9 a.m. Get that small-town-diner experience When the owner of Canyon Steak and Waffle House, one of the area’s last true coffee-counter joints, retired in 2022, the employee who took it over knew better than to tamper with a good thing. The place may now have a new name, Cactus Jacks, and an updated interior,…
O winged Lady,Like a birdYou scavenge the land.Like a charging stormYou charge,Like a roaring stormYou roar,You thunder in thunder,Snort in rampaging winds.Your feet are continually restless.Carrying your harp of sighs,You breathe out the music of mourning. — from “Hymn to Inanna” by Enheduanna,translated from the Sumerian by Jane Hirshfield PROPHETESS ONE RISKS ANGERING the gods…
O winged Lady,Like a birdYou scavenge the land.Like a charging stormYou charge,Like a roaring stormYou roar,You thunder in thunder,Snort in rampaging winds.Your feet are continually restless.Carrying your harp of sighs,You breathe out the music of mourning. — from “Hymn to Inanna” by Enheduanna,translated from the Sumerian by Jane Hirshfield PROPHETESS ONE RISKS ANGERING the gods…
O winged Lady,Like a birdYou scavenge the land.Like a charging stormYou charge,Like a roaring stormYou roar,You thunder in thunder,Snort in rampaging winds.Your feet are continually restless.Carrying your harp of sighs,You breathe out the music of mourning. — from “Hymn to Inanna” by Enheduanna,translated from the Sumerian by Jane Hirshfield PROPHETESS ONE RISKS ANGERING the gods…
The humble lentil is a quick-cooking kitchen powerhouse. Armando Rafael for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews. By Ali Slagle Ali Slagle is a recipe developer and regular contributor to NYT Cooking who specializes in low-effort, high-reward recipes. She is also the author of the cookbook “I Dream of Dinner (so You Don’t…
Food Voyages: Six journeys in search of a single bite. Text by Ligaya Mishan Photographs and video by Luisa Dörr Sept. 26, 2024 I used to take pride in eating the hottest chiles I could. I went up the ranks of the Scoville scale, dosing myself with Thai bird chiles, Scotch bonnets, habaneros, Trinidad Moruga…
We have finished our annual search for America’s best restaurants. Over the last 12 months, our reporters and editors traveled to nearly every state scouting restaurants for this annual list. This year, it was about spaces as much as places. We ate hyperlocal dishes served out of a trailer in a rural Virginia field, experienced…
Kristen Poole with her two sons outside Pittsburgh, where she recently weighed whether to buy a new home in the area or continue renting. Nancy Andrews for The New York Times Thinking of moving? It’s a confusing time. The median American home-sale price hit a record high in July, forcing more people into the rental…
9 a.m. Eat a breakfast sandwich, then browse the shops The line might be out the door, but the sourdough bagels are worth the wait at Cultured, a bakery in Sister Bay, one of the peninsula’s northernmost towns. Grab a bagel with local smoked whitefish, herb-and-garlic cream cheese, tomato, cucumber and pickled red onion ($14),…
9 a.m. Visit a giant troll in the woods Sundays often scream “day trip,” and Seattle is fortunate enough, within its city limits, to have an easily accessible peninsula that feels hours away even though it’s only a short drive (or water taxi trip) from downtown. West Seattle is blessed with a sandy shore at…
