I found myself relating to one of Ben & Jerry’s founders, Ben Cohen, who has very little sense of taste and no sense of smell. When he and his partner, Jerry Greenfield, were developing their signature ice cream in the 1970s, anosmia-stricken Ben advocated for chunks. He became the texture taster, the one who would…
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Good morning. I’ve been grooving on this Hetty McKinnon recipe lately, for spiced chickpea salad with tahini and pita chips (above), which, as my colleague Julia Moskin put it, “has all the fresh flavors of a great falafel sandwich — tahini, mint, paprika, cucumber, cumin, garlic — plus the crunch of pita and the satisfying…
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Hood by Air, an anarchic, pan-racial, gender-bending burst of a brand shook up the New York fashion world in 2006. Born of the club scene, founded by Shayne Oliver and Raul Lopez, it foreshadowed the rise of luxury streetwear and proved that the avant-garde could still exist even in the shadows of the garment district.…
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A Six-Bedroom House With 18th-Century Style in Italy $905,000 (750,000 EUROS) This six-bedroom home is in Cavallirio, a small town in the hills of Novara province, in the Piedmont region of northwest Italy. Located about 12 miles from Lake Maggiore, Italy’s second largest lake, the home has a castle-like wing with a turreted tower that…
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IN 1974, LORETTA CAPONI found a house in the leafy San Niccolò neighborhood of Florence, Italy. She and her husband, the painter Dino Caponi, had spent 20 years living near the city center, but Loretta, the owner of a namesake local fine-linen-and-embroidery business, loved roses, and this house — nestled in the lush hillside south…
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Whose backyard is it, anyway? When a wildlife camera is on duty, with its heat- or motion-triggered shutter at the ready day and night, the answer can be startling. Sally Naser calls the animals recorded on the dozens of cameras she monitors for The Trustees of Reservations in Massachusetts “our wildlife neighbors.” At home, in…
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Lisa Whitney, a dietitian in Reno, Nev., came across the deal of a lifetime about two years ago. A fitness studio was going out of business and selling its equipment. She scored an indoor exercise bike for $100. Ms. Whitney soon made some additions to the bike. She propped her iPad on the handlebars. Then…
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Exercise can change how crucial portions of our brain communicate as we age, improving aspects of thinking and remembering, according to a fascinating new study of aging brains and aerobic workouts. The study, which involved older African-Americans, finds that unconnected portions of the brain’s memory center start interacting in complex and healthier new ways after…
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Here’s a jumping-off point, a no-recipe recipe that takes less than an hour: meltingly tender pork chops in an onion gravy, with lemon-bright mashed potatoes and sautéed greens. It’s a bulwark against cold weather, one of the great winter feasts. Cooking without recipes is a kitchen skill, no different from dicing vegetables or flipping an…
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As we approach the first anniversary of the World Health Organization’s declaration of the coronavirus pandemic, many people have spent much of the last year within the four walls of their own homes. When offices and schools closed along with restaurants, fitness studios and hair salons (to name a few), for many people home became…
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