The multicultural evolution of the food of South Africa over the past 400 years will be surveyed and explained by Keri and Kelsi Matwick, twin sisters who have graduate degrees in linguistics and now teach on the university level. On June 9 at 6:30 p.m. in a Zoom program for the Culinary Historians of New…
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Despite strong levels of vaccination among older people, Covid killed them at vastly higher rates during this winter’s Omicron wave than it did last year, preying on long delays since their last shots and the variant’s ability to skirt immune defenses. This winter’s wave of deaths in older people belied the Omicron variant’s relative mildness.…
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My first encounter with a real Moroccan tagine was 30 years ago in the home of a taxi driver who had invited me to dinner with his family in Fes. We sat in a circle on the floor around a chicken his mother had simmered with onions, as the aroma of cinnamon and saffron filled…
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The Republic of Tea was founded in 1992 and then acquired two years later by Ron Rubin, an entrepreneur who worked in the beer, wine and liquor business before starting a bottled beverage company. It’s called the Republic of Tea because some of the original owners also created the Banana Republic clothing company. Mr. Rubin…
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Dana Cowin, who was the editor in chief of Food & Wine magazine for 21 years and left in 2016, is back in the editorial game with a new zine called Speaking Broadly. The project, which shares its name with her podcast, was put on hold for two years because of the pandemic, but it…
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Bright local strawberries are showing up on farm stands and in the city’s Greenmarkets. Like the Hudson Valley and Long Island, New Jersey is a major source, but not just for seasonal field-grown fruit. A couple of indoor growers, Bowery Farming and Oishii, are cultivating them indoors with no seasonal limitations. They’re grown without pesticides…
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June is Pride Month and to celebrate, the chefs Seleste Tan and Mogan Anthony — the owners of Lady Wong, an East Village bakery that specializes in Southeast Asian confections — offer a dazzling steamed Indonesian rainbow cake. The petite stack of thin, multicolored, slightly spongy gelatinous layers is meant to be eaten by peeling…
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Food returns to center stage this summer at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx; beginning Saturday, displays throughout the garden will relate to produce as part of the exhibition “Around the Table.” Edible plants will be growing in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory and will be featured in an African American garden curated…
DetailsActualmente, algunas niñas comienzan a desarrollar senos a los 6 o 7 años. Los investigadores indagan si en estos cambios inciden la obesidad, el estrés y las sustancias químicas.
In 2007, after most of the work was complete, they welcomed the arrival of their son, Owen, now 14. A few years later they added a Victorian bulldog, Watson, to the mix. And as they began entertaining more, the 1,800-square-foot house they had lovingly renovated began to feel a little small. So in 2016, when…
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