Helen Marie Williams was born on Sept. 16, 1935, in Burlington County, N.J., and grew up in East Riverton, a Delaware River town about 15 miles northeast of Philadelphia. Her father, Ellis L. Williams, was a chauffeur; her mother, Helen (Blackstone) Williams, a homemaker. After high school, Helen found a job as an assistant at…
The Context Holiday retail sales are a closely watched measure of the health of the U.S. consumer and often the most lucrative time of the year for major retailers. Even in tough financial times, the question is not whether Americans will spend during the holidays, but how much. As the Federal Reserve has worked to…
At the home of the cookbook author Palak Patel, the days leading up to Diwali are spent cleaning her kitchen and preparing the numerous snacks and mithai, or sweets, they’ll deliver to friends and family for the South Asian festival of light. Her mother, Mala Patel, fries dried snacks, like Mathia, to fill giant frosting…
Wine is made by fermenting grapes or other fruit, although apple and pear wines are distinctive enough to have earned their own categories, cider and perry. But a growing number of producers are blurring the styles, blending grape wines and ciders or fermenting grapes and other fruit together, with remarkable delicious results. Some of these…
Mushroom recipes for dark nights I tend to commute home on autopilot, taking in very little around me as I zone out to music so loud that my Health app insists I turn it down. So when I emerged from the subway the other day just before 6 p.m., I was startled by what I…
Who: Fernando Jorge and Sotheby’s What: Exclusive high jewelry collection Where: Online at sothebys.com and at Sotheby’s New York Why: Fernando Jorge has surged onto the global jewelry scene in recent years, and his traveling exhibition with Sotheby’s might as well be his victory lap. Beginning November 1 in NYC, the auction house will unveil…
We’re often told to focus on the positive. But new research shows a healthy dose of anger can be motivating.
Our rave-reviewed, five-star Caesar salad that just happens to be vegan By The New York Times Cooking It’s that time of year when, inevitably, you will be asked to bring a salad to a gathering. You could hardly do better than this reader-favorite vegan Caesar salad with crispy chickpeas, a brilliant recipe by Becky Hughes.…
“We’ll walk off the ice, and they’ll go, ‘Why did you play that shot?’” Mr. Sargon, 30, said. They nitpick because they care. That became clear to Mr. Sargon a few weeks ago when he joined Mr. Hood at a curling tournament in Okotoks, about 25 miles south of Calgary. As soon as their match…
“If you follow me on Instagram, you thought this book was going to be written in emojis, didn’t you?” Britney Spears asks at the end of her memoir, “The Woman in Me.” She has said that completing the recently published book — an account of her journey from Louisiana to the top of the pop…