Share full article In 1944, King George VI gave his daughter Elizabeth a corgi named Susan for her 18th birthday. The future queen adored the breed and later helped make these small working dogs into a royal mainstay. In recent years, social media has boosted the breed’s popularity. “They are just so photogenic,” Dan McLemore,…
“I feel like I’m in a movie right now,” Petty Officer Third Class Ayanna Crawford said last weekend as she navigated the bow tie of Times Square, with its hordes of panhandlers costumed as Elmo, Minnie Mouse and Spider-Man. “I’m in culture shock.” Petty Officer Crawford, 20, who serves on the Wasp-class amphibious assault vessel…
While there’s a time and a place for sky-high heels or teetering platforms, we can’t resist the siren song of a shoe that promises nothing but sweet, sweet comfort. It looks like TikTok agrees: Several iterations of the cloud slide—a lightweight, marshmallow-like sandal—have gone viral. If you’ve yet to snag your own pair, you’re in…
Think for a minute about the little bumps on your tongue. You probably saw a diagram of those taste bud arrangements once in a biology textbook — sweet sensors at the tip, salty on either side, sour behind them, bitter in the back. But the idea that specific tastes are confined to certain areas of…
The pizza that solved my pizza problems I recently solved a pizza conundrum that had been plaguing my family. Pizza night at our house has always forced us to choose between an excellent but slow-rising dough that takes days to proof, or the instant gratification of a defrosted ball of store-bought. The marshmallow test, but…
For years I had been hearing about the island of Pantelleria, the craggy, hard-to-get-to Eden with middle-of-nowhere tranquillity that sits 89 miles southwest of the island of Sicily and about 50 miles east of Tunisia. Luca Guadagnino’s 2015 film “A Bigger Splash” painted a seductive idyll of mud baths, romantic ruins and secluded swimming coves.…
My boyfriend and I have been dating for nearly a year. It’s going really well! But his close-knit group of friends is not welcoming to me. They are all bilingual, and when they hang out together, they speak Spanish. I am studying Spanish, but when people speak quickly or use slang, I can’t follow the…
Many weeks before tomato seedlings can be safely transplanted outside — or almost any freshly seed-sown vegetables dare break the surface of the slowly warming soil — harvest is underway in John Forti’s Maine garden. When you grow a range of perennial edibles, you have what Mr. Forti calls “the shoulder seasons” covered, and then…
The summer after my freshman year of college, I bused tables at a restaurant by the water in St. Augustine, Fla. Parched and sticky with sweat, I watched one particular salad — huge, geometric chunks of watermelon and feta, stacked on a plate with basil — go to nearly every table. I cleared those plates,…
Some influencers say that doing so can offer benefits. We looked at the evidence.