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The smoky, cheesy lentils I keep making

So much aspirational frugal cooking quietly assumes you have endless time, energy and executive function to devote to homemade bread, all-day braises and deeply involved kitchen projects. Sometimes what you actually need is a recipe that respects your exhaustion while…
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Taylor, Travis and the cone of silence

Nature abhors a vacuum, but it’s got nothing on celebrity media, which has spent the last year buzzing with rumor, speculation, and snark about the closest thing to a royal wedding in the United States since JFK Jr. and Carolyn…
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How a food writer grocery shops on a budget

I think a lot of people assume food writers and recipe developers cook in a state of endless abundance: casually tossing expensive cheeses into their carts, buying armfuls of herbs without checking the price, somehow always having fancy citrus in…
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Spirit Airlines collapses after bailout efforts fail

Spirit Airlines has ceased operations after a failed rescue effort collapsed, ending the airline’s 34-year run and leaving thousands of workers and travelers facing immediate disruption at the start of peak summer travel planning. The shutdown of Spirit Airlines follows…
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The sex ed icon who won’t go quietly

Surveying the massive archive of tapes tightly nestled in her Manhattan apartment, Robin Byrd — the New York cable-access icon whose hour-long, X-rated variety program, “The Robin Byrd Show,” lit up metro-area television sets every week — pulls a few…
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