Over the last three weeks or so, I’ve been fielding a lot of Q.C.Q. (Quarantine Cooking Questions), and while I am working overtime on “social media” trying to answer them, I thought it would also be useful to start using this column to answer the most frequently asked. So, here goes: Yes, you can use…
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As anyone who has packed some for a picnic can attest, fried chicken travels well. So it’s an excellent choice for takeout and delivery. Across the city, you can find fried chicken everywhere from chains to high-end restaurants. The majority are American, especially Southern-style, but there are also dishes from South Korean, Japanese and European…
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Early on Feb. 1, John Inglis picked up his phone and checked Twitter, as he does most mornings. He was shocked at what fresh hell awaited. Since 2013, Dr. Inglis, executive director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press in New York, has been helping manage a website called bioRxiv, pronounced “bio archive.” The site’s goal:…
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Last week Angela Missoni took a walk in the garden of her house in Sumirago, a snug town in Italy about an hour northwest of Milan. After a month in isolation, a difficult morning on Zoom and a steady drumbeat of bad tidings for business, she needed some air. “You can imagine the kind of…
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I had high ambitions for my time in lockdown. Finally, with no restaurants to check out and no one to check them out with, I would have my nights to myself. I was going to watch all of “Berlin Alexanderplatz,” and “The Sopranos” and “Parks and Recreation,” for starters. Proust and I would resume our…
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When we published our list of 52 places to visit in 2020 three months ago, no one could have guessed how much our world would change. And now, given our stay-at-home circumstances, we’d like to invite you on a series of virtual journeys: You can wander into the belly of an Egyptian pyramid, explore the…
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This just in: Alison Stewart, the host of the arts and culture talk show “All of It” on WNYC, is a self-described stalker. Ms. Stewart stalks sofas and tables, paintings and photographs. She stalks buildings, too, which is how she came to buy an apartment in a Chelsea townhouse more than 20 years ago. “I…
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Once upon a time, in the mid-1800s, a New Yorker named Eliza Duane put pen to paper to record her most beloved recipes. A Jenny Lind bread, named after the celebrated Swedish opera singer, calls for “a lump of butter the size of an egg.” A fruit cake calls for the yolks of 30 eggs,…
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Many experts are beginning to coalesce around a set of benchmarks that could help determine when it might be safe to reopen parts of the country. But even though most areas of the United States are nowhere near achieving the goals necessary to do so, there has been a push to relax social distancing soon.…
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Nicole Elgin’s only travel these days is a 15-mile commute by car to a hospital in the San Francisco Bay Area. She’s a pediatric nurse, and her days are long and stressful. “But when I clock out from my shift, my mind shifts seamlessly to that next perfect beach,” she said. And with good reason:…
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