People with different flavor obsessions tend to appreciate each other’s passions — lemon lovers understand chocoholics, and chile fiends click with squint-seeking sour-candy obsessives. But when it comes to texture, there can be a mutual incomprehension. I happen to love anything squishy, springy, chewy, wobbly or displaying the soft elasticity called Q or QQ in Taiwan, and…
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On Sunday night, the most watched fashion show of New York Fashion Week took place — in Arizona. I am speaking, of course, of Rihanna’s Super Bowl halftime show, a 13-minute extravaganza of crimson and a pregnancy reveal in the form of workwear, puffers and a breastplate that will probably set maternity trends for the…
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Before going home to Philadelphia to watch the Super Bowl this Sunday, Cheyenne Corin, 27, a freelance journalist in Washington, D.C., texted her mother a special request: cheese steaks topped with caviar. “Cheese steaks are a great celebration food and caviar is a great celebration food, so why not have them together?” she said. “I…
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Before going home to Philadelphia to watch the Super Bowl this Sunday, Cheyenne Corin, 27, a freelance journalist in Washington, D.C., texted her mother a special request: cheese steaks topped with caviar. “Cheese steaks are a great celebration food and caviar is a great celebration food, so why not have them together?” she said. “I…
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Before going home to Philadelphia to watch the Super Bowl this Sunday, Cheyenne Corin, 27, a freelance journalist in Washington, D.C., texted her mother a special request: cheese steaks topped with caviar. “Cheese steaks are a great celebration food and caviar is a great celebration food, so why not have them together?” she said. “I…
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Before going home to Philadelphia to watch the Super Bowl this Sunday, Cheyenne Corin, 27, a freelance journalist in Washington, D.C., texted her mother a special request: cheese steaks topped with caviar. “Cheese steaks are a great celebration food and caviar is a great celebration food, so why not have them together?” she said. “I…
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CALGARY, Alberta — Aidan’s tics erupted one day after school in early 2021, about a month after the long pandemic lockdown had ended. The 16-year-old convulsed while walking into the house, head snapping and arms swinging, sometimes letting out high-pitched whistles and whoops. Aidan’s parents looked up from the living room couch with alarm. They…
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That’s why businesses are handing visitors the most useful item a tourist can pick up in Sanibel today: a printed list of what’s open, where and when. ‘It breaks your heart’ For now, a visit to the area is more a pledge of support than a vacation. On a sunny day in early February, Lisa…
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The designer Stella Jean has often cut a solitary figure. Since her debut at Milan Fashion Week in 2013, and with support from Giorgio Armani, the Haitian-Italian designer remains the only Black member of the National Chamber of Italian Fashion. She has often used her platform to address the need for better representation and financial…
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JACKSON, Miss. — When the coronavirus first scythed through the nation in early 2020, few places needed help fighting it more than Scott County, Miss., a rural patch of chicken processing plants and pine forests an hour east of the state capital, Jackson. The poverty rate for the county’s 28,000 residents was far above the…
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