To be completely honest, I don’t care that much whether chicken meat is white or dark. For me, it’s all about the skin. (Well, it’s also about the feet, tail and innards, but that’s a newsletter for another time.) It doesn’t even have to be crispy skin — I like it steamed and chewy, brittle…
Less than an hour from Cork Airport, but tucked away off the main tourist trails, Ireland’s Blackwater Valley is steeped in natural splendor and Old World romance. The area gets its name from the Munster Blackwater — a deep, fast-flowing river that wends through the verdant landscape before joining the Atlantic Ocean at the medieval…
Your hips are your body’s powerhouse. You rely on them to jump, run, pick up bags of groceries and get in and out of your car. But if your hips or their surrounding muscles are tight or weak, other parts of your body — from your ankles to your lower back — have to step…
It’s been almost a year since Miranda July released her hit novel, “All Fours.” The novel features a woman in her mid-40s who heads out on a solo road trip across the country, only to stop at a roadside motel 30 minutes from her home. She winds up staying there for three weeks, exploring and…
The happiness curve is collapsing. For decades, research showed that the way people experienced happiness across their lifetimes looked like a U-shaped curve. Happiness tended to be high when they were young, then dipped in midlife, only to rise again as they grew old. But recent surveys suggest that young adults aren’t as happy as…
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. It was around 2 a.m. when the birds started to chirp outside of Carousel, a trendy bar in Bushwick, Brooklyn. I was with a small, committed group of friends, lingering as we considered our next…
Marie-Antoine Carême, considered by many to be the father of French haute cuisine, is perhaps most famous for his sweets — he perfected the soufflé, invented the croquembouche and may have developed the modern wedding cake. But was Carême as racy as he appears in the Apple TV+ series that drops on Wednesday? On the…
Watching wild baboons in Kenya, Akiko Matsumoto-Oda, an evolutionary biologist and primatologist at the University of the Ryukyus in Japan, had a front-row seat to the violence between these monkeys, especially the males. “I was struck by how frequently they sustained injuries,” she said, “and, even more, by how rapidly they recovered — even from…
The Latest The news made for an alarming headline this week: Research showed that common chemicals in plastics were associated with 350,000 heart disease deaths across the world in 2018. The statistic came from a study published Monday in the journal eBioMedicine. The authors, a group of researchers at New York University’s Grossman School of…
When Bill Belichick, one of the country’s most famous football coaches, appeared on “CBS Sunday Morning” over the weekend to promote his new book, “The Art of Winning: Lessons From My Life in Football,” he touched on a number of topics, including his apparent disdain for inspirational halftime speeches. Football, Mr. Belichick said in his…