Memento
A cartoonist fills in the blanks of her dad’s top secret career and invisible legacy.
Love Letter: Torn Between Grief and the Future
In this week’s Modern Love essay, “A Texting Lifeline During a Difficult Time,” Tatiana Jackson-Saitz writes about the complexities of falling in love while losing her father to cancer. Ms. Jackson-Saitz just finished her second year at the University of Chicago. She is a finalist in our most recent Modern Love college essay contest.
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Juneteenth Merchandise: The Good, the Bad and the Cringe
Brandy Goodner first learned about Juneteenth when she was 14. Although she didn’t begin celebrating the holiday — a commemoration of the day in 1865 that enslaved people in Texas were told that they had been freed two years earlier — until she was an adult, Ms. Goodner now parties like she’s making up for…
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2022 Cheesemonger Invitational Crowns New Champion
Cara Condon was a dark horse heading into the 2022 Cheesemonger Invitational in Brooklyn last Sunday. Although she has been working in the field for more than a decade, she felt that her wrapping skills weren’t in the top tier, and worried that her cheese-and-beverage pairing wouldn’t be a hit. “I know it sounds absolutely…
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Covid Vaccine and Fisheries Deals Close a ‘Roller Coaster’ W.T.O. Meeting
WASHINGTON — Members of the World Trade Organization announced several agreements on Friday at the close of their first in-person ministerial conference in four years, pledging to rein in harmful government policies that have encouraged overfishing and relax some controls on intellectual property in an effort to make coronavirus vaccines more widely available. The agreements…
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This Simple Vegan Ice Cream Recipe Requires Just Four Ingredients
The usual path to homemade vegan ice cream is slicked with dairy-free milk — almond, coconut, cashew, hemp. But there’s another option that gives you an even richer, plusher result: oat creamer. With their inherent starchiness, oats can help thicken and stabilize frozen desserts, keeping ice crystals at bay. Many vegan ice cream recipes call…
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Eat This Outside
People often assume, because of my work (and the patriarchy), that I’m the principal cook in my home. It’s true that I am, because I like to do it and I don’t like to clean, which my husband, Blake, is fine with doing. The division of labor is tidy and true. But that doesn’t mean…
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C.D.C.’s Advisers Debate Vaccines for Youngest Children
In deliberations over whether to recommend Covid vaccines for young children, scientific advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Evaluation on Friday wrestled with the complexities of evaluating two very different vaccines, and with limited data. The advisers are tasked with making recommendations for use of the Moderna vaccine in children 6 months through…
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Dyke Day LA Is a Pride Event All Its Own
Last weekend, droves of people descended on a 15-acre park in northeast Los Angeles for an afternoon of picnicking, mingling, cheering on drag performances and a puppy costume competition, and more. Known as Dyke Day LA, this annual Pride gathering takes a homespun approach to a month typically packed with corporate-sponsored parties, parades and concerts;…
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A Teenage Chef Who Brings Soul to California Cuisine
Name: Rahanna Bisseret Martinez Age: 18 Hometown: Oakland, Calif. Now Lives: In a three-bedroom house in East Oakland with her mother and younger brother. Claim to Fame: Ms. Bisseret Martinez is a teenage chef and cookbook author known for spicy dishes that combine her Black, Mexican and Haitian heritage, as well as her Northern California…
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