Good morning. Passover, which begins on Saturday at sunset, commemorates the escape of the enslaved Jews of Egypt to Mount Sinai. Those who observe will clear their homes of leavened foods — chametz, in Hebrew — to recall how their ancestors, in the rush of the exodus, had no time to wait for bread to…
When Natalie and Shane Plummer moved into separate bedrooms 12 years ago, they really just wanted more sleep. The couple, who have been married for 24 years and live in Meridian, Idaho, hoped Ms. Plummer would get a respite from her husband’s snoring. (She did.) They also thought Mr. Plummer, 47 — the tidier partner…
For the past few weeks, I’ve been doing a simple experiment: I leave for appointments 10 to 15 minutes earlier than normal. Yes, this is “obvious” advice, said Chris Guillebeau, the author of the forthcoming book “Time Anxiety: The Illusion of Urgency and a Better Way to Live.” “But the results can be life-changing,” he…
In the past, I’ve been known to rail against restaurants that don’t commit to dessert. I’m sorry, but if I could make it at home — looking at you olive oil cake — then it’s not worth my time. (Though how expensive is olive oil cake about to become with these tariffs?) But I do…
Every waiter knows the type: the volatile diner who barges in with a list of demands, orders an off-the-menu item that sends the kitchen into a panic and then at the last minute changes his mind and decides he’ll just have the steak. So if anybody knows how to handle President Trump’s stunning reversal on…
On Saturday, chasing the high of bread for dinner, I set out to cook Alexa Weibel’s vegetarian mushroom shawarma pitas and invited a couple of friends over to join me. The recipe requires very little shopping; I picked up a couple packs of portobellos and asked one guest to pick up a head of red…
The on-again, off-again tariff policy of the Trump administration has wreaked havoc across the global economy, including the travel industry. Until Wednesday’s 90-day suspension of reciprocal tariffs, the American dollar was showing signs of weakening, hotels faced higher operating costs and travelers were nervous about booking. Even before reciprocal tariffs were imposed, the Conference Board’s…
I have a group chat going with some friends that’s usually focused on knitting, but the topic often turns to recipes. (Which makes sense: What is cooking but arts and crafts with food?) This broccoli-walnut pesto pasta by Genevieve Ko entered the chat to much fanfare, and rightfully so. It’s fast, a cinch to make…
On a bright April morning, bleary-eyed after an overnight passage from mainland Norway and four short hours of sleep, we stumbled into a dockfront cafe in Kabelvag, a small town on the island of Austvagoya, part of the Lofoten archipelago. As we walked past a crackling wood stove and a rusted ship’s anchor, the host…
“It’s not a cookbook,” the poet Jim Franks said about his new book, “Existential Bread.” To dispel any confusion, here’s what readers won’t find in its pages: photos of backlit loaves of bread or of disembodied hands measuring, dusting and kneading. There are no recipes. It’s about bread baking, but only insofar as bread baking…