Good morning. It’s a joy to cook this time of year, where I stay, as long as the fat heirloom tomatoes continue to ripen, as long as we’ve got corn. You don’t need recipes. You just assemble what you’ve got, according to texture or taste: pan-roasted chicken thighs under a shower of salt, say, placed…
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On Tuesday something funny happened on the way through the Tuileries. At one end of the Grand Allée — the vista stretching from the Louvre and the I.M. Pei glass pyramid on one end to the obelisk of the Place de la Concorde on the other, leading up the Champs-Élysées to the Arc de Triomphe…
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Hundreds of sought-after nurses are leaving some U.S. hospitals that have established vaccine requirements for all employees, involving some protests and legal opposition. But most workers, especially at large hospital chains, appear to be complying with the policies. New York hospitals and nursing homes are grappling with the state’s Monday deadline for workers to have…
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Sonia Szóstak/Courtesy of Magda Butrym “I don’t really believe in a red-carpet gown, per se,” says designer Meryll Rogge, speaking of that peculiar artifact of late-20th-century popular culture that seemed destined for extinction even before the great social awakening and the pandemic put the final nails in its sequined-and-satin bodycon coffin. Remember when evening-wear trends…
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Stephane CardinaleGetty Images Anthony Vaccarello has done it again, at the Eiffel Tower no less. For his summer 2022 show at Paris Fashion Week, the Saint Laurent creative director solidified his place as one of fashion’s most exciting design talents, as well as his relevance in the pop-culture pantheon: indie darling Talia Ryder, Gossip Girl…
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Fashion Week is back in full force, and there’s a lot to see. Blink (or scroll too fast on Instagram) and you’ll miss the details: tiny bags, tall shoes, feathered hats, leather capes and diamond dog collars. So as part of a new series, Wow Moment, we’ll spotlight things we saw on the runways that…
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Edward BerthelotGetty Images Blazers have come a long way since Melanie Griffith sported them in Working Girl. Once confined to the boardroom, blazers have taken on a more versatile reputation as an effortlessly elegant layer that can be dressed up with a midi dress or pared down with a simple T-shirt and jeans. Not only…
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“We knew we would not get the vaccines as quickly as America and Europe,” said George Gituku, the owner of Sandrage Safaris in Kenya, “so under the circumstances we are thankful that we have some business.” In 2019, Kenya received more than two million international visitors, a record number and a nearly 4 percent increase…
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Madhur Jaffrey once made me a stack of warm besan cheela for breakfast — crisp-edged, soft-centered, chickpea-flour pancakes. Or was that a dream? No, I really did stay over at her house in the Hudson Valley, after a long summer dinner, when it became too late to drive home to Brooklyn. From the window I…
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I seemed to disappoint him. “Sweetheart, your hair has no shape to it,” he’d say, or, “You could stand to lose a few pounds.” And, when I hadn’t eaten all day, the truly mortifying “Oh, darling, your breath!” I could improve on dental hygiene but I was never going to morph into one of the…
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