Think about your most exciting purchase or gift this year. It was a chic designer bag, wasn’t it? Well, it’s time to take that excitement into 2024 because there will be plenty of trends to help spice up your life in the new year. Textures, silhouettes, and color palettes are poised to make the next…
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Hi there! Mia here, your trusty New York Times Cooking newsletter editor. I’m filling in for Melissa today and for Sam on Friday while they’re on vacation, and I’m chock-full of cookies — specifically the giant choco chunkies from Samantha Seneviratne’s new cookbook — and sparkling apple cider. Let’s do this! Maybe it’s my California…
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When Judy Pellarin had her daughters three decades ago, she and her husband gave them her last name instead of his. A generation later, her daughters also broke tradition — one gave her daughter her surname, and the other created a new name, a blending of her and her husband’s middle names. Though some families…
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“Roll me up and smoke me when I die,” Willie Nelson sang from the stage of the Hollywood Bowl during his 90th birthday celebration in April. As usual, Mr. Nelson looked very much at ease. He was wearing a cowboy hat over a red bandanna, and his hair spilled down his back. His trusty guitar,…
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I am 68 and live alone in a nice home in the suburbs. My only child, 40, is happily settled with his fiancée in another city. I always hoped they would come back here to raise a family, and I offered to give them my home if they did. They like the idea and plan…
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Another year in travel, another 12 months of meltdowns and debacles. As one analyst put it, 2023 “took chaos to a new level.” Yikes. Still, travelers kept flying, including in record-breaking numbers on Thanksgiving weekend. Whether they decided to enter the fray or just armchair travel, our readers loved stories that took them away, whether…
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He’ll Be Home for Christmas! “I’ll drive; it’s 20 hours and I’ll be there for Christmas dinner,” my husband, Edwin, said, undeterred after a Canadian snowstorm grounded all flights. Imagining a fatality replacing our festivities, I insisted he come by train. Hours in, Edwin’s locomotive halted, its tracks blocked by debris. Eighteen hours of standstill…
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No one can predict with certainty what we will eat and drink in the new year, but multitudes try. As my own end-of-the-year ritual, I sift through an avalanche of predictions from big food companies, PR firms, restaurant groups and market researchers. And then I get on the phone, interviewing the best prognosticators in the…
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If the food (read: cookies) is the best part of the holidays, the second-best must be the presents. Especially those presents that make cooking easier, or just plain fun. If you have some new toys to play with in the kitchen — an air fryer, a pressure cooker or a powerful new blender to replace…
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Jane Matsumoto’s family is so eager to eat their annual ozoni that they gather around the table at 2 in the morning, right after they’ve cleaned the confetti, streamers and champagne glasses from their New Year’s Eve festivities. Ms. Matsumoto, who is sansei, or third-generation Japanese American, and the executive culinary director of the Japanese…
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