Almost every family has a secret they never discuss. Ours is this: We were taste testers for Pop-Tarts. It was not long after Kellogg’s introduced the toaster pastry in 1964. But for several months one year (none of us can pinpoint the exact date), brown cardboard boxes arrived on our doorstep with an assortment of…
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When it comes to cooking pasta, Celso Laforgia breaks every rule in the book. His spaghetti isn’t ivory-colored and tender. It’s dark as polished ebony and it crunches like grissini. He doesn’t cook it in boiling water. He chars the raw noodles in a skillet. He seasons it not with the usual fresh garlic, but…
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I hope you’ll give that salmon a try this weekend. But not only the salmon. Claire Saffitz has an ace new recipe for cinnamon rolls that would be just the thing for a late breakfast on Saturday or Sunday. Her recipe will be easier and more fun to make if you watch this delightful video…
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In the early days of the pandemic, Andy and Luana Longworth hatched a plan with 18 of their closest friends: Faced with the prospect of social isolation, they would all move in together and live as one big, happy pod. And because they could all work from home, there was no reason to stay in…
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In September, a 10-second TikTok kicked off weeks of debate. A wobbly camera stared down the center aisle of an airplane. A short story appeared, overlaid in white text: “I was seated next to a mom who had a baby in her lap and a toddler beside her. It was a lot. I offered to…
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The bride walked down a 10-foot runner. Oscar, a 7-year-old French bulldog dressed in a bow tie, was the best man and tagged alongside the groom. Twenty guests cheered the couple as they took their vows in the picturesque venue in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. The wedding wasn’t at a hidden hipster hall or a chic,…
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Yan Fu deserves some of the credit for the marathon sea swimmer Leslie Abigail Hamilton’s groundbreaking lap around Staten Island this summer. Mr. Fu did not jump in for the 14-and-a-half hour, 37-mile swim in July that earned Ms. Hamilton the distinction of being the first woman to officially complete the route. His role, instead,…
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Before Felix Rameshad Allen III had even heard of Brandon Aaron Marshall, Mr. Allen’s grandmother, Bertha Mae Allen, was already a fan of Mr. Marshall. She had watched him on KWTX-TV News 10, an affiliate of CBS in Waco, Texas, where he was a reporter. Mr. Allen and Mr. Marshall first connected in November 2015…
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Ray Anthony Biggs II and Rakim Hassan Daquan Brooks both describe themselves as “genteel” — leave it to a nightclub to loosen them up. One night in November 2017, Mr. Biggs was invited to go dancing by Aaron Rodgers, a mutual friend. Mr. Biggs went over to Mr. Rodgers’s townhouse in Anacostia, a neighborhood in…
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