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To eat oysters better, treat them like wine
Learning more about it can deepen a seafood eater’s experience in the same way that understanding a little about terroir can help wine lovers better appreciate the pinot noir in...

Start Christmas morning with something sweet
While pulling at sticks of caramelized, custardy bread and hot cinnamon rolls, everyone is sure to feel merry, and so will you, having wittingly stretched the day you’ve waited for...

This whole duck recipe is perfectly imperfect
Once roasted, the bird emerges with the skin golden, the meat tender and the fat melted and just waiting to meet any potatoes -- a holiday meal both cook and...

After-dinner drinks you will want to linger over
However you proceed, the psychological effect of a nightcap is as important as the physiological.

These poached eggs aren’t picture-perfect. That¶¶Ňőap what makes them beautiful.
It didn’t matter that the eggs weren’t picture-perfect. What did matter was the time we took to stop hustling and to connect with one another.

How to use your phone’s privacy-protection tools
Apple’s iOS 15 and Google’s Android 12 operating systems beefed up their privacy controls this year to give you more warnings -- and options — when a site or service...

Her Instagram handle was “Metaverse.” Last month, it vanished.
“This account is a decade of my life and work. I didn’t want my contribution to the metaverse to be wiped from the internet.”

As U.S. nears 800,000 COVID deaths, 1 of every 100 older Americans has perished
Seventy-five percent of people who have died of the virus in the United States — or about 600,000 of the nearly 800,000 who have perished so far — have been...

A journalist, a philosophy major and the mad scramble for video game consoles
Long lines outside retail stores devolving into brawls, desperate shoppers refreshing websites in a bid to outrace the bots and a cottage industry of people trading tips and making money...

How to carry your COVID health data on a smartphone
While some states, like California and New York, accept digital records as proof of vaccination to allow entry into restaurants and other businesses, states like Alabama, Arkansas and Florida have...