As our shared pint of goat cheese and cherry ice cream was turning into a puddle, Shannon and I attempted to analyze our bizarre encounter: Why had the woman taken a bus and not a taxi? Why didn’t she have a cellphone? Why did I let her use my phone? We laughed, writing it off…
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I have a confession to make. It took me an embarrassing number of years working at The New York Times, in Times Square, before someone finally helped me realize that the neighborhood’s name wasn’t a coincidence. Not only is the city’s neon epicenter named for the paper, which for decades was headquartered right in the…
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It wasn’t the canceled flight on Christmas Day that upset Shelley Morrison the most. It was the police officer threatening to arrest her if she didn’t leave a secure area of the airport. Ms. Morrison and her three daughters had arrived at Nashville International Airport two hours early on Dec. 25 for their Southwest Airlines…
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Cara De Silva, a journalist and historian of food and culinary culture who in 1996 edited a groundbreaking collection of recipes amassed by prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp, which became a surprise hit, died on Dec. 7 in Manhattan. She was 83. Her close friend and fellow food writer Fred Plotkin said that the…
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After a nightmare week of cancellations that left Southwest Airlines scrambling to repair its reputation, the beleaguered airline appeared to finally return to its normal schedule on Friday. On Friday, just 43 of Southwest’s flights for the day were canceled, according to FlightAware, a flight-tracking service. A small number of cancellations each day is typical;…
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Welcome to T Wanderlust, a new travel newsletter from the editors of T Magazine. Twice a month, we’ll recommend global destinations and hotels worth visiting. Sign up here to find us in your inbox every other Friday, along with our T List newsletter each Wednesday. And you can always reach us at tlist@nytimes.com. Driving down…
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Hello, Five Weeknight Dishes readers! I’m filling in for Emily today; she’ll be back at it next week, like many of us. This week has been a time to hibernate, braise and simmer, with wild weather across the country in addition to the usual interholiday lull. (We will not soon forget the couple in Williamsville,…
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Game meat is any land animal hunted for sustenance and not grown on farms. There are literally hundreds of different kinds of animals that may be slaughtered and turned into meat. Duck, rabbit, and deer are among the wild animals whose flesh is consumed the most often throughout the continent of North America. In general,…
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On a balmy evening earlier this month, the gallerist Nina Johnson hosted a few dozen guests in Shorecrest, a residential neighborhood about nine miles west of South Beach — where Art Basel Miami Beach and Design Miami were then in full swing — for a dinner that was imbued with the verve and creativity of…
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