Dear Tripped Up, My travel companion and I booked a river cruise and tour to Portugal and Spain for this past July with Vantage Deluxe World Travel. We paid in full, and bought insurance against trip interruption or cancellation through Vantage from TripMate. About three months before departure, Vantage notified us the trip had been…
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Courtesy of retailers Ah, I love love. Even more so, I love celebrating those milestones, whether my own or someone else’s (I mean, your girl loves a solid reason to wear a cute wedding guest dress, but I digress). Perhaps traditional vows have been exchanged in front of loved ones, or maybe not. Regardless, a…
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Courtesy of Everlane Sound the alarm, people! Everlane just restocked its sale section. In case you’ve been living under a rock—one without affordable cashmere or clean silk—the direct-to-consumer darling is all about creating ethically-conscious essentials for a fair, transparent rate. And, though Everlane’s pieces are reasonably priced on their own, the brand’s sale section offers…
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“Brevity is the soul of wit,” wrote William Shakespeare, and the same could be said of a good recipe. Weekend cooking projects and three-hour braises are all well and good, but an exceedingly delicious meal — the sort that makes you do a little chair dance when you take your first bite — ready in…
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Howdy, I’m Tanya, a New York Times Cooking editor and Emily’s gracious understudy this week. You should know that there are a few hills I’d die on: The “Star Wars” prequels weren’t as bad as everyone said they were, the best s’mores are deeply charred and a little salty, and we should all be making…
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Because of my daughter’s braces, our family’s summer corn-on-the-cob-palooza has been temporarily nixed. Corn is still on the menu — thank goodness — but the kernels need to be cut off the cob, lest any gnawing ravage the delicate infrastructure of modern orthodontics. The upside to all this is that my corn kernel repertory has…
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WASHINGTON — Critics of the climate change, health and tax law enacted this week have seized on a provision addressing high drug prices to make inaccurate claims. The law fulfilled a long-held goal of Democrats: to empower the federal government to negotiate drug prices for Medicare patients. That has come at a cost to Medicare…
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Fermentation, to me, is like a dance with my environment, at times loose and improvisational, but always measured and contained. What better way to cook is there than to rely on nature to alter an ingredient, at its own pace? Broadly speaking, it is a process that transforms an ingredient, using elements — bacteria, yeast,…
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The other things do matter. Many digital recordings, for example, use Auto-Tune, a technology that can change a singer’s pitch if it strays off-key, but which might alter the swoops and wavers that give a voice character. With digital technology, producers can replace bum notes or inadvertent sounds. Imperfections are eliminated. Often, though, the greatness…
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A traveler who put a tracking device in her bag helped sheriff’s deputies in Florida identify an airport worker who was accused of stealing more than $16,000 in goods from passengers’ luggage, the authorities said. Giovanni De Luca, 19, a baggage handler at Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport, was arrested on Aug. 10 and charged with…
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