The Southern California restaurateur Kwini Reed has spent years tying herself — and her business model — in knots trying to meet the competing needs of her customers and her staff. Sometimes it seems like everything from state law to inflation is conspiring to force her to charge $35 for a hamburger, which Ms. Reed…
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Just a few months after the pandemic sent Americans indoors, Mia Graber received a lidded nonstick skillet the color of spruce pine needles, complete with a steamer basket and a wooden spatula on the handle, as a gift from her husband. “I was immediately like, ‘Oh, this is the pan I had been seeing all…
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A fines del año pasado, Zackary Smigel, un creador de contenidos en YouTube, hizo un video titulado “¿Por qué YouTube es así?”. Se refería a que la plataforma estaba repleta de videos con títulos sensacionalistas, contenidos muy editados e imágenes en miniatura muy llamativas, a menudo con la cara emotiva de una persona. Una manera…
My divorce, though comparatively gentle and humane, still left me shattered, bone-tired and distrustful. Throughout our 12-year marriage, I felt like I had been playing the role of a high-society Hollywood wife and mother, and I no longer knew who I really was. The combination of a domineering stepfather (who was overly concerned with propriety)…
Veronica Mae McCracken and Mitchell Henry Karr first met in May 2014 on her first day at the Minneapolis architecture and design firm MSR Design, where she works as an interior designer and he as an architect. The two were dating other people at the time. It wasn’t until the annual Fusion Fashion Show hosted…
Dominique Isabel Pascale Crenn receives countless DMs on Instagram from people trying to get a table at her San Francisco restaurant, Atelier Crenn. She doesn’t usually respond. But when Maria Elaina Bello sent her a DM in April 2018, the message resonated with her. Lorraine Silvera, a friend of Ms. Bello’s and a fellow food…
Nora Patrice O’Neill and Gabriel Grand had only been dating a couple of months when her twin brother, Patrick, posed a jaw-dropping question. “Gabe, when are you going to marry my sister?” he asked over dinner with Ms. O’Neill’s parents in November 2014 at a now-closed French restaurant during Harvard’s freshman family weekend. After a…
A committee of experts that advises the Food and Drug Administration voted by large majorities on Thursday that a new blood test to screen people for colon and rectal cancers was safe and effective, and that its benefits outweighed its risks. But the group cautioned that the blood test had limitations and added that they…