Seaweed Butter A compound butter that combines seaweed, cultured butter and sea salt, this is wonderful melted over boiled potatoes, stirred into pasta or rice, dolloped over roasted vegetables, chicken and especially seafood. I love it smeared on warm bread and topped with smoked salmon. Bordier makes a fine one, imported from Brittany in northwestern…
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The impact may not yet be obvious in grocery stores and greenmarkets, but behind the organic apples and bags of rice and cans of cherry pie filling are hundreds of thousands of farmers, plant breeders and others in agriculture who are scrambling to keep up with climate change. Drop a pin anywhere on a map…
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The “first look” has become a special part of many weddings. This is when brides and grooms see each other just before the ceremony, typically in full, formal attire. A recent survey by the Knot found that 44 percent of American couples who married in 2017 did a first look, with a majority of them…
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Image Alchemy 43, newly opened in the Flatiron district.CreditJeenah Moon for The New York Times There’s nothing secretive about getting Botox and fillers at Ject in the West Village. The three-month-old injectable beauty bar has a glass front with its name hand-painted in 23-karat gold. Treatment spaces are separated only by curtains. There’s a photo…
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It’s one of the most common tests in medicine, and it is performed millions of times a year around the country. Should a metabolic blood panel test cost $11 or $952? Both of these are real, negotiated prices, paid by health insurance companies to laboratories in Jackson, Miss., and El Paso in 2016. New data,…
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Tyler Joe You may be ready to hit the ground running in little white dresses and basket bags, but there’s admittedly more to summer dressing than cosplaying Anne of Green Gables. This season it’s all about color and experimentation, and thankfully the streets are offering valuable inspiration. We scoured fashion week photos and found 9…
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are not, as it turns out, the only royal Western brands attracted by the promise of Africa. On Monday, Dior, French fashion aristocracy, brought its court to Marrakesh, Morocco. They landed in a Dior-branded plane and dined by a reflecting pool in the Bahia palace, off pottery made just for…
DetailsResearchers have recently examined the link between mental health conditions and obesity in over 12,000 children and teenagers. The results show that obesity raises the risk of anxiety and depression, which is something that physicians and healthcare professionals should be “vigilant about.” Obesity raised anxiety and depression risk by 33% among young boys. According to…
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Can I eat well without wrecking the planet? As a climate reporter and personal chef to a growing, ravenous child, I think about this question a lot. Is there a cuisine somewhere in the world that is healthy both for us and for the planet we live on? And if one exists, would we even…
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For a living room to feel pulled together, most designers will tell you, it needs a rug. But rugs can be expensive. And because a large-scale item like that is going to have a big effect on the way a room looks and feels, choosing one can be intimidating. The right rug may live in…
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