Our columnist, Jada Yuan, is visiting each destination on our 52 Places to Go in 2018 list. This dispatch brings her to Zambia. A Zambian park took the No. 14 spot on the list; the country is the 41st stop on Jada’s itinerary. For more coverage, or to send Jada tips and suggestions, please follow…
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People in the Hunan region of China like to say that without chiles, you can’t have a meal. Hunan Slurp, a new restaurant in the East Village with a Hunanese owner and chef, shows off the province’s spicy cuisine in dishes like whole fish with chile sauce.
Street Style Expressive dressing prevails over prescribed style in Japan’s largest city. Oct. 23, 2018 Image “I value personality in fashion because I don’t like to look like others. I have an outgoing personality, so I like to use a lot of bright colors.” — Miku Odamaki, 17, studentCreditAndrea DiCenzo for The New York Times…
DetailsA new, large-scale study finds that even extreme levels of fitness increase lifespan — particularly in older people. A new study finds that exercise, even at extreme levels, prolongs life for seniors. Exercise is widely considered to benefit health, but is there such a thing as too much exercise? Some recent studies suggest so. For…
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Lavender bath bombs; lavender candles; deodorizing lavender sachets for your shoes, car or underwear drawer; lavender diffusers; lavender essential oils; even lavender chill pills for humans and dogs. And from Pinterest: 370 recipes for lavender desserts. Take a deep breath. Release. People like lavender. We’ve been using this violet-capped herb since at least medieval times.…
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Crème de violette, a liqueur made by macerating flowers, suggests a ladylike Paris salon of yore. But its primary application is in a suave cocktail — the futuristically named the aviation — made with gin, maraschino liqueur, crème de violette and lemon juice. Not long ago the violet elixir was hard to find. Now there…
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After the devastating fire in the Grenfell Tower in London last year, many of people that escaped struggled to feed their families: They had no place to cook but a community kitchen in a nearby mosque available a couple of days a week. In January, Meghan Markle, who had yet to become the Duchess of…
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We’ve seen the frozen scooped-out half lemon filled with lemon ices. Giacomo d’Alessandro, an owner of Polosud, a gelateria that opened this summer in Little Italy, has applied that template to avocados. He fills empty avocado shells with lush, creamy and lemony vegan frozen avocado purée. A scooplet of a contrasting flavor, like hazelnut or…
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La Maison du Chocolat, the Parisian confectioner, is setting up a hot-chocolate cart that will alternate its location in front of its Upper East Side shop from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., and the sidewalk in front of the nearby Surrey hotel from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Wednesdays through Sundays, until Dec. 16.…
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Defining gender as a condition determined strictly by a person’s genitals is based on a notion that doctors and scientists abandoned long ago as oversimplified and often medically meaningless. Researchers who have studied gender issues and provided health care to people who do not fit the typical M/F pigeonholes said that the Trump administration’s latest…
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