My brother, in his 50s, was a successful professional for many years. He was laid off from his job four years ago and has been unable to find regular employment since then. He has now depleted his savings. He says it’s challenging to find work in his field as an older person, so I suggested…
Annie Wu Henry hasn’t gotten a notification on her phone in two years. Calls go straight to voice mail. Apps vibrate their updates into the ether. Texts pile up silently. Same with emails. They have to wait until she decides to look at her device next. That’s because of Do Not Disturb mode, a phone…
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The act of triple-dipping goes back to my early years. Three shallow bowls: one with flour, another with beaten egg, the third with breadcrumbs. It’s as familiar as the 1970s brown Formica kitchen counter and the avocado-green fridge doors, with their faux-wood handles that would inevitably be smudged with sticky flour paste as I reached…
The New York-based private chef Yann Nury has a simple strategy for transforming unadorned produce into showstopping canapés. “It’s all about finding the most unique vegetable,” says the 40-year-old Frenchman, “and making it a star.” At the events he caters for clients, shiny orange Sungold tomatoes masquerade as gumballs in Austrian crystal candy dishes; vivid…
“Give this band a name!!” the Instagram caption read. The video showed four bright pink and orange shrimp, antennae seeming to wave as they spun around and bobbed up-and-down to a chucklesome version of the “Star Wars” cantina song. One played a melodica; another, a banjo; a hand can be seen cranking the wooden gears…
“The bag, it carries your things and carries your secrets,” Priscila Alexandre Spring said. The 43-year-old creative director of leather goods at Hermès sat in her office in Pantin, just outside of Paris, explaining what she liked about designing bags — in particular, the relationship between “your private life and your exterior life.” Ms. Alexandre…
Can delicate handblown glass ever have a truly practical application? The British jewelry designer Solange Azagury-Partridge, known for her enameled silver Hotlips ring, a piece that is in the jewelry collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, has an answer. Five answers, actually. In a collaboration with Rebecca Marks of Green Wolf Lighting, Ms. Azagury-Partridge…
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New York Times readers share the moment they realized Covid would change the world.