Despite an ever-rising number of pedestrian and bicyclist deaths on U.S. roads each year, there’s no widespread public pressure to improve road safety — a situation influenced by how news articles about auto-pedestrian/bicyclist crashes are written, said Tara Goddard, Texas A&M assistant professor of urban planning. “Adopting simple improvements in crash reporting offers a potentially…
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In 2014, several Angus cattle ranchers in Ohio started raising Wagyu for Sakura Wagyu Farms, a company formed to set standards for the cattle. The animals are bred from 100 percent Wagyu stock crossed with Angus, according to strict rules covering how they are grown (pastured, without hormones or antibiotics). Sakura’s own farms, also in…
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Cookware is among the stuff sold on Food52, the website for cooking and dining. Its new line, Five Two Essential Cookware, is designed with consumers’ feedback, and includes about the best saucepan you could want. Everything was considered: Made with three layers (aluminum sandwiched between stainless steel), it has well-balanced heft, a slightly rounded silhouette…
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In the past two decades, the reputation of Spanish food on the world’s culinary stage has skyrocketed, with chefs like Ferran Adrià, the Roca brothers, the Arzaks and José Andrés in the lead. But as “Delicioso,” a new history of Spanish food explains, it is not a sudden phenomenon. The illustrated book is a dense,…
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This article was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — When the C.I.A. strapped down Khalid Shaikh Mohammed at a secret site in Poland in 2003, those inside the cell included a three-man waterboarding team, black-masked guards — and a doctor. The doctor’s stated role was to monitor…
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Ben LeBlanc, whose satisfying soups are ladled out at Good Stock, his cafe in the West Village and Urbanspace Vanderbilt market stand, is now selling them online. They come frozen in plastic sleeves, each a single generous 16-ounce portion. All are vegetarian or vegan, in flavors like carrot-ginger, roasted mushroom, lentil and roasted tomato. There’s…
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The Chinatown Collection is a temporary pop-up store with items, selected by Care of Chan, a brand management agency, that pay homage to residents and businesses in the Manhattan neighborhood. T-shirts celebrating famous restaurants designed by the chef Danny Bowien of Mission Chinese Food and the artist Andrew Kuo, who has used Jing Fong as…
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Francis Ford Coppola knows a thing or two about the Oscars, and about wine, with extensive and historic vineyards in Napa and Sonoma counties. This year, some of his wines, notably two swathed in gold, will be poured at the bar and backstage at the Academy Awards ceremony and the Governor’s Ball. And you can…
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WASHINGTON — Martin Shkreli, a former pharmaceutical executive serving a seven-year prison sentence for defrauding investors, was accused on Monday of trying to maintain a monopoly over the lifesaving drug Daraprim through anticompetitive tactics. The Federal Trade Commission and the office of the New York attorney general, Letitia James, jointly sued Vyera Pharmaceuticals and the…
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The Spotted Pig, the Manhattan gastro pub at the center of a sexual harassment scandal that devastated the careers of the celebrated chefs Mario Batali and April Bloomfield, served its last meal Sunday night. The closing came less than a month after Letitia James, the New York State attorney general, announced that Ken Friedman, the…
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