Dr. Sarah Santucci and Kevin Zhang have always shared a love of plants. The pair met when Dr. Santucci stopped by the table for Mr. Zhang’s botany club at Princeton in 2013, when she was a freshman there, and he a sophomore. She impressed him with her ability to identify species on sight. “I was…
Around Christmas and New Year’s, my husband and I enjoy watching films from the 1930s and ’40s. I always admire the women’s glamorous loungewear, especially Myrna Loy as Nora Charles in the “Thin Man” movies. But every place I look for loungewear, the offerings are either decidedly un-glam jersey garments, or more luxe looking satin…
“The truth of the matter is industry develops drugs — you have to work with industry. The issue is disclosure in publication,” said Ellen V. Sigal, the founder and chairwoman of the nonprofit Friends of Cancer Research, which accepts industry funding. “Rob has done many, many clinical trials with industry, but he has not been…
These restorative exercises can help you feel better throughout the day.
In the decade I spent working in restaurant kitchens, I rarely felt an emotional connection with the food I was cooking. This feeling of distance from the food I encountered here in the United States began almost as soon as I arrived from Nigeria as a young college student. Very few dishes I ate growing…
For Kevin Renn, the writer of this week’s Modern Love essay, being a 6-foot-tall Black male nanny came with its challenges. But nothing could prepare him for the moment he would have to walk away from the tiny companion who stole his heart. [Like this newsletter? Sign up to receive it in your inbox.] We…
Dries: Rafael Pavarotti; AZ Factory: Peter White; Getty Images; Courtesy of the brands. Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. Much nostalgic hay has been made of the revival of Y2K’s and the early aughts’s most fun—or, depending on your perspective, fearsome—trends. From low-rise jeans to velour sweatsuits…
Can we talk about my colleague Yewande Komolafe for a minute? Her recipes are superb, precisely choreographed dances of flavor and texture. The honey-glazed chicken below is a great example, a five-star recipe that people are loving. I’m thinking of Yewande right now not only because of that chicken, but for her buttery new cornbread…
In his poem “Digging,” the Irish poet Seamus Heaney describes the sensation of holding potatoes as “loving their cool hardness in our hands.” That “cool hardness” is the start to a proper mash, which should end with potatoes that taste deeply of themselves but avoid becoming pasty. To preserve those tastes, I decided to try…
Chapter 1: This job is hard. Chapter 2: Leaving it is harder.