Biden’s Top Science Adviser Resigns After Acknowledging Demeaning Behavior

Ms. Psaki referred repeatedly to the administration’s “Safe and Respectful Workplace Policy across the Executive Office of the President,” which she said was completed early in Mr. Biden’s tenure. The document, sent by Dana Remus, the White House counsel, to employees in May, states that “discrimination; harassment, including sexual harassment; bullying; and retaliation violate the…

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The Magic of Meringues

There are few transformations in cooking as miraculous as turning an egg into a meringue. With only some sugar, air and a small amount of effort, a bowl of modest egg whites can become extravagantly glossy and puffed, ready to dress up all manner of swoopy, fancy confections — festooned on cakes, piped into pavlovas…

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How to Make the Best Meringues

Humble and mysterious, an unbroken egg is “one of the most private things in the world,” the food writer M.F.K. Fisher wrote. But once cracked open, it reveals itself to be a flamboyant shape-shifter. Depending on how you handle them, egg whites can metamorphose from a dense, viscous liquid into various altered states: soft and…

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Coffee Grown in the Shadow of Volcanoes

In regions where coffee is grown in mineral-rich volcanic soil, the complexity of the beans receives a boost. Volcanica Coffee, a roasting company based in Suwanee, Ga., focuses on just that, with more than 100 mostly single-origin coffees from dozens of locations around the world where volcanoes loom. It recently introduced several so-called “natural” coffees,…

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