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The latest runway fashions, stunning interiors, exotic destinations, peeks into the creative process and other dispatches from the crossroads of culture and style. The latest runway fashions, stunning interiors, exotic destinations, peeks into the creative process and other dispatches from the crossroads of culture and style.

Thanksgiving 911

Good morning. My phone will start chirping tomorrow morning and won’t let up all day, texts coming in from family, friends, people I haven’t seen since eighth grade, all of them asking the same question and all of them getting the same answer: 165. That’s the minimum internal temperature the United States Department of Agriculture’s…

Why You Should Take a Nap on Thanksgiving

Like many Americans, the chef Nicole Pederson enjoys stretching out on the couch after the turkey and stuffing have been cleared, closing her eyes and losing consciousness for a short time. But 2012 was when she proved she was no ordinary Thanksgiving napper. She had opened a new restaurant that fall in Evanston, Ill. By…

6 Steps to a Great Thanksgiving Nap

Scientists have debunked the theory that Thanksgiving naps are caused solely by a rush of tryptophan, an amino acid in turkey and other poultry. Most agree that the towering heaps of carbohydrates eaten with the turkey are more likely to induce sleep. But what if we’ve been looking at the question the wrong way? What…