On March 15, 2020, the pandemic forced the chef Dominic Piperno to close Hearthside, his then-two-year-old restaurant in Collingswood, N.J. When he reopened it six months later, industrywide staffing shortages meant he could operate only four days a week. During that period, he noticed what seemed like “a better lifestyle for everybody,” he said. In…
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On a clear blue Friday in July, a group of 20 people from different professional backgrounds — a sports coach, a television executive, an owner of a public relations company — sat around a table stocked with nuts and fruit in Montauk, N.Y., to learn how to journal. With a glass of white wine in…
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Ashley Warren had been in Albania for work for about a week when she realized it: She was really, really thirsty — and nobody else around her seemed to be. Like many Americans, Ms. Warren carried a water bottle around with her wherever she went, but she noticed that none of her European colleagues did.…
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Juicy, acidic and sun-warmed sweet, a perfect summer tomato is a blessing. (A less perfect tomato is fine, if a little dull; a wan out-of-season tomato is to be avoided.) I eat tomatoes every day in August, sometimes at every meal. That’s why it’s Tomato Week here at Five Weeknight Dishes, with recipes that feature…
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Jim Wilson/The New York Times. On an average morning, Susan Glass can sit on the patio at her condominium complex in Saratoga, Calif., and identify as many as 15 different bird species by ear: a steller’s jay, an acorn woodpecker, an oak titmouse. For her, birding is more than a hobby. “Birds are my eyesight,”…
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It’s why Sepp Blatter, then the president of FIFA, suggested in 2004 that women soccer players should wear “tighter shorts” and why there was a brief moment in 2011 when the AIBA, the boxing association, suggested that female boxers compete in … skirts. Though both of those ideas were rejected fairly quickly, it is still…
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A new obesity drug, Wegovy, slashed the risk of serious heart problems by 20 percent in a large trial, the drug’s maker said on Tuesday, a finding that could put pressure on insurers to cover the in-demand treatment. The trial — the first to demonstrate that one of the new class of obesity drugs could…
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An Opulent New Way to Put an Egg On It These days, it seems that some restaurants will add a dollop of caviar to anything, from fried chicken to hamburgers, practically reducing the once-luxurious treat to a condiment. So it’s perhaps no surprise that chefs are turning their attention to something more rarefied than your…
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Mr. Büsser had invited Mr. McDonnell to dinner because he couldn’t wait to show off the vintage Tiffany chronograph pocket watch that he had just bought. “I was so proud of it,” he recalled recently. But Mr. McDonnell was not impressed: “I could just see all its technical faults.” “Its precision is rubbish; all chronographs…
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In the beginning, Jarrah Al-Buainain wasn’t interested in renovating. When his work as a lawyer brought him to New York from Berkeley, Calif., in 2019, he just wanted to enjoy all that the city had to offer. “I wanted something that was more or less turnkey, and just done,” said Mr. Al-Buainain, 35. At the…
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