At Fort Bragg, soldiers who have gotten their coronavirus vaccines can go to a gym where no masks are required, with no limits on who can work out together. Treadmills are on and zipping, unlike those in 13 other gyms where unvaccinated troops can’t use the machines, everyone must mask up and restrictions remain on…
Leche de soya: La leche de soya (o soja), enriquecida con calcio y vitaminas A y D, es la única leche no láctea comparable a la de vaca en cuanto a equilibrio de nutrientes, según las directrices dietéticas. Una taza tiene seis gramos de proteínas, 105 calorías y aproximadamente un 89 por ciento menos de…
At Petite Pump Room, a waterfront restaurant in Charlotte Amalie on the island of St. Thomas, lunchtime usually finds locals and visitors filling the tables and bar, taking in the island’s hills and watching seaplanes take off and land in the harbor from nearby St. Croix. Since 1970, the Petite Pump Room has been a…
Kermit Lynch’s seminal work, “Adventures on the Wine Route,” is just that sort of book. First published in 1988, the book chronicles the travels through France of Mr. Lynch, an American wine importer, as he visits growers and producers. It seems as fresh and thought-provoking today as it was when I first read it decades…
LONDON — Comfort food is hard to pin down. It’s as slippery as noodles, with any attempt to characterize it often countered by an exception. Cambridge Dictionary defines it as “the type of food that people eat when they are sad or worried, often sweet food or food that people ate as children.” I connect…
For people outside of the food world, what does the Willows represent? The Willows is part of this very aspirational dining trend that has really taken over in the last 10 or 15 years. It is connected with lists and awards that have become increasingly important. There are these high-end global destinations that people travel…
Welcome. I’m ready for the living room to be the living room again, and not the living/working/exercising/languishing room it’s been for the past 14 months. We’ve been demanding a lot of our rooms during the pandemic, stretching them to accommodate activities usually assigned to schools, gyms, movie theaters and offices. The rooms have complied, groaning…
When Jennifer Hwa Dobbertin was small, she roamed her parents’ restaurant on Fredericksburg Road in San Antonio, Texas, cadging French fries from the diners. Her mom, Nancy Collet, was born in Taiwan and immigrated to the city on the arm of an American serviceman she later divorced. Collet cooked in the kitchen of Golden Wok,…
Good morning. The robins are back on the ground now, bob-bob-bobbin’ around for worms and grubs, basically solo instead of packed tight up high in the trees, a sure sign of true spring. Folks with outdoor access are firing up their grills, everyone’s cooking asparagus, the hothouse tomatoes at the market are fat and blood-red.…
At the H Mart on Broadway at 110th Street in Manhattan, the lights are bright on the singo pears, round as apples and kept snug in white mesh, so their skin won’t bruise. Here are radishes in hot pink and winter white, gnarled ginseng grown in Wisconsin, broad perilla leaves with notched edges, and almost…