What prompts someone to donate a kidney to a stranger? The answer is not always easy to pinpoint (just read the viral New York Times Magazine article, “Who Is the Bad Art Friend?” to see how convoluted organ donation can become!). In this week’s Modern Love essay, “Man with Incredible Beard Desperately Needs Kidney,” a…
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If the phrase “zucchini slice” conjures an image of a round of the raw vegetable sitting next to the onion dip, it’s only because you haven’t been to Australia or New Zealand. There, a zucchini slice is a whole other thing. A beloved lunchbox staple or café snack, it’s like a cross between a frittata…
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Inflation is dominating the news, and all we seem to be talking about at New York Times Cooking (virtual) headquarters is how much groceries cost. My colleague Margaux Laskey has put together a list of 19 recipes that call for relatively cheap ingredients to help you through this time. Inspired by Margaux, I picked five…
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“Ivana Trump’s look wasn’t for everyone,” the designer Dennis Basso said Thursday afternoon, a few hours after Ms. Trump’s death was announced by former President Donald J. Trump, her ex-husband, in a statement posted on his social networking platform, Truth Social. But it was, for the decade in which she and Mr. Trump first made…
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Using vibrant vegetables and fruits at peak freshness is a great way to eat well — and inexpensively — throughout the season. By Cathy Lo Summer has many charms — the sun lingers late, fireflies abound and vegetables and fruit taste so good, they don’t take much effort to turn into delicious, satisfying dishes. Thankfully,…
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I love tattoos, much to my father’s dismay. I think they’re really cool. Some people say it’s too daunting to decide if they like something enough to wear on their skin forever, and I get that. It makes sense. But that’s not my problem. My struggle is more so that there are so many I’d…
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In late 2012, the best-selling author and journalist Michael Pollan (“The Omnivore’s Dilemma”) was at a dinner party in Berkeley, Calif. Among his fellow diners was a prominent developmental psychiatrist, in her 60s, who spoke at some length about a recent LSD trip. This pricked up Pollan’s ears. His first thought, as he shared during…
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Daisy Edgar-Jones bravely walked onstage, her face a ghastly white. Under her arm, a human head. “How could you do this to me!” she bellowed at Henry VIII. As the ghost of Anne Boleyn, Edgar-Jones, the hitherto quiet child, now slathered in face paint and clutching a homemade severed body part, found herself suddenly enamored…
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Name: Maude Latour Age: 22 Hometown: New York City Now lives: In a four-bedroom apartment near Columbia University, with the same four roommates she has lived with since freshman year. Claim to fame: Ms. Latour is a singer-songwriter whose plush indie pop grapples with impermanence. She writes about composing a letter to her future self,…
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Christine Quinn dipped a mother-of-pearl spoon into the bowl resting in its ice bath. Spreading caviar across a blini, she lifted the bite to her rose gold lips. “That tastes rich,” she said. “This is giving me rich vibes. This is the classiest breakfast I have ever had in my life.” This was on a…
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