The contestants warmed up with stretches and squats in front of City Hall, carefully repositioned croissants and glasses on their trays and tightened their aprons as pop music blared from loudspeakers. Then, they were off. On Sunday, for the first time in over a decade, Paris revived a tradition: an annual race of cafe and…
Good morning. If you make biscuits (above) today — and you ought to — they ought to be terrific. But if you make biscuits today and do so again next weekend and the weekend after and the weekend after that, they will be terrific, the best biscuits ever. This is a matter of practice related…
In February, in vitro fertilization, or I.V.F., was thrown into the spotlight when the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos in the state should be considered children. The decision led to a pause on I.V.F. procedures in parts of the state, and even a pause on shipping embryos out of state, to avoid potential…
Most people, study after study shows, don’t take the medicines prescribed for them. It doesn’t matter what they are — statins, high blood pressure drugs, drugs to lower blood sugar, asthma drugs. Either patients never start taking them, or they stop. It’s a problem that doctors call nonadherence — the common human tendency to resist…
She asked for space after her cancer diagnosis, but cancer is a series of intrusions for any patient. And when Catherine agreed to marry a future king, her body ceased to be her own.
I slept poorly the night before we went to the center of the world. Three a.m. found me wide-awake in my parents’ house in Accra. My parents had been slowly building this house for more than half my life. Tonight was the first time in over a decade that we had all slept under the…
I started buying eggs by the 30-pack in quarantine and never stopped. If there’s eggs in the fridge, I can put dinner on the table: baked eggs, eggs kejriwal, kimchi eggs, romesco eggs. (For context, there’s only two of us in this household. We just really love eggs.) “Everyone loves a shakshuka moment” was more…
Beautiful people are not spared the indignities of overextended joints, which is how the supermodel Gisele Bündchen found herself staring down the barrel of two shoulder surgeries in 2019 and 2020. At the time, Ms. Bündchen was living in Boston with the N.F.L. quarterback Tom Brady, then her husband, still recovering from an operation on…
Last year, Tracy McCubbin — who has been a professional declutterer for two decades and lives by the motto “don’t put it down, put it away” — married a man she described as “very messy.” Both acknowledged the “cosmic joke” of their unlikely pairing. Ms. McCubbin put blue painter’s tape on every drawer and cupboard…
En junio, mi marido y yo descubrimos que esperábamos un bebé. Sería el tercero que perderíamos en los últimos dos años. La llamo bebé, aunque sé que era un embrión: el latido de su corazón se quedó en silencio a las seis semanas y dos días. La llamo bebé porque puedo sentir su peso en…