Hi and welcome to Five Weeknight Dishes, food for busy people who still want something good to eat. Easter and Passover converge this weekend, and if you celebrate I hope the week ahead brings you Cadbury creme eggs (do we like those?) and leftover ham, Hillel sandwiches and matzo lasagna (it’s a thing, and it…
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Q. What is the lowest a blood pressure should go? A. The lower limit for blood pressure is perhaps best defined by symptoms rather than numbers. In the early 1900s, life insurance companies began compiling actuarial data that established a link between increased blood pressure and increased risk of death. This insight led some doctors…
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Alert: Mother’s Day is officially twenty-three days away. And for moms to be, this day is especially important. The ones you know have probably already prepared with lamaze classes and a library’s worth of parenting books, spoil her in a different way before the baby arrives. In this round up of gifts she needs, you’ll…
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People have been eating from bowls since the dawn of civilization, long before “bowl food,” and there is no denying the age-old pleasure of it. It is a comforting way to dine. A bowl of rice with vegetables makes a nutritious, delicious meal, especially if the rice is whole grain. Of course, there’s nothing wrong…
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As a lover of sour lemon and lime desserts, I’m always on the lookout for other ingredients to satisfy my tangy cravings. Rhubarb, passion fruit, gooseberry and red currant all visit my kitchen when they come into season. But only tamarind has permanently moved in. Tamarind, specifically the paste, has taken up residence in my…
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On the very last day of March — a month that would prove very important to Mitchell Messinger and Deborah Kaplan Jacoby — the couple danced their first dance as newlyweds. The song they chose was “I Lava You,” from Disney’s 2014 animated film “Lava,” a short played before theater screenings of “Inside Out.” The…
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Image CreditAlexis Jang You’re reading In Her Words, where women rule the headlines. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox. Let me know what you think at dearmaya@nytimes.com. “It’s time for employers and politicians to recognize that pregnancy is hard.” — Avra Siegel, former deputy director of the White House Council on…
DetailsResearchers have found that 70 percent of adults who died from natural causes had not seen a healthcare provider in the 30 days before their death. A new study tries to make sense of premature death. Scientists at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences…
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The fate of the soaring, palatial and utterly impractical Dime Savings Bank in Downtown Brooklyn was inevitable. The 16,750-square-foot, 40-foot-tall chamber, with seven kinds of marble flooring, a vaulted-tile dome and Corinthian columns, closed in 2016, a victim of automated tellers and digital payments. Its last full-time tenant, Chase Bank, moved into a squat storefront…
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“The beautiful thing about Bergen is it doesn’t matter what time of year that you get here, there’s always something charming and quaint about it,” said T-Michael, a designer, tailor and worldly aesthete who has resided in this rainy Norwegian city for more than two decades. Nestled amid the snowcapped mountains and glacial fjords of…
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