Good morning. Our Ligaya Mishan has a beautiful article in The Times today about the Filipina food writer Doreen Gamboa Fernandez, who died in 2002 but whose work is right now inspiring a new generation of cooks and restaurateurs. “She revolutionized Filipino food,” Ligaya wrote, “simply by treating it as what it is: a cuisine.”…
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The Trump administration said on Wednesday that it was taking steps to make it easier for less expensive prescription drugs to be imported from other countries, particularly Canada, a move that has long been supported by progressives but has encountered fierce opposition from the pharmaceutical industry. Under the plan, the administration said it would propose…
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The one and only summer I went to sleepaway camp, I bunked with these ferocious girls from Morris County, in New Jersey, who wore tubes of grape-scented Lip Smacker lip gloss on lanyards that hung from their necks and who hogged the bank of bathroom mirrors blow-drying their hair every afternoon before dinner. The one…
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How do New York Times journalists use technology in their jobs and in their personal lives? John Herrman, a reporter for the Styles desk who covers the internet, discussed the tech he’s using. What are your most important tech tools for doing your work? I’ve never really taken an inventory like this. It’s kind of…
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Virginia Fuchs announced herself to the boxing world at the 2016 United States Olympic Trials, where she twice upset Marlen Esparza, a world champion. In 2017, Fuchs went 18-0. In 2018, she claimed a bronze medal at the world championships by attacking her flyweight opponents, on average, every four seconds during nine minutes of boxing.…
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Maybe Lucy and Ricky Ricardo (and the censors) had it right all along: Sleep in your own bed. While most couples consider sharing a bed to be an expression of intimacy and togetherness, research show there may be grounds for sleeping separately — like the bedroom scenes in the 1950s TV show “I Love Lucy,”…
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Friends in Rome had warned me: no one should eat pasta all’amatriciana nonstop for a week. The sauce — a glutton’s glorious punishment of pork, pecorino and tomatoes — produces one of the most satisfying dishes on the Roman table. But what’s the best way to make it? I planned to eat my way all…
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Several years ago I found myself lost one night near Big Sur, Calif. Fog encircled me, erasing the full moon that would have helped me find the path to my friend’s house. I stopped and waited, anxiety building, when suddenly I took several steps into a gap in the fog. The moon, uncovered again, revealed…
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People who exercise in the morning seem to lose more weight than people completing the same workouts later in the day, according to a new study of workouts and waistlines. The findings help shed light on the vexing issue of why some people shed considerable weight with exercise and others almost none, and the study…
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When customers message Nicolas Travis, the founder of the skin-care brand Allies of Skin, with questions about their sensitive skin, he asks them what other products they’re using. Ninety-nine percent of the time, he said, it’s something with drying alcohol or harsh essential oils. “I have to tell them, ‘You’ve just spent years of using…
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