With all the pre-Thanksgiving preparations going on — the list-checking and turkey brining, the stock-simmering and pie-crust rolling — making actual dinners this week can feel like too much. A legit move is to order in, of course. But here’s another thought: Why wait for takeout when we at New York Times Cooking have a…
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In early 2020, the world scrubbed down surfaces, washed hands and sneezed into elbows, desperate to avoid infection with a new coronavirus. But the threat was not really lying on countertops and doorknobs. The virus was wafting through the air, set adrift in coughs and conversation, even in song. The pandemic raged for six months…
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Rosalynn Carter, who died on Sunday at age 96, was rarely included on any list of best-dressed first ladies. She was not generally called “stylish” or “trendsetting.” She did not play the White House dress-up game, at least as designed by predecessors such as Dolley Madison and Jackie Kennedy. Most of the time, she seemed…
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In a spacious Houston cafeteria awash in primary colors, diners crowded around big tables and dug into mashed potatoes splashed with a slick gravy, glossy green beans and sticky slabs of pecan pie. The calendar said Oct. 12. But this was Luby’s, where every day is Thanksgiving. “I am a Texan,” said Wunzel Lewis, 71,…
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A pre-Thanksgiving storm that may bring severe thunderstorms, gusty winds, heavy rain and snow as it tracks from the central to the eastern United States early this week could disrupt holiday travel, forecasters said. “A vigorous upper-level trough” that is moving over the western United States will send a wave of “inclement weather rapidly from…
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“The social and economic value of diamonds is very different depending on where they come from in the world,” Mr. Moltke said on a video call earlier this month from his home in Antwerp, Belgium. He moved to the city, a diamond trading hub, after leaving De Beers, where he had worked for 16 years,…
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During couture week in Paris in July, amid the packed schedule of lavish events and parties, the jewelry designer Elie Top hosted a notably intimate dinner party for 14 friends in his design studio on Rue St.-Honoré. His guests included the stylish model and actress Marisa Berenson, who said dinner at Mr. Top’s was always…
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One of Judy Geib’s free-flowing designs, an 18-karat gold lace-like Peter Pan collar, was made with the scraps gathered from around her workbench. It is part of Studio Sweep, the series she began in 2018. “I found so many beautiful little pieces of gold flowers, ferns and loops laying around,” the fine jewelry designer said…
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Even though the tri-link design remains the prevailing motif at Hoorsenbuhs, Mr. Keith plays with it. Sometimes the center link is stretched around the wrist, like in the Revere Cuff With Diamonds ($22,500); other times it is simplified to a single elongated link, as with the Dame Phantom ring ($3,950). The customer often has the…
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