Hello from the road! I’m scouting for part of our annual national restaurant list, eating nonstop at a slew of new-to-me places. As inspiring and fun as this is — and wow is it ever — it can also be a little overwhelming. Trips like these make me miss the simple meals I cook in…
When I called the chef and pitmaster Rodney Scott first thing in the morning for an interview, he asked if he could put me on hold: He was taking coffee to the crew at one of his restaurants, Rodney Scott’s Whole Hog BBQ, in Charleston, S.C. Giving back, saying thank you with gestures like this,…
A few years ago, my in-laws gave our oldest child and another grandchild generous monetary gifts when they turned 13 in the same year. The other grandchild had a bar mitzvah that year, but we’re not religious so our child did not. Still, they both received checks. Our second child turned 13 two years ago,…
In “Challengers,” Zendaya plays a tennis star named Tashi Duncan. Her clothes are central to her identity; the character is sponsored by Adidas and costumed in sporty-and-rich outfits by the designer Jonathan Anderson. “She’ll have a fashion line,” one of Tashi’s suitors predicts to another in the trailer. “She is going to turn her whole…
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The chef Samin Nosrat lives by the idea that food is love. Her Netflix series, “Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat,” and the James Beard Award-winning cookbook that inspired it, were about using food to build community and forge connections. Since then, all of her creative projects and collaborations have focused on inspiring people to cook, and…
Kristi Noem, the governor of South Dakota, is readying for her national close-up. How else to interpret her recent controversial trip to Texas to “fix” her smile, documented in a lengthy video? You know, the one she posted on X, Facebook and Instagram, singing the praises of Smile Texas, the cosmetic dental clinic that remedied…
My first view of Monterey Bay on California’s Central Coast was thrilling — a raft of 40-something sea otters — and free. The next time I would get close to them, at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, it cost nearly $60. That split between free access to outdoor wonders and investment-grade attractions epitomized my experience in…
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. As a reporter covering psychedelic medicine for the Health and Science desk at The New York Times, the drugs that often command my attention are familiar to any veteran psychonaut: ketamine; LSD; psilocybin, or “magic…
Incluso en el contexto de la tendencia de no usar pantalones que prevalece ahora en las pasarelas y en algunos círculos de celebridades, así como la moda de la vestimenta temática en los estrenos de cine, los atuendos de Kristen Stewart durante su gira de prensa para Sangre en los labios han destacado. Pocas veces…