Good morning. Welcome to fall. I’m delighted to introduce you today to a new contributor to The New York Times and NYT Cooking, J. Kenji López-Alt. Kenji’s a mad scientist chef and home cook and restaurateur who has for years championed a style of developing recipes that is rooted in testing, testing and yet more…
With a toddler at home, I look for any way I can to save time during meal prep. When I boil eggs, I boil a dozen at a time, storing whatever we don’t immediately eat in the refrigerator. By using a slotted spoon to remove eggs from the pot at different times, I can catch…
In the casual opinion of most Americans, I am an old man, and therefore of little account, past my best, fading in a pathetic diminuendo while flashing his AARP card, a gringo in his degringolade. Naturally, I am insulted by this, but out of pride I don’t let my indignation show. My work is my…
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. Bill Cunningham did not operate the same way other Times photographers did. He marched to his own drummer, which made gathering and sorting through images for a new book covering five decades of his iconic…
There are many good reasons to buy a swivel chair — in particular, the ease of movement. But Ghislaine Viñas, an interior designer in New York who frequently uses them in her projects, thinks one of the best is the sense of play they create. “They’re fun,” she said. “I’ve put them in family lofts…
“It doesn’t mean that the vast majority of the care Medicare purchases is linked to actual value,” said Sherry Glied, a health economist, and dean and professor at the Wagner School of Public Service at N.Y.U. “We don’t even know what we mean by value. How do you pay for something when you don’t know…
Pancreatic cancer, which will be diagnosed in about 56,770 people in the United States this year, is the only cancer with a rising mortality rate through 2014, although five-year survival has begun to inch up, from 8 percent to 9 percent by 2016. It remains the nation’s third leading cause of cancer deaths, after cancers…
Carl Ruiz, a television celebrity chef and restaurateur, has died, his Manhattan restaurant La Cubana said on social media on Sunday. He was 44. Mr. Ruiz made frequent appearances on the Food Network as a competitive chef and celebrity judge. He opened restaurants around the world, his most recent being La Cubana, which opened in…
Highlights from the red carpet: Ava DuVernay brought the Central Park Five as her dates. ImageThe Netflix mini-series “When They See Us,” about the Central Park Five, was nominated for 16 Emmys.CreditFrazer Harrison/Getty Images The director Ava DuVernay brought the Central Park Five as her dates. The real life stories of Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson,…
In 2011, Maisie Williams made her professional acting debut as Arya Stark on Game of Thrones. Since then, we’ve watched Williams grow not just into an actress beloved by pretty much everyone (including Drake), but someone to watch on the red carpet as well. In the past she’s worn Coach, Thom Browne, and Miu Miu,…