Category: Lifestyle

A growing number of men across the country are picking up an unlikely hobby – knitting – and changing the face of the knitting world in the process. Jarrett Matthews was sitting on a crowded bus in Queens, N.Y., quickly and delicately maneuvering a ball of mauve yarn with two knitting needles, creating the beginnings […]

Scientist parents don’t necessarily check their analytical minds at the nursery door. Some of them look on the common problems of parenting as an intellectual puzzle that needs to be solved. Physicist Dan Sisan tried everything to get his newborn daughter to stop crying – feeding her, rocking, hugging, singing, giving her a swing. Nothing […]

Micro greens, once the domain of haute cuisine, are now ready to grow in kitchens everywhere. Consumers who want to eat organically and locally are being turned on to the ultimate homegrown crop, and the kitchen farming industry is responding. A farmer gazes out upon a lush field of greens. The arugula, amaranth and basil, […]

While books about food are flying off the shelves and cooking shows are hot, people are increasingly relying on their microwaves to make dinner. Cooking is becoming more recreational and less a necessity. On a recent Saturday morning, Katrina Gleich and her boyfriend, Mike Shur, celebrated their one-year anniversary at CAMAJE, a bistro in New […]

Solitary expeditions to the ends of the earth – those glorified by Shackleton, Peary, and Sir Edmund Hillary – are being replaced by interactive trips built around streaming video, blog updates and Internet sites that document every trial, travail and observation of a new generation of explorers. The seasoned explorer Jon Bowermaster has kayaked on […]

The wedding cake has been a matrimonial staple since medieval times. Now, high-end cake designers are serving up more colorful, more elaborate, more personalized – and more expensive – wedding cakes than ever before. The cake soared five tiers, some of them carrot, some double chocolate. The icing, in deep blues and greens, was etched […]

It takes one look around any lecture hall or office to make you believe that the ink pen’s days are numbered. But the trusted writing instrument is not ready to roll off the table yet. In the United States and abroad, the fountain pen – the fancier and more respectable cousin of cheap ballpoints – […]

In the name of melting off pounds, would you inject a hormone extracted from a pregnant woman’s urine? Even one that studies show does nothing to help weight loss? Based on anecdotal evidence, more and more dieters are saying “yes.” Almost every morning last month, Leigh Cordiner, a Floridian living in the US Virgin Islands, […]