My love of raw oysters began in 1988, when an 8-year-old me spent a warm summer evening on Cape Cod tipping back raw oysters with my dad on the back porch of a family friend’s house. For years — well into my 20s — I had difficulty understanding why anyone would ever cook oysters when…
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Edward BerthelotGetty Images If your wardrobe could use a dress refresh now that we’re emerging out of our shells and socializing IRL again, we have very good news for you. Prime Day 2021 is stacked with sundresses. We sifted through all of the options carried by Amazon-owned Shopbop and did a deep dive into styles…
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The road to the July Olympics has been fraught, to say the least. Citizens of the host country, Japan, don’t want the event to take place. The stadium seats will be largely empty — at least of visiting fans. And people are still confused by the date (2020, instead of 2021). For one team, nevertheless,…
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Jeremy MoellerGetty Images Prime Day 2021 is officially here, which means pretty much anything and everything you could ever want from Amazon can be found on sale for the next 48 hours (or until June 22 at 12am EST). Think: AirPods, loads of beauty products, off-beat curiosities to gift as hostess presents, and more. What’s…
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The bride and groom were in the middle of exchanging vows when something landed on David Levi’s head. “I particularly don’t like flying bugs, so you could imagine my reaction when a cicada landed on my head and started moving its tiny legs on my scalp,” said Mr. Levi of Bristol, Conn. Mr. Levi, the…
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Smithfield Foods was one of the first companies to warn that the country was in danger of running out of meat as coronavirus infections ripped through processing plants in April 2020 and health officials pressured the industry to halt some production to protect workers. Now, a lawsuit filed last week by Food and Water Watch,…
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By last summer, Nick Wiseman, a founder of Little Sesame, a small chain of hummus shops in Washington, D.C., had made all the expected “pivots” to save his business. He’d offered delivery, meal kits and pantry items, and worked with local nonprofits to feed the hungry. But with both of his shops in downtown business…
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Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. I met a friend for lunch recently, one of my first New York social outings since Covid-19 forced the world into solitude 15 months ago. We laughed and shared a bottle of prosecco. We didn’t…
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Even before the pandemic jacked up the claustrophobia levels in every New York apartment, Matt Foerster, 33, and Tanya Edmunds, 34, had outgrown theirs. For three years, they had shared a two-bedroom apartment in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, with a co-worker and had quickly tested the limits of what the space could hold: first, a Peloton…
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If you are a morning person, you may be at reduced risk for major depression, a new study suggests. Several studies of the body’s circadian sleep-wake cycle have shown that being an early bird is associated with a lower risk for depression. But those studies were observational so could not prove cause and effect. For…
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