It’s a well-known fact that the time between 3 and 5 o’clock in the afternoon is a liminal space (as well as the scariest time of day to ride the subway — all of those teenagers!). It’s too late for lunch, too early for dinner. But it’s the Goldilocks hour for a little treat. That…
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. At first, I had nothing more than a rant in mind. It was January, and I had been to two restaurants in the span of a single week that had served me steak fries, first…
Steak fries. Two words, so promising apart, so dreadful together. Plank-like in shape and wan in complexion, they sit uncomfortably between genus “fry” and genus “baked potato,” lacking the crunch of the former and the richness of the latter. So totally have they lost the war for the American palette that every encounter with a…
Babies are not ordinarily a fixture of closed-door White House meetings. But when Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, convened a group of women this month for a discussion on nutrition and other topics, a healthy-eating activist who calls herself “the Food Babe” was stunned to see President Trump’s press secretary with her eight-month-old…
