On my first day as a line cook in a pastry kitchen, I was tasked with turning lemons into little bowls for housemade sorbet. I angled a sharp paring knife from the edge of a lemon half toward its center, then circled the knife to slice out a cone of seedy yellow flesh. Cupping that…
On Saturday evening, Kenza Fourati and her two zealous children hovered around a decorative Ramadan calendar they put up about a month ago in their Brooklyn home. “Yallah, let’s turn it around,” Ms. Fourati said. Together, they flipped it and revealed the other side: “Eid Mubarak. The Mohyeldin Fourati family.” The sun had just set,…
With Mother’s Day coming on 30 March, GlobalData is predicting a total spend for the event of £2.4 billion, “as consumer participation rises”. That would mark a 5% rise year on year and is based on the data analyst’s regular monthly survey of 2,000 consumers. Photo: Public domain With more consumers marking the day, GlobalData…