The Abruzzo region of eastern central Italy, on the Adriatic coast, is home to Montepulciano d’Abruzzo, a popular red wine that paradoxically has been historically little known and rarely very good. Its popularity owed to one main factor: It was a cheap wine that was usually good enough. The last decade in the region, though,…
During a trip to the grocery store this week, I was stopped in my tracks by my one true harbinger of warmer days to come: the arrival of ranunculus, a darling of spring and my favorite blooms, in the floral section. It is also, coincidentally, “false spring” here in New York, with temperatures tipping into…
Vaccines for respiratory syncytial virus may have caused a few cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome, a rare neurological condition, federal health officials said on Thursday. The numbers were small, on the order of two cases per 100,000 vaccinated people or fewer, and much more data is needed to pin down the risk, the officials said. In…
Why It Matters: Vaccines often arrive too late to stamp out outbreaks. Public health response to outbreaks often relies heavily on vaccines and treatments, but that underestimates the importance of other measures, said Miguel Paredes, lead author of the new study and an epidemiologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle. Although the Food…
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Perhaps you, too, know the notorious “Madame X”? She of the aquiline profile, alabaster skin and plunging black neckline has recently been transported to Tate Britain, in London, for the second stop of “Sargent and Fashion” (through July 7), which debuted at the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, last fall. The retrospective brings together over…
Tom Sandoval, a star of “Vanderpump Rules,” has shared a lot in the decade that he has appeared on that reality TV show, the 11th season of which began airing on Bravo in January. But in a recent interview with The New York Times Magazine, Mr. Sandoval, 41, said things that surprised even people who…
El día de Navidad, Catalina, princesa de Gales, asistió al servicio religioso en la iglesia de Santa María Magdalena en Sandringham, Norfolk, Inglaterra, vestida de azul real de pies a cabeza. Acompañó a su esposo, el príncipe Guillermo, y a sus tres hijos, el príncipe Jorge, la princesa Carlota y el príncipe Luis, como había…
Guy Alexandre, a Belgian transplant surgeon who in the 1960s risked professional censure by removing kidneys from brain-dead patients whose hearts were still beating — a procedure that greatly improved organ viability while challenging the medical definition of death itself — died on Feb. 14 at his home in Brussels. He was 89. His son,…
One of the best perks of being the newsletter editor for New York Times Cooking is the digging I do through our vast recipe archive. I find fan favorites that are new to me (nice to meet you, Pierre Franey’s turkey chili), see familiar friends (always a pleasure, kale sauce pasta) and address my own…