Eat Offbeat, an organization that employs mainly refugee cooks for catering, is now offering a couple of picnic boxes: one with Syrian food and the other, vegan, with a mix of items from the Middle East and Asia. The kits, which come in a cooler bag, include ingredients for stuffing pita pockets with chicken or…
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Flip this compact plain wood carrier for food, drinks and utensils and it becomes a low table for serving or eating poolside, on a beach blanket or on a coverlet in the grass. The sides and legs fold up to turn it into a carrier, which is easily opened and locked to transition from accessory…
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About six years ago, Michael López-Alegría, then president of the association’s United States chapter, and Andrew Turnage, the group’s executive director, started discussing the idea of such pins. NASA has given pins to its astronauts since the earliest days of the space program “But none of the other agencies have anything like that,” Mr. López-Alegría…
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Christian VierigGetty Images After a year spent in sweatpants and sweatshorts, I’m finally interested in wearing hard pants again. But if I’m spending on denim, I want jeans that look as good five years from now as they do today. Enter: the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale. In between fashion and home finds, Nordstrom’s Anniversary Sale has…
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OAKLAND, Calif. — On March 5, 2020, my family attended our sixth grader’s school music performance, then went straight to dinner and a concert at Yoshi’s, a local jazz club, to celebrate my husband’s birthday. We didn’t know at the time it would be our last family outing for more than a year. The following…
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A group of nearly 60 major medical organizations, including the American Medical Association and the American Nurses Association, called on Monday for mandatory vaccination of health care workers. As the highly contagious Delta variant drives a new surge of coronavirus cases, vaccination is an ethical obligation for health care workers, the groups said in a…
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The game of first lady fashion is one played 12 months a year, at pretty much any time, watched by a global mass of avid spectators who care for reasons national, personal and political. Participants are drafted as soon as they get their jobs, whether they like it or not. Jill Biden has famously been…
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Perhaps this week is the one where I can — and perhaps you can — get out of a breakfast rut (yogurt and strawberry jam, in my case), and discover something new for the first meal of the day: breakfast udon, say; or everyday pancakes; or breakfast bars with oats and coconut. There are thousands…
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The sultry days are in full swing, and this means that it is time to analyze the condition of your makeup bag as thoroughly as possible. The main task is to get rid of or put aside those products that are not suitable for use on hot days. Oily and full coverage foundations, silicone bases…
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My horse was ready to bolt — his ears pricked, his muscles tense. A few feet ahead, a herd of wild horses stared back at us; they’d been unaware of us for most of our ascent from the valley below. Horned lizards shuffled in the sagebrush beneath us, but my horse’s gaze remained locked on…
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