The Fancy Food Show, an annual trade show held this week by the Specialty Food Association, covers less territory at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York than in prepandemic years. A total of 1,373 companies displayed foods, drinks and related items, down from about 2,400 in 2019, the last year the show…
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The rum-based airmail is the signature cocktail at Airmail, a new bar in Alton Food Hall in Miami Beach. The drink’s history links Miami and Cuba: It is thought to have been created around 1930 by Bacardi, when the company was still based in Cuba, to mark the start of airmail service to Miami. The…
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Making bread is often considered to be therapeutic. For Kitty Tait, a teenager who overcame clinical depression by baking, it led to a successful bakery, the Orange Bakery in Watlington, England, near Oxford, and a book. At 14, Ms. Tait’s formerly sunny outlook was plunging into despair. In less than a year of baking with…
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Micah Fredman, a chef, and Joshua Brau, who worked in food sustainability, believe in frozen food. Since early 2020, their company, Ipsa, has been selling ready-to-heat preparations like Moroccan chicken, beef and kimchi stew, and pozole verde, of particularly high quality. Now they have introduced pizza. David Kay, a former Gramercy Tavern cook who has…
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When W. Larry Kenney, a professor of physiology at Pennsylvania State University, began studying how extreme heat harms humans, his research focused on workers inside the disaster-stricken Three Mile Island nuclear plant, where temperatures were as high as 165 degrees Fahrenheit. In the decades that followed, Dr. Kenney has looked at how heat stress affects…
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Payton Iheme’s wide-ranging career has taken her from collecting intelligence in the Army to advising the White House on science and technology. Working for a dating app wasn’t the most obvious next move. But as Bumble’s head of public policy for the Americas, Ms. Iheme, 43, has found a cause that synthesizes her past experiences,…
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LOS ANGELES — I don’t want to be that person who recommends the chicken. Especially not here, at a restaurant you’ll likely wait months or weeks to get into — a bit less, maybe, if you can maintain a healthy working relationship with Resy’s “notify” button. But all of those people who say you should…
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“Daebak!” — pronounced DEH-bahk, often with a long, guttural emphasis on the first syllable — can be a noun, an adjective or an interjection that expresses approval when something is truly great. It’s the Korean word my mother blurted out when she recently tasted my doenjang jjigae, a soybean-paste stew that has taken me years…
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Taking a scan of an injured brain often produces a map of irretrievable losses, revealing spots where damage causes memory difficulties or tremors. But in rare cases, those scans can expose just the opposite: plots of brain regions where an injury miraculously relieves someone’s symptoms, offering clues about how doctors might accomplish the same. A…
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