The phrase “crop top” was not in Laken Brooks’s vocabulary before March 2020. Months of working from home at the start of the pandemic, though, gave the 27-year-old Ph.D. candidate a chance to re-evaluate her fashion choices. So when the chance to own a cropped T-shirt — short sleeved and charcoal gray with images of…
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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration’s new website allowing people to order up to four free at-home coronavirus tests quietly went live on Tuesday — a day in advance of its formal launch — and demand already appeared to be significant. A combined total of more than 1 million visitors were on the home page and…
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MILAN — Just about the last “ism” no one gets noisy about is the one regarding age. Fashion, in particular, has been a chronic offender, fetishizing millennials and tapping a foot while waiting for the olds to pack up and check into a home. It is common business knowledge that baby boomers outspend consumers from…
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MILAN — Sometimes it’s the random adjacencies that make you savor life. You can’t exactly call it coincidence — or even entirely unexpected — that one moment during fashion week you find yourself sitting at Zegna corporate headquarters viewing a men’s wear show from a venerable house that went public, and abruptly ditched its trademark…
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An Italian-style coffee roaster has come to East Harlem. Michele Maturo, a native of Milan and a coffee aficionado, is consulting with Jake Leonti, a professional roaster, to process green beans from various countries into blends, both Italian and American style, to sell retail and wholesale. Beyond the handsome dark navy brick facade punctuated with…
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The Manhattan brewery Torch & Crown has introduced walking tours. Erin Fitzpatrick, the guide, begins at the brewery in SoHo and leads participants through the neighborhood and parts of Lower Manhattan, describing the architecture, the history of beer in New York and some classic local bars before returning to tour the brewery and have lunch…
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The chef Harold Moore’s signature dessert is his lush coconut cake: four layers, with creamy frosting and a coating of lightly toasted coconut. The spotlight started to shine on it when he was at Commerce in the West Village, which closed in 2015. Now the chief culinary officer for the Charlie Palmer Collective’s restaurants, he…
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Though its roots go deep in France and its origins might be traced to ancient Rome, the malbec grape has become identified with Argentina. It was brought there in the mid-19th century, where it became the country’s dominant red varietal. Dr. Laura Catena — a physician, the managing director of Bodega Catena Zapata, the founder…
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Pork roll or Taylor ham, depending on where you live, is a cured meat product that’s similar to bologna but with more character, flavor and texture. Now Olympia Provisions, a meat company in Portland, Ore., has collaborated with Brad Leone, a chef and video star at Bon Appétit, to make its own mildly smoky version…
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