There is nothing like a good cup of coffee. In fact, that good cup of coffee could be one of the most productive ways to get your day started. It’ll provide you with the energy and get and go that you need to get moving. However, this is only the case if you can whip…
Everything you love about your neighborhood bar — the ambience, the crowds, the music, the free-flowing alcohol — makes it the ideal place to catch Covid-19. Around the country, bars are becoming a common source of coronavirus outbreaks. In Louisiana, at least 100 people tested positive for the virus after visiting bars in the Tigerland…
When it’s too hot to cook, there’s a long, vast tradition of chilled soups to save the day. Be they gazpacho, borscht, shav or a creamy, yogurt-based cucumber soup seasoned with garlic and herbs, there are few summer lunches as cooling and satisfying. To make enough cucumber-yogurt soup for three or four, cut a pound…
Each and every one of us has their own unique smell, and this is normal. But sometimes intense smells become a problem. What can cause a bad body smell? You are experiencing a hormonal failure Sweat glands are most active during the teenage period, and this is not surprising: the body is changing and growing…
Every summer season, shorts become a must-have, but this year stylists offer to abandon the usual denim mini-shorts and choose loose Bermuda shorts. Elongated shorts have been shown in the spring-summer collections of Bottega Veneta, Chanel, Max Mara, and others, and a little later they appeared in the wardrobes of street style stars. Those who…
By the year 2020 the humankind has traversed a long way, but it appears we are not yet civilized enough to eliminate discrimination (and even murders!) based on people’s skin color. A wide range of diverse outbreaks of racism, recently spurred on by tragic occurrences involving Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Ahmaud Arbery, deaths that…
Every year at about this point in the growing season, Alley Swiss has a ritual he performs. It’s one that humans have done for thousands of years, as they cultivated one of our oldest, most beloved food crops. Mr. Swiss, an organic farmer, walks out into his garlic field in the Okanogan Valley of north-central…
On Monday, I had lunch at Veselka in the East Village. Normally I wouldn’t bother you with this fact. I’ve done the same thing at least a hundred times before. But this lunch, I’m pretty sure, I’ll remember for the rest of my life. It was the first restaurant food I’ve had since March that…
Headliner Winner Daniel Eddy, who worked as a chef at Daniel Rose’s Spring restaurant in Paris, Rebelle in Manhattan and Walnut Street Café in Philadelphia, is now based in his neighborhood, Park Slope, Brooklyn. His all-day establishment serves breads and breakfast pastries (French-style viennoiseries) in the morning and sandwiches at lunchtime and in the late…
Classic stadium food like garlic fries, Dippin’ Dots and pump-cheese nachos are touchstones of something that feels heartbreakingly far away this summer: the thrill of being part of a huge crowd sharing a singular experience. Within the pantheon of concessions sidelined by the pandemic, ballpark peanuts stand out. Roasted in their shells and tossed into…