The Quaker Oats Company added more products this week to a recall that started last month over possible salmonella contamination, raising the total number of products to more than 60. Quaker Oats, which is owned by PepsiCo, initially recalled 43 products, including granola bars, cereals and various snack foods. On Thursday, the company added 24…
Maybe you’d like to eat more tofu this year? (It is, after all, good for you.) Yewande Komolafe’s glazed tofu with chile and star anise makes that easy. As Yewande notes, Sichuan hui guo rou, or twice-cooked pork, inspired the technique used here: The tofu blocks are first seared whole, then torn into bite-size pieces…
Winslow Dumaine was heading to a store on Chicago’s North Side when he saw it: a hole in the sidewalk on Roscoe Street with an uncanny resemblance to a rodent. Mr. Dumaine, who is an artist and comedian, said the hole represented two themes often present in his work: morbidity and whimsy. “Had to make…
An auction house in Dallas that is usually stocked with fine art and rare baseball cards now holds a six-foot dog mascot suit last seen in Episode 1 of the HBO drama “Succession.” Audiences may recall a nauseated Cousin Greg (Nicholas Braun) putting on the costume and puking through its eyeballs. The item has been…
When fans first glimpsed outfits in the new adaptation of “Mean Girls,” they were not shy with feedback on the film’s pink miniskirts and mesh bustiers. On social media, some said the costumes looked cheap, as if they had come from fast-fashion retailers. Others said they did not lean heavily enough on the Y2K style…
“I got these for you,” my mom said. She chucked a bag of Laffy Taffy at my sister. I looked through the sliding glass door, but it was dark again. All I could see was my own stupid face. All I could see was the money and time we had spent, the things we had…
Less obvious were the nagging model rivalries. As her fame grew, Ms. Johnson fretted that younger Black models, Iman in particular, would eclipse her, a prospect that fueled her already mounting anxiety. Nor did it help that she and her peers often resorted to cocaine to curb their food cravings. Drugs were an occupational hazard,…
In February 2016, the parents of Dr. Tristan Lue’s fiancée flew in from Korea to meet his family for the first time. Dr. Lue, a dentist based in Edgewater, N.J., felt a sudden shift in his yearlong relationship. It became clear that his would-be in-laws did not approve of their union. “Two days later, I…