Obituaries
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Ira von Fürstenberg, Jet-Setting Princess and Actress, Dies at 83
With her aristocratic lineage, high-profile husbands and famous friends, she embodied a chic life of luxury as an international social…
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Malachy McCourt, Actor, Memoirist and Gadabout, Dies at 92
Playing the professional Irishman, he returned from Limerick to New York, where he tended bar, appeared in soap operas, wrote…
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When Canceling Your Reservation Costs as Much as Dinner
To celebrate his wife’s birthday in 2022, Brian Azara, a mechanical engineer in New York City, booked a table for…
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A New Era for the Golden Mall
Once the pre-eminent food court in Flushing, Queens, for a variety of regional Chinese cuisines, this mall has reopened after…
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Your Grilled Cheese Needs Toum
Just as your leeks need miso, and as your barley soup could use some kielbasa.
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Kathy Goldman, Who Fought Hunger in New York City, Dies at 92
She helped introduce free breakfasts and lunches for schoolchildren and open pantries and soup kitchens for the poor.
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The Coolest Menu Item at the Moment Is … Cabbage?
If I were a vegetable, I would hire cabbage’s brand manager. Cabbage has spent an eternity as the workhorse of…
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Luscious Miso Leeks With White Beans
Hetty Lui McKinnon’s satisfying take on leeks vinaigrette combines silky leeks with a mustardy miso dressing and creamy white beans.
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Petra Mathers, Author Whose Children’s Stories Soared, Dies at 78
Her winsome animal characters and their comic adventures expressed universal truths and feelings, rendered in a naïve and often surrealistic…
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Howard Hiatt, 98, Dies; Steered Public Health Toward Greater Accountability
A physician, scientist and academic, he brought together experts across disciplines to focus on the economic, political and social causes…