Still, the rise of the kamayan dinner shouldn’t be taken as a sign that Americans are relinquishing their hold on cutlery. If anything, part of the appeal of eating with the hands, at least for those who don’t do it regularly, is precisely that it’s a break from the norm, made permissible because the food…
We love dumplings. We love noodles. And we love soup. So, unsurprisingly, we really love Hetty Lui McKinnon’s dumpling noodle soup, a speedy meal that soothes and satisfies. Miso, turmeric, ginger and garlic give the soup body and verve, and from there you have lots of options: Scale up the veggies, add shredded chicken or…
In a 1991 segment of “60 Minutes,” the CBS correspondent Morley Safer asked how it could be that the French enjoyed high-fat foods like pâté, butter and triple crème Brie, yet had lower rates of heart disease than people in the United States. “The answer to the riddle, the explanation of the paradox, may lie…
When the house is freezing and it’s still dark outside, it feels reasonable, even noble, to relish extra minutes in bed. On TikTok, some celebrate this cozy morning loafing as “hurkle-durkling,” referencing an old Scottish phrase for spending idle time awake in bed. Whether you want to huddle under the blankets and hurkle-durkle — or,…
Yet she would continue to struggle with not feeling accepted at various points in her life. When she attempted to share her paintings while she was still a student, a teacher told her, “Stick to your photos.” For years, her experience with the art world in New York was ostracizing. She’d go to all of…
As would-be diners approached a nondescript door on a placid block in Greenwich Village on Wednesday night, they were stopped short by a tall, lean man wearing a black fur hat and red carnation boutonniere. He pressed stickers over the lenses of their phones. No photography was allowed, he insisted. As they complied and disappeared…
An investigation is underway into how a woman boarded an American Airlines flight at Nashville International Airport and flew to Los Angeles without showing a ticket last week, officials said on Friday. Law enforcement met Flight 1393 upon its arrival at Los Angeles International Airport on Feb. 7, American Airlines said in a statement. The…
The average patient today, confronted with the prospect of using a medicinal leech, or Hirudo medicinalis, a faceless aquatic invertebrate with a lust for blood, might feel some queasiness, if not outright repulsion. But the parasitic worm has been touted as a cure-all by various ancient medicine traditions: It can be seen in Ancient Egyptian…
The News Growing numbers of children and adolescents are being prescribed multiple psychiatric drugs to take simultaneously, according to a new study in the state of Maryland. The phenomenon is increasing despite warnings that psychotropic drug combinations in young people have not been tested for safety or studied for their impact on the developing brain….
Good morning. We had a fine day on the water last weekend, fishing for critters on the flats north and west of Big Coppitt Key in southernmost Florida. Dinner was going to be early, with a movie, sleep and another trip in the morning. I made bulgogi on the grill next to the orchids, underneath…
