When Leah Wong and Dennis Fan first met at a happy hour at the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association Convention in Austin, Texas, in November 2019, there was a spark. And it was purely professional. “I remember texting my friend, being like, ‘I met this guy that I have a professional crush on,’” Ms.…
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Jacqueline Marie Patmore and Banks Thomas Clark barely touched their appetizers — deviled eggs, brussels sprouts, onion rings and jalapeño poppers — during their first date one rainy evening in October 2021 at Freebird Kitchen and Bar in White Plains, N.Y. They were so enthralled with each other that even their waiter kept his distance.…
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What’s Behind the Numbers: Flavor bans may have had an effect. One thing is clear about underage e-cigarette use: Adolescents like flavors. About 90 percent of the students who reported vaping said they used flavored products, citing favorites that tasted like fruit and candy. Teenagers identified Elf Bar and Esco Bar as their favorite brands,…
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It’s soup season in New York City Not everybody loves soup. This is made clear to me every time I suggest ordering a bowlful and everyone at the table looks down and acts as if I hadn’t spoken. I understand some of the reluctance. We live in the age of small plates meant for sharing,…
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He was also, as the magazine WWD pointed out, an outspoken voice in favor of broadening beauty standards to include those of all sizes, ages, races, physical ability and gender. “In order to be effective in the business, you have to be aligned with the culture,’” said Kyle Hagler, a former IMG executive who now…
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Helen Marie Williams was born on Sept. 16, 1935, in Burlington County, N.J., and grew up in East Riverton, a Delaware River town about 15 miles northeast of Philadelphia. Her father, Ellis L. Williams, was a chauffeur; her mother, Helen (Blackstone) Williams, a homemaker. After high school, Helen found a job as an assistant at…
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The Context Holiday retail sales are a closely watched measure of the health of the U.S. consumer and often the most lucrative time of the year for major retailers. Even in tough financial times, the question is not whether Americans will spend during the holidays, but how much. As the Federal Reserve has worked to…
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At the home of the cookbook author Palak Patel, the days leading up to Diwali are spent cleaning her kitchen and preparing the numerous snacks and mithai, or sweets, they’ll deliver to friends and family for the South Asian festival of light. Her mother, Mala Patel, fries dried snacks, like Mathia, to fill giant frosting…
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Wine is made by fermenting grapes or other fruit, although apple and pear wines are distinctive enough to have earned their own categories, cider and perry. But a growing number of producers are blurring the styles, blending grape wines and ciders or fermenting grapes and other fruit together, with remarkable delicious results. Some of these…
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Mushroom recipes for dark nights I tend to commute home on autopilot, taking in very little around me as I zone out to music so loud that my Health app insists I turn it down. So when I emerged from the subway the other day just before 6 p.m., I was startled by what I…
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