An Easy Way to Elevate Your Grapes

But there are rewards for treating grapes as more — as an ingredient, something with multiple shades of flavor and the capacity to transform. Roast them in the oven until the skins pucker and split and the flesh grows slouchy, verging on collapse. What was once a high, reedy pitch of sweetness takes on body…

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Companies Were Big on CBD. Not Anymore.

Just below rows of energy and kombucha drinks at Westside Market, a deli in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, sit a few glass bottles of Vybes. The drink, which comes in flavors like strawberry lavender and blood orange lime, is made with cannabidiol, more commonly known as CBD. But a lack of federal rules and…

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Why Nepo Babies Crowd the Fashion Runways

At London Fashion Week, the honor of the final look at the Burberry show didn’t go to a runway legend like Naomi Campbell, Agyness Deyn or Lily Donaldson, all of whom walked in the show. Instead, Maya Wigram, wearing a belted leather field jacket and billowing maxi-kilt, took the lap most models would kill for…

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Why Are Grapes Suddenly Everywhere?

Grapes have been associated with pleasure since ancient times, a symbol of Bacchus, the god of wine and revelry. These days, clusters of plummy Concords, oval autumn royals and dusky kyohos are decorating dinner tables, doubling as cornucopian decorations and low-effort snacks. “You can get a beautiful, imperfect drip and drape from grapes,” says the…

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The Chicago Bears want to pay less money to public schools

No Bears owner Virginia McCaskeyPhoto: Getty Images The Eagles’ collapse was an episode of The Sopranos The Chicago Bears are arguing with three public school districts in the northwest suburbs about property taxes for the site of their proposed $5 billion entertainment and housing complex. The details are even less savory than they sound. Illinois,…

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