Before I hop into the questions, a special thanks to my colleague Becky Hughes for filling in last week. I feel well rested and energized to answer another round of reader questions. Today we have a newbie looking to try different cuisines, a visitor seeking great Cantonese and a diner who wants to eat in…
A federal judge has ruled that the nation’s three largest drug distributors cannot be held liable for the opioid epidemic in one of the most ravaged counties in the country — a place where 81 million prescription painkillers were shipped over eight years to a population of less than 100,000. Judge David A. Faber of…
My Advice If you decide to flirt with a stranger by sliding into his Twitter DMs, brew a cup of tea first. Then, sit. Sip the tea. Breathe deeply. Allow yourself to swell with giddiness. Don’t charge forward, rushing with new messages, just because you cannot tolerate the vulnerability of reaching out. That will result…
Sleep is now considered an essential factor in good heart health.
Anna Nibley Baker, a mother of four in Salt Lake City, is reasonably certain that she and her husband are done building their family. Yet for eight years, since the birth of her last child, conceived through in vitro fertilization, she has thought tenderly of the couple’s three remaining embryos, frozen and stored at a…
The legend goes like this: In the 1970s, Atlanta native Paula Wallace, then an elementary school teacher, dreamed of a college in the south that would cater to students who wanted careers in the arts. A decade earlier, she’d cast about for a school like that for herself—one that would apply the same sort of…
There’s no end of bagel stores across New York but for bialys, one name stands out: Kossar’s Bagels & Bialys. It’s been a fixture on the Lower East Side since 1936, first as Mirsky and Kossar’s Bakery, then, as of 1953, just Kossar’s. Now the company is branching into other neighborhoods, first with a store…
Naâma Laufer and Luis Correia, who import wines from Mr. Correia’s native Portugal, started a second company, My Portuguese Market, last year, selling handcrafted goods from Portugal. They have just introduced a lemon- and sea salt-scented, sardine-shaped soap on a rough cord. It’s ideal for hands that have been working with seafood, garlic and onions,…
In early spring, Jake Dickson of Dickson’s Farmstand Meats created a salumi bar at his Chelsea Market store using locally raised meats. The specialties available on their site now include jerky for the trail and salami for picnics, or summer snacking. The company makes 10 or so salumi in flavors like tres chiles, cacio e…
Xiao Chi Jie, a Chinese street food restaurant in Seattle owned by Caleb Wang and Jen Liao, turned to frozen takeout when the pandemic began. They specialized in soup dumplings, which they began shipping nationally in late 2020. Now they have introduced shao kao skewers with nicely spiced marinated boneless beef, lamb and chicken to…