A “perfect” chocolate chip cookie, and the chef who created it
Calling your chocolate chip cookie “perfect” is a bold move. But British pastry chef Ravneet Gill had no problem doing it. So far, no one’s contested her claim.
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From COVID-19 to “Come on, man!”: Six takeaways from the final presidential debate
President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden engaged in more than 90 minutes of actual debate Thursday. It was civil, calm, sedate, substantive (at times) and, almost, even...
Warm and flaky sausage rolls: A childhood favorite reimagined
Warm and flaky sausage rolls, stuffed with savory meat and striped with ketchup, may not have been school cafeteria fare in Brooklyn while I was growing up. But they were...
Spencer Davis, whose band was a hitmaker in the ’60s, dies at 81
Spencer Davis, the leader of a rock group under his name that had some of the most propulsive and enduring hits of the 1960s, including “Gimme Some Lovin’,” “I’m a...
Facing a deluge of election misinformation, Colorado takes the offensive against it
To prevent deceptive tweets, doctored videos and other forms of misinformation from undermining Colorado’s elections, Jena Griswold is starting a new initiative that will run ads on social media and...
A taste of France without venturing too far
For me, composing a three-course menu is always fun. You want a balance of flavors and textures and a certain progression. Start the meal with something light and bright, go...
Schoolchildren are stalled by a growing laptop shortage
A surge in worldwide demand by educators for low-cost laptops and Chromebooks -- up to 41% higher than last year — has created monthslong shipment delays and pitted desperate schools...
Inside the social world of a shift-scheduling app
Zoom fatigue, layoffs in Slack chat, reply-all meltdowns and the general destruction of work-life boundaries: The digitized plight of the white-collar office employee, 9-to-5-ing remotely, has been documented extensively.
Roasted cauliflower recipe: You won’t want to share this dish
With its sweet, cabbagelike flavor, cauliflower is not exactly a blank canvas of a vegetable. But it can play nicely with others, especially sharp, salty, spicy ingredients, which help highlight...
5 weeknight dishes to make, from one-pot chicken thighs to Indian-ish nachos
Emails poured in after last week’s newsletter, in which I asked you to tell me what you’ve been cooking and how you’ve been feeling about it.