LONDON — As “Downton Abbey” moves from the television screen to movie theaters, the real-life setting of the period drama is bracing for a renewed surge of interest. Highclere Castle, the grand English country house in Hampshire that is used as the fictional home of the Crawley family, has drawn hundreds of thousands of paying…
By the time most of the women at the breast cancer support group meeting had introduced themselves, I realized mine was far from the saddest story in the room. Of the dozen women, four wore colorful scarves or cute slouchy knitted hats to cover their bald heads. “Hi everyone. My name is Jen. I’m 45,…
The 2015 merger between Kraft and Heinz created one of the largest food companies in the world. It had $28 billion in combined annual revenues and controlled dozens of food and beverage brands that for generations were staples of American households, including Heinz ketchup, Kraft cheese, Oscar Mayer meats and Planters nuts. These days, however,…
The question is often whispered, the questioners sheepish. But increasingly, parents at the Central Park playground where Dr. Elizabeth A. Comen takes her young children have been asking her: “Do you vaccinate your kids?” Dr. Comen, an oncologist who has treated patients for cancers related to the human papillomavirus that a vaccine can now prevent,…
Last night’s Oktoberfest party went late, and your brain now feels as fragile as antique pottery on a bumpy flight. So you reach for an “anti-hangover” supplement and grumble about how sick you feel. On Monday, a German court, ruling on claims made by a company that sells such supplements, defined a hangover like that…
[Like the Science Times page on Facebook. | Sign up for the Science Times newsletter.] In the urgent struggle to stop the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo, doctors are rolling out powerful vaccines and lifesaving antiviral drugs, but the year-old outbreak, mired in violence among warring militias, is now caught between expert…
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Home cooks should know that about the best way to improve almost any savory dish, and many sweet ones, too, is to add acid — even just a smidgen from citrus or vinegar. These days balsamic (good, bad and indifferent) usually gets the nod, but in my pantry the workhorse when I want acidity tempered…
Bobby Flay, the popular chef, restaurateur and television personality, calls his latest book, “Bobby at Home,” his most meaningful because it covers the dishes he likes to cook and serve in his New York apartment and his house in the Hamptons. It offers a solid repertory for mostly casual home cooking any time, if you…
It was 25 years ago that Mark Isreal first began frying doughnuts on the Lower East Side at his Doughnut Plant. And he has spent that last six of those years, in between opening new outlets, trying to perfect a sourdough doughnut. “It has been a real challenge,” he said, “but I wanted to do…