Good morning. Hoppin’ John (above) is a dish of the South Carolina low country, peas and rice cooked together and often served on New Year’s Day as a wish for a prosperous, lucky future. (The peas are meant to represent coins. Some cooks throw a dime into the pot or place the coin under one…
In the last few months, Beth Fletcher, a 39-year-old photographer in Derbyshire, England, built a small following on TikTok by recapping and analyzing the British reality show “I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!” When the latest season ended in early December, Ms. Fletcher was at a loss for content because, she said,…
Hasta donde saben los expertos, la JN.1 no parece causar enfermedad grave en la mayoría de las personas, aunque hasta un caso leve puede hacerte sentir “bastante mal durante tres o cuatro días”, señaló Schaffner. Los síntomas de una infección por JN.1 son similares a los que causaban las variantes anteriores de covid, pues incluyen…
It’s Saturday morning, and 2024 is two sleeps away. There are two ways to approach this last weekend of the year: party hearty, or quiet cozy. Either plan is excellent, and today’s newsletter is dedicated to meals that are perfectly suited for whichever type of New Year’s weekend you’d like. First up is Lidey Heuck’s…
Alrededor de las 10:30 p. m. de un miércoles reciente, en un parque de patinaje en el centro de la ciudad, debajo de la Interestatal 95 en Miami, cuatro luchadoras entraron al cuadrilátero: Bingo, Midnight Player, Rina Yamashita y Stray Cat. Más de 1000 personas, incluidos hombres con gorras de béisbol y camisetas de los…
The artist Eduardo Kac was at his New York gallery the other day to show a reporter his work: a hologram encoded on a sliver of glass resting inside a tiny metal case. This little package is the capstone of Kac’s career to date — an artifact he created in 1986 that is now, finally,…
The knot in my stomach tightens. I realize that in every experience with racism, I am never given the benefit of the doubt. “No,” I say, “I don’t think so.” When I get back to my dorm room, I decide to put the incident away. And when I process what happened a few days later,…
Este ensayo forma parte de un proyecto de Modern Love sobre la intersección entre dinero y relaciones. A mediados de mis veinte, estaba al borde de la bancarrota. No es que me costaba trabajo pagar el recibo de la electricidad a fin de mes, sino que constantemente hacía números en mi cabeza para que me…
To most of this bakery’s millions of devotees, the idea that its “Steak Bake” could be “lifted” lies somewhere between folly and heresy. It brings diced beef, gravy and crisp puff pastry together in perfect harmony. It cannot be improved, or ameliorated, or heightened. It has already attained its highest form. Its popularity attests to…
Background Lawmakers passed the measure earlier in December. Those in favor of the bill argued that parents are pressured by doctors to sign off on transition care treatments for their children. The bill’s sponsor, Representative Gary Click, said parents are “being manipulated by the physicians.’’ In addition to banning transition care for minors, the bill…