How I Came to Cook in French

I can’t really speak French, but I cook in French. For years, I studied conjugations and the passé simple, practiced pronouncing yaourt and grenouille, but try as I might I just couldn’t seem to master it beyond the essentials like “deux pains au chocolat, s’il vous plaît.” In the kitchen, however, I am fluent. The…

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How to Make Money in Your Sleep

Many fledgling creators dream of waking up to viral fame and riches. Now that dream is beginning to look a lot like reality. Hundreds of TikTok users have begun live-streaming themselves overnight, while they sleep. Brian Hector, 18, did it just last week. Thousands of people tuned in. Some even donated to him. “I woke…

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Shortcuts We Love

Welcome to Five Weeknight Dishes, where each Friday we present five different answers to the eternal question: What’s for dinner? Depending on the distractions of any given day, this question penetrates my consciousness some time between 12 and 6 p.m. The hour helps determine the answer and how much time I have to cook. This…

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