But that has changed drastically. By the survey period 2017-18, current and former smoking rates among the wealthiest dropped by nearly half to 34 percent — while rates among the poorest inched up to 57.9 percent. Though smoking is an acquired habit, lower-income people may be more likely to use tobacco to cope with the…
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Long before my ancestors ever met macaroni and cheese or a plate of spaghetti, noodles with cottage cheese was the pasta comfort food in my Brooklyn Ashkenazi Jewish family. Called “lokshen mit kaese” in Yiddish, it’s an Eastern European dish of homemade egg noodles tossed with butter or sour cream and some kind of curdy…
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By Charanna Alexander The death of a parent can be a devastating and life-altering experience, especially for a child. Genevieve Kingston, the writer of this week’s Modern Love essay, was 3 when her mother discovered that she had advanced breast cancer. Just before Ms. Kingston’s 12th birthday, her mother died, leaving behind a box of…
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When I was picking out this week’s recipes for you, I was dreaming of Memorial Day weekend gatherings and the days that follow, that first big summer-vibe weekend of the year. (By the way, our Food staff’s favorite recipes for the season are right here in this amazing feature.) But then I noticed that the…
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Summer is the best time to eat outdoors, and, when eating outside coincides with cooking outdoors, so much the better. Still, there’s prep work to be done inside, and in some cases, as in this menu, you can do the prep, or a large part of it, a day in advance. Then, when you are…
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It’s usually rare that anyone upstages Stephen S. Miller, or Mama Rose as he’s known in some corners of the New York theater world. Outgoing and charismatic, he tends to be center of attention wherever he goes, even when he’s not wielding a microphone as a cabaret performer. By contrast, Brian Geldin, is more of…
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But I am nearly out of time, and have to make speedy decisions about, say, the melon scooper that I didn’t even know I owned until I dug through this drawer. And the extra apple slicer. For some inexplicable reason we own two — but maybe one will break, so do we keep the spare?…
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Samuel Parker gave Madeline Hollander a piece of jewelry before they had gone on even a single date. It was an earring she had lost at La Caverna, a club in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where they were both celebrating the opening of the 2019 Whitney Biennial. “I was for a very long…
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With so little to do in April 2020, Danielle Lavey and Drew Feldman quickly learned they had easy banter. That was enough for them to keep the conversation going. “We were quickly reaching a point where if we don’t meet in person, there’s only so far Zoom dating can go,” Mr. Feldman said. So, despite…
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The palatial, four-story mansion at 53 Prospect Park West, with a sprawling garden and a pair of pedestaled lions keeping guard out front, has had a long, rich history in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Built in 1901, just after the borough was incorporated into New York City, the brick-and-limestone structure was part of what was known…
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