. A legit move is to order in, of course. But here’s another thought: Why wait for takeout when we at New York Times Cooking have a…
In early 2020, the world scrubbed down surfaces, washed hands and sneezed into elbows, desperate to avoid infection with a new coronavirus. But the threat was not really lying on countertops and doorknobs. The virus was wafting through the air, set adrift in coughs and conversation, even in song. The pandemic raged for six months…
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Rosalynn Carter, who died on Sunday at age 96, was rarely included on any list of best-dressed first ladies. She was not generally called “stylish” or “trendsetting.” She did not play the White House dress-up game, at least as designed by predecessors such as Dolley Madison and Jackie Kennedy. Most of the time, she seemed…
In a spacious Houston cafeteria awash in primary colors, diners crowded around big tables and dug into mashed potatoes splashed with a slick gravy, glossy green beans and sticky slabs of pecan pie. The calendar said Oct. 12. But this was Luby’s, where every day is Thanksgiving. “I am a Texan,” said Wunzel Lewis, 71,…
A pre-Thanksgiving storm that may bring severe thunderstorms, gusty winds, heavy rain and snow as it tracks from the central to the eastern United States early this week could disrupt holiday travel, forecasters said. “A vigorous upper-level trough” that is moving over the western United States will send a wave of “inclement weather rapidly from…