According to Charles Oat, the bartender who invented the “Irish Car Bomb,” the controversial drink was just one of those things that happen in a bar.
The news that 33 parents, including the actors Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, have been charged in a federal case alleging that they paid a consultant to fabricate test scores, athletic skill, and academic achievements to get their children into competitive colleges is reprehensible. It’s also very relatable.
If you’ve ever followed a recipe for pie, you know that the instructions for making pie crust often read more like you’re casting a spell than baking a dessert. Add water until the dough “just comes together.” Drip ice water over flour and butter at the same pace as a late summer rain, until they resolve into shaggy clumps. Picture your grandma while adding water to the flour and butter mixture; stop when you think she would.
This story is part of How We’ll Win in 2019, a year-long exploration of workplace gender equality. Read more stories here.
My mom did not want me to play with Barbie. Her ban lasted until I was 6 and I talked my grandmother into buying me one. Her name was Malibu Barbie, and she came clad only in a mauve one-piece bathing suit, so I spent the next several weeks fashioning elaborate gowns for her out of toilet paper and fabric scraps. By the time I was 10, my two sisters and I had several dozen Barbies between us, and a tiny department store’s worth of clothing for them.
When Katherine Steck’s daughter was a young baby, she and a few other moms decided to form a playgroup for local families in Los Angeles. One big issue kept coming up: vaccination. They wanted to create an inclusive community for parents. They also wanted to protect their children, many of them too young to have fully vaccinated against diseases like measles, chickenpox, and rotovirus.
In February, the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu announced that it planned to ban disposable diapers, plastic cutlery, and some food packaging in a bid to reduce plastic waste. Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu’s foreign minister, singled out diapers as one of the biggest contributors to household trash in Port Vila, the nation’s capital.
Dylan McKay was the coolest guy in the class of 1993. Luke Perry, the actor who brought him to life on Beverly Hills 90210, died today (March 4), at the age of 52.
Zion Williamson, a Duke University basketball star, suffered a knee sprain last month when his Nike PG 2.5 sneaker blew out in the middle of the game. Nike’s stock fell, and sneakerheads freaked out.
Andy Warhol’s thoughts on fame are, well, famous. The line, “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes,” which is often attributed to the pop artist, is really more of a paraphrase of a provocation, though Warhol fully embraced it as his own creation.
The Trump administration has provided Saturday Night Live with a larger-than-usual cast of characters to impersonate. Highlights have included Alec Baldwin as the US president, Melissa McCarthy as former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, Matt Damon as Brett Kavanaugh, Robert De Niro as special counsel Robert Mueller, and Bill Hader as Anthony Scaramucci.
Amazon is getting into the grocery business—again.
The cocktail world is obsessed with origin stories—which bartender, at the behest of which famous regular, whipped up which now-legendary drink. When it comes to the hot toddy, the warming, liquor-spiked winter drink has not just one but three origin stories: One suggests the brew was first medicinal (plausible to anyone who has sipped one to ward off a cold); another traces it to the sweet tooth of 18th century Scottish women; and a third finds the drink’s roots in India, where “toddy” describes a range of fermented drinks.
When MTV Unplugged launched in 1989, the format was novel and refreshing: take musicians used to performing huge stadium shows with electric guitars, synthesizers, or turntables, and have them play an intimate, all-acoustic show. Dozens of artists, including A Tribe Called Quest, Alanis Morrisette, and Alicia Keyes, have done Unplugged sets, and while there are plenty of mediocre performances in the mix, when the show is good, it’s transcendent.
The US government’s 35-day shutdown may be over, but some Americans are still going hungry as a direct result of the record-breaking freeze.
I love taking my four-year-old son to the movies. I love the ritual of buying popcorn and choosing our seats. I love the surprising moments that make him jump, and the weird things that crack him up.
The worst thing you can call a woman starts with the letter “C.” Crazy.
If the suggestion to think of meat as seasoning, rather than the main event in a meal, sounds like a useful piece of advice that also leaves you wondering what exactly that looks like, it’s time to make sausage a pantry staple. Sausage adds tons of flavor to a dish, and a little goes a long way. It also cooks up quickly, so it’s a perfect way to get a weeknight dinner on the table in very little time.
Popcorn, if you take a moment to think about it, is pretty neat. The transformation of hard kernels into light, crunchy puffs is nothing short of a small miracle.
In my house, cooking is rarely a solitary endeavor. While both my husband and I love to cook, he’s the one who plans and prepares most of our meals, usually with the enthusiastic assistance of our four-year-old son. On the nights when I cook, our son is just as involved, dragging a chair next to wherever I’m standing. He’s an excellent mixer, and eager to be allowed more access to knives.
Healthcare professionals, including pediatricians, clinical psychologists, nutritionists, and eating-disorder specialists, are trying to halt an Australian study looking at the effects of an intermittent fasting diet on adolescents.
The World Restaurant Awards held its first-ever ceremony in Paris on Feb. 18. With a gender-balanced panel of judges from around the world, the new awards were designed to recognize fresh talent and intended to reflect the eateries and trends most captivating chefs, sommeliers, foragers, and food writers right now.
For coffee, oxygen is the enemy. The rich, tantalizing smell of freshly ground beans is also the scent of flavor dispersing.
The World Restaurant Awards are trying out a new recipe. They want to not only laud chefs and restaurants around the globe, but also to reflect a changing industry and highlight the conversations going on around food and dining. The awards will be handed out for the first time on Feb. 18 in Paris.
