When, at 22, the jewelry designer Beth Bugdaycay traveled to Istanbul to meet her new mother-in-law, she arrived with a request: that her husband’s mother teach her a few family dishes. “I think sharing a family recipe with another person is very personal,” says Beth, now 47, who co-founded the jewelry company Foundrae with her…
The New York Genome Center awarded six cancer research grants this week as part of an initiative examining the role of race and ethnicity in major types of cancer. The projects will investigate a variety of cancers including pancreatic, colorectal and endometrial cancer in African-Americans; lung cancer in Asian-American patients; breast and prostate cancer in…
We all wish to be as fearless and unbothered as Rihanna carrying a glass of wine (sometimes even a bottle) out of restaurants, hotels, and on vacation. But if you can’t muster up the cajones to pull it off, everyone’s favorite boxed wine company Franzia just created the perfect happy medium: a wine-dispensing backpack. “Here…
If you’ve been admiring a certain someone from afar, social media has made it incredibly easy to find out almost anything about them. After just a few minutes of scrolling, an expert-level lurker can dig up everything from their crush’s favorite food to the details of their last relationship. Jared Wood, who taught English abroad…
In November 2018, Jordan Eller got out her backpack, one of her favorite possessions, and traveled with a few friends to Koh Phi Phi, an island in Thailand. Ms. Eller, 25, lives in Denver and is a transportation-engineer-in-training at HDR, an engineering and architectural firm where she helps design a variety of structures like highway…
Here we are again at summer’s end, and, if ever there is a time of year to enjoy fresh produce in its glorious prime, it is now. Farmers’ markets are full of gorgeous summer fruits and vegetables — fragrant, ripe and sweet. It hasn’t been on a refrigerated truck from across the continent. Picked mere…
For the occasional shrimp eater, it can be hard to get past the scampi trap. After all, if you’re not cooking shrimp very often, why stray from it? With its buttery, garlicky, wine-kissed sauce, shrimp scampi is arguably the most perfect way to savor the crustaceans. But, as excellent as the combination of shrimp, butter…
David M. BenettGetty Images Kerby Jean-Raymond and Kering are looking to empower the next generation of innovators. Today, the founder of New York fashion label Pyer Moss and the French luxury conglomerate unveiled the next phase of their Your Friends in New York (YFINY) partnership, a platform that launched quietly earlier this year when Jean-Raymond…
During my childhood years, my family’s kitchen cabinets used to be lousy with the sorts of commemorative glassware you’d get at Burger King or McDonald’s — a Luke Skywalker here, a Snoopy there. These were part of huge global marketing pushes for creative projects being milked for every last ounce of intellectual property, but also…
Vanessa Phillips was sold on a two-bedroom apartment at One Hundred Barclay, a luxury condo conversion in TriBeCa, because of the enviable amenity space she saw when she visited the building in February. The Ralph Walker-designed Art Deco tower has two landscaped terraces, a media room, music rooms, a wine lounge, a billiards room and…