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Frozen Banana Daiquiri
2 large, very ripe, frozen bananas, sliced Add ingredients to Grocery List Ingredient Substitution Guide Nutritional Information Nutritional analysis per serving 43 grams carbs; 328 calories; 3 grams fiber; 21 milligrams sodium; 2 grams protein; 28 grams sugar Note: The information shown is Edamam’s estimate based on available ingredients and preparation. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice. Powered by Blend ingredients until smooth and frosty.
Margarita Recipe
½ ounce triple sec, preferably Cointreau Add ingredients to Grocery List Ingredient Substitution Guide Nutritional Information Nutritional analysis per serving 8 grams carbs; 186 calories; 2 grams fiber; 340 milligrams sodium; 1 gram protein; 1 gram sugar Note: The information shown is Edamam’s estimate based on available ingredients and preparation. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice.
Rosie Schaap on Losing Her Husband: “He Wanted to Go on Reading Because He Wanted to Go on Living.”
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Rosie Schaap on Losing Her Husband: “He Wanted to Go on Reading Because He Wanted to Go on Living.”
Day of love and lovers, of hearts and roses red! Is Geoffrey Chaucer, the great poet-pilgrim of medieval England, to blame for this? Some say so: that it was he who transformed the ordinary enough feast day of an ordinary enough saint (what business does a saint have with all this hearts-and-roses stuff, anyway?) into a festival of courtly love.
The Slow Road North: How I Found Peace in an Improbable Country
Description From the acclaimed author of the "wonderfully funny and openhearted" (NPR) Drinking with Men comes a poignant, wrenching, and ultimately hopeful book--equal parts memoir and social history--that follows the author, after a series of tragic losses, to Northern Ireland, where she finds a path toward healing.
Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $35 (528p) ISBN 978-0-374-60327-4 This scintillating tour de force from poet Gumbs (Undrowned) traces the life of feminist poet Audre Lorde (1934–1992) in a free-ranging style as distinctive as its subject.
At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China
Edward Wong. Viking, $30 (464p) ISBN 978-1-9848-7740-6 The upheavals that drove China’s diaspora are revisited in this resonant and moving debut. New York Times journalist Wong recaps his father Yook Kearn’s experiences of China’s 20th-century tumults, beginning with the 1942 Japanese invasion that forced him from Hong Kong to his family’s ancestral village of Hap Wo in Guangdong province, where he weathered the war.
In Exile: Rupture, Reunion, and My Grandmother’s Secret Life
Sadiya Ansari. House of Anansi, $18.99 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-4870-1237-3 In this triumphant debut, journalist Ansari investigates a family mystery involving her grandmother. Growing up in a large Pakistani family in Toronto, Ansari had a complex relationship with her paternal grandmother, Tahira, who showed little interest in Ansari despite sharing a bedroom with her for years.
Left Behind: A New Economics for Neglected Places
Paul Collier. PublicAffairs, $32 (304p) ISBN 978-1-5417-0309-4 In this stimulating inquiry, Collier (The Future of Capitalism), a public policy professor at Oxford University, explores how to turn around the fortunes of economically distressed regions.
The Court v. the Voters: The Troubling Story of How the Supreme Court Has Undermined Voting Rights
Joshua A. Douglas. Beacon, $28.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-8070-1093-8 The Supreme Court has been undermining voting rights for 50 years, according to this full-throated critique. Legal scholar Douglas (Vote for US) not only covers major turning points like Shelby v. Holder, the 2013 case in which the court overruled the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and Citizens United v.
I Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies
Heidi Honeycutt. Headpress, $32.95 trade paper (456p) ISBN 978-1-915316-29-5 In this comprehensive debut study, journalist Honeycutt examines how contemporaneous attitudes toward women have shaped female filmmakers’ contributions to the horror genre.
The Mind’s Mirror: Risk and Reward in the Age of AI
The Mind’s Mirror: Risk and Reward in the Age of AI MIT computer scientist Rus and science writer Mone follow up The Heart and the Chip with a rosy assessment of how artificial intelligence might change society.
Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery
Theodore H. Schwartz. Dutton, $32 (512p) ISBN 978-0-593-47410-5 Neurosurgeon Schwartz’s excellent debut intersperses details about the history of brain surgery with background on what it’s like to perform the procedure.
A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda
Carrie Rickey. Norton, $29.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-393-86676-6 Film critic Rickey delivers the definitive biography of French filmmaker Agnès Varda (1928–2019). Born in Belgium, Varda fled the country after the Nazis invaded in 1940 and settled down in Paris several years later. There, Varda took photography classes and picked up gigs shooting portraits of children with Santa Claus.
What Does Baby Reindeer Have to Say about Bartending? A Lot.
A newsletter for the industry pro (or aspiring pro). A newsletter for the industry pro (or aspiring pro) looking for behind-the-scenes insights into bar and restaurant culture. Close Thank you for subscribing! Email A decade ago, during an otherwise quiet day shift at a neighborhood bar in Brooklyn, a man came in, ordered a shot of whiskey from me, and announced that he was the Angel of Death. But that wasn’t his most disturbing utterance.
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System
Wes Marshall. Island, $35 (344p) ISBN 978-1-64283-330-0 American drivers’ bad safety record can be attributed to poor street and highway design rather than personal error, according to this incisive debut polemic. Civil engineer Marshall lays out how transportation engineers have “designed and built a system that incites bad behavior and invites crashes” due to their overreliance on standards (e.g., roadway widths) that have little scientific basis.
Sharks Don’t Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist
Jasmin Graham, with Makeba Rasin. Pantheon, $28 (224p) ISBN 978-0-593-68525-9 In this inspiring debut memoir, marine biologist Graham discusses her trials and triumphs as a Black woman in the sciences. Growing up in South Carolina, Graham cultivated a love for the water while fishing with her father. After attending a marine science summer camp as a teenager, she resolved to pursue a career in the field.
Stowaway: The Disreputable Exploits of the Rat
Joe Shute. Bloomsbury Wildlife, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-1-3994-0250-7 In this entrancing report, Daily Telegraph columnist Shute (Forecast) considers humanity’s complex relationship with rats. In Paris, Shute reports on a public health project mapping the city’s rodent population, which found “the distribution of rats is... very patchy and tightly associated with human activity,” with few living in parks because of the presence of such predators as herons and foxes.
A Thanksgiving Lesson in Grace and Gratitude
Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT The Great Read I Never Said Thanks for the Meal. Sister Agnes Taught Me How. Photo The New York Times A Thanksgiving lesson about grace, and the many people who feed us. By Rosie Schaap Rosie Schaap is a writer based in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. When I was growing up in New York City, my family didn’t give thanks before we ate. Instead, our dinners sometimes began with a running gag.
LINKS - November 22nd, 2023
Welcome to LINKS — my attempt to provide Rhapsody readers with five interesting stories that tell us something about what it means to be human. LINKS is published every Wednesday. Have a link you want to share? Drop it in the comments. By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Scientific American ““I like to go by the USDA’s guidelines, but I am not a stickler to it,’ says Bryan Quoc Le, a food scientist and a faculty research fellow at Pacific Lutheran University and author of 150 Food Science Questions Answered.
A Thanksgiving Lesson in Grace and Gratitude
A Thanksgiving lesson about grace, and the many people who feed us. When I was growing up in New York City, my family didn’t give thanks before we ate. Instead, our dinners sometimes began with a running gag. My mother, the head of our secular Jewish household, would go unusually quiet and serious. “Let us say grace,” she’d start in a low voice, and my brother and I would seize the cue.
A List of the Best Books About the Best Bars Original
Every good bar merits a good storyteller, and here are ten books about ten saloons that got what they deserved. Literature is filled with great fictional bars, bartenders, and drunks-and cheers to them all.
Book Review: ‘Cocktails With a Curator,’ by Xavier F. Salomon with Aimee Ng and Giulio Dalvit
Book Review|Excuse Me, What Cocktail Would You Suggest With This Monet? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/books/review/cocktails-with-a-curator-xavier-f-salomon.html Nonfiction During the pandemic, curators at the Frick Gallery paired drinks with art in a YouTube series. Now they’ve done the same in a book. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share.
Songs of Innocence, Experience and a Galaxy Far, Far Away
Book Review|Songs of Innocence, Experience and a Galaxy Far, Far Away https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/03/books/review/william-blake-vs-the-world-john-higgs.html William Blake, “Songs of Innocence and of Experience,” Plate 2, Innocence Title Page (Bentley 3), 1789, left, and “Songs of Innocence and of Experience,” Plate 33, Experience Title Page (Bentley 29), 1794.Credit...Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection WILLIAM BLAKE VS.
Moo’s Manhattan Recipe
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The Winter 2013 Books Preview
It's shaping up to be a pretty big year for short stories, and for books from some notable, big-name authors who are returning with new fiction. Herewith, the list of the books we can't wait for. Jen Doll January 7, 2013 This article is from the archive of our partner . The new year brings new books, and new books to eagerly anticipate — for instance, Thomas Pynchon's upcoming book from Penguin Press, which has not a pub date (yet) but already is getting press.
Corpse Reviver No. 1 Recipe
This cocktail gets less love than its more popular sibling, the Corpse Reviver No. 2, but that shouldn’t be the case: the No. 1 is exceptionally elegant. The warmth of the brandy and the apple flavor of the Calvados combine to make it a natural for autumn drinking, but I wouldn’t turn it down any other time of year. Featured in: The Corpse Reviver Is As Good As Its Name.
Becoming a Sommelier
Becoming a Sommelier INTRODUCTION Thereâs a story in my family that dates my connection to wine to an early age. I must have been three or four years old. My parents took a quick vacation and left me in the care of their friend Pat, a glamorous and indulgent honorary aunt whom I adored. Imagine a sort of Mary Poppins typeâif Mary Poppins had been a patrician Back Bay Bostonian with expensive taste in wine, who drank a lot of it.
An Excerpt From Rosie Schaap’s New Book About Roger Dagorn
There’s a reason I’ve never suffered from a fear of sommeliers, and his name is Roger Dagorn.
A Working Night in the Life of a Poet-Turned-Sommelier
It’s half past four on a late September day, and “family meal” is winding down at Estela, a trendy restaurant in downtown Manhattan. Early autumn’s muted, late-afternoon sunlight laps in through the tall windows at the front of the room, giving the marble bar something like a halo, the scuffed-just-so rustic wooden floorboards a warm glow.
Rosé wine is ubiquitous in the summer. But ignore the backlash and drink what you love.
Have you heard? It’s rosé season! Of course you’ve heard. It’s what every sandwich board outside every wine and liquor store within a five-mile radius of my apartment (and yours) says. As soon as the temperature hits 70ish and the sun starts looking like it might stick around for a while, we are to drink nothing but pale pink wine. There is nothing wrong with drinking rosé; I’m not here to tell you not to drink rosé. I drink plenty of rosé.
Blackberry Corn Cobbler Recipe
Ingredients 4 tablespoons/60 grams very cold unsalted butter (1/2 stick), cut into cubes, plus more for greasing the pan 2 pounds/905 grams fresh, ripe blackberries (about 6 1/2 cups), lightly mashed with a potato masher 1 cup/200 grams granulated sugar, plus more as needed 1 ½ cups/190 grams all-purpose flour 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice 1 teaspoon kosher salt 2 large ears sweet yellow corn ⅓ cup/50 grams finely ground yellow cornmeal 1 ¼ teaspoons baking powder 2 tablespoons heavy cream...
Father’s Day Brunch
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Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire, England in 1963. He earned a BA from Portsmouth University in geography, and an MS in social work from Manchester University, where he studied the impact of televised violence on young offenders. He worked as a probation officer for six years before focusing on poetry. In 2015, he was elected Oxford Professor of Poetry and in 2017 he was appointed Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds. In 2019 he was named UK Poet Laureate.
Opinion | A good bar should look like "Abby's," which is full of good company
Get the Think newsletter. April 1, 2019, 9:15 PM GMT By Rosie Schaap, author The last time I went to O’Connor’s bar, the old timers (bless them) were trying to remember the names of all four of actor John Derek’s wives. In the daytime, O’Connor’s was dominated by salty Brooklyn lifers who’d seen it all. In its final years — the bar closed in 2011 — I’d often go there on weekday afternoons to write.
Mardi Gras
Julia Gartland for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Liza Jernow.
Warm Kale, Coconut and Tomato Salad Recipe
Ingredients 12 ounces cherry tomatoes, approximately 1 pint basket 3 to 4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil Kosher salt and freshly cracked black pepper to taste 2 to 3 limes, well scrubbed if waxed 12 ounces green or purple kale, approximately 2 heads, lower stalks removed and leaves torn into pieces ¼ cup unsweetened dehydrated shaved coconut 1 tablespoon soy sauce 1 inch fresh ginger root, peeled and grated, approximately 1 tablespoon 1 tablespoon white miso paste 1 tablespoon tahini 1...
Opinion | The Best New Year’s Eve Party Is in Seat 17A (Published 2018)
Sunday Opinion|The Best New Year’s Eve Party Is in Seat 17A https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/27/opinion/sunday/new-years-eve-party-travel.html Get on a plane. It will make the passage of time that much more palatable. Sign up for the Opinion Today newsletter Get expert analysis of the news and a guide to the big ideas shaping the world every weekday morning. When the clock struck midnight at the Oakland Coliseum on Jan.
Great Nonalcoholic New Year’s Drinks The Whole Family Can Enjoy
By Jennifer Brunton When it’s time to welcome the new year, consider spicing things up with tasty, innovative drinks that you’ll have a blast concocting. With these beverages and a gaggle of your best-loved characters — including the little ones — you’ll find the hottest party in town is happening at home this year. Here are some drinks basics to get your celebration on track without alcohol, plus a few tips for taking it to the next level.
Mulled Wine Recipe
Cons Poulos for The New York Times. Food Styling: Simon Andrews. If coziness has a fragrance, it’s the aroma of red wine simmering on the stove with citrus and spices (and a little brandy for a bit more zing). Choose a red wine that isn’t bone-dry—a little fruitiness is just fine here. I like the inexpensive Zweigelt from Erdenlied for this, which conveniently comes in 1-liter bottles.
7 gifts for hosts and hostesses that will make you a perfect guest
You were brought up right: You’d never show up at a someone’s home for a weekend in the country, a dinner party, or a holiday feast empty-handed. But stop it with the soaps and candles already! The best gifts are things your hosts never knew they needed, but will want to use every day. 1. BOWL: Perfect Pourer I’ve had a soft spot for Bennington Pottery ever since the 1990s, when I lived in the Vermont town where it’s made.
7 perfect presents for the discerning drinkers in your life
As a longtime bartender and a writer on the subject of spirits, I’ve given a lot of thought to gifts that would be welcome in any home bar (including my own). From apéritifs to tiki time, muddling to single malts, here are ideas to make every drink lover in your life tipsy with joy. 1. In print: A trio of boozy new books Books on the subject of drink made a strong showing this year.
Christmas Breakfast, 58 Recipes
Romulo Yanes for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Vivian Lui.
Apple Cider and Bourbon Punch Recipe
Jospeph De Leo for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Monica Pierini. Apples and oranges! They’re often presented as exemplars of opposition, as though they have nothing in common. But both fruits make appearances on many Thanksgiving tables, with orange in some cranberry sauces and cornbread stuffings with apple, and they mingle beautifully in a mellow punch that gets its verve from bourbon and its depth from a brown sugar and cinnamon simple syrup.
Where Have All the Tortured Punks Gone?
Outside Mars Bar, the late-afternoon sun pulsed marigold light on its facade, its slapdash signs, its layers of graffiti. But inside, God, was it dark: As far as I could tell, the whole place was lit by a single bare bulb. It was not yet 5 p.m. Even now, years later, just thinking about it makes my eyes strain to adjust to the gloom, like a mole rat, or maybe a mole rat in reverse.
Slices of Irish Life: Down at Johnny Joe’s Pub – Airbnb Magazine – Medium
At this bar in Northern Ireland, the pints flow freely as musicians play all the old favorites. Words by Rosie Schaap Photographs by Kenneth O’Halloran Illustrations by Antoine Corbineau A typical locals’ jam session at Johnny Joe’s THE SMALL VILLAGE OF CUSHENDALL on the Antrim coast of Northern Ireland has only a few landmarks. One is the stone Curfew Tower, where rioters were locked up long ago (now home to an artists’ residency). Another is Johnny Joe’s, a fifth-generation family-owned pub.
Celebrating Bloomsday, With James Joyce (and Other Irish Writers)
Readers picked up on the not-so-subtle nod to James Joyce’s “Ulysses” at the end of my June “Drink” column. Hey, it was hard to resist: for those who love the book, any walk around Dublin in some way evokes the company of Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus and others. It seems you can never get far without passing a landmark that appears in the novel. For example, in Dublin last month, I stayed for a few days with a friend who lives about a block away from the now-defunct Ormond Hotel.
Cocktails the Lazy Way, at the End of the Day
You don’t need a lot of ingredients or equipment to whip up a sophisticated antidote to a hard day’s work. Sweet vermouth topped up with seltzer tastes like the best soft drink ever. Clean, bright lemons and fat green olives rest in wooden bowls beside a paring knife and cutting board. A mixing glass and coupe have chilled for hours. There’s an unlimited supply of fresh, unblemished ice. With an almost contemplative intensity of focus, I make myself a martini. Someone else will do the cleaning up.
What Kind Of Soccer Fan Are You?
What Kind Of Soccer Fan Are You? A professor shattered the illusion of individuality in one brutally efficient pronouncement. He’d been talking about literary critic William Empson’s book Seven Types of Ambiguity, and at the end of class he said, “There are only seven types of people, too,” before gathering up his papers and books and heading out the door. His remark had a ring of truth; I shuddered to think which type I was.
Sazerac Recipe
Rye is absolutely vital in a Sazerac, among the most supernaturally alluring of drinks and frequently a bartender’s favorite. Peychaud’s bitters, which are made by the Sazerac Company in Louisiana, are asked for here, and are lighter than the more commonly found Angostura variety. If you can’t get your hands on some, try using your own favorite bitters. (The New York Times) Featured in: There’s A Reason That Rye Is Having A Moment.
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