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The Minimalist: Flavored Cooking Oil: Easier Than It Sounds - Flavored oils are invaluable summer ingredients, at home over salads, grilled vegetables, meat or fish. They’re also among the simplest exotic kitchen creations imaginable.
A Good Appetite: A Deviled Egg Is in the Details - Usually, deviled foods are highly spiced, but my go-to recipe for deviled eggs was neither spicy nor red. I liked the idea of tweaking it to be both.
Journeys: Chicago’s New Wave of Microbrews - With local beers popping up all over town, the city is experiencing a brewing renaissance.
Bites: Restaurant Review: Outerlands in San Francisco - This restaurant exists to refute the surrounding neighborhood gloom, or at least to offset it with fine food.
The Cheat: Comida Central - Nuyorican rice and beans — the official side dish of the five boroughs.
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 The best thing you can do to minimize your risk of identity theft is ensure that your personal information is secure. It is very often small acts of criminal mischief that result in years of hardship for individual consumers. Applying common sense can provide a measure of identity theft protection.1. Don't leave your financial paperwork lying around your house. Store paperwork with personally identifying information in a filing cabinet that is secured with a tamper-proof lock. 2. Never reveal any personal information to anyone who has called or e-mailed you. Ask them to send their request to you in writing through the mail. 3. Sign up for a credit monitoring service. It is a great way to track your credit improvement and stop identity theft. Additional Resources Proactive identity theft protection with Lifelock Monitor your credit score to track improvement and spot identity theft red flags |
Recipes for Health: Mediterranean Vegetable Pies - Rustic vegetable pies are a great way to work vegetables into your diet.
Refreshing by Definition - A guide to summer bartending, when the only frost is on the glass.
The Pour: A Beer, Please, and a (Good) Menu - Great beer abounds today in New York. But while aficionados yearn to have beer taken as seriously as wine, too often beer is presented in a context that diminishes the respect it deserves.
Mixing Drinks With Work and Staying Sober, Too - Although the hospitality industry has outgrown many of its hard-partying ways, nondrinkers and bar or restaurant work don’t always mix easily.
It’s Not So Mysterious: The Secret Is in the Swizzle - A category of cocktails that are not shaken or stirred, but rather swizzled with a genuine swizzle stick, snapped off a tree native to the Caribbean.
Restaurants: Back on the Road to Southeast Asia - Sloppiness has crept in at Spice Market, Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s Asian mega-restaurant in Manhattan’s meatpacking district.
Feed Me: Finding the Soul Mate for Suppl - Suppl al telefono, stuffed rice balls that are breaded and fried, are a classic Roman snack and a good match for an aperitif.
Hoping to Generate a Bit More Buzz - The Beekeepers Ball, held Monday night at the Water Taxi Beach in the South Street Seaport, drew advocates for local beekeeping along with their friends, many in costume.
$25 and Under: Rice for Royalty, on a Peasant’s Budget - In New York, a good biryani is hard to find, but several eating places are trying to restore the glory of that South Asian rice dish.
Food Stuff: Prepared Food With a Difference - Shops selling prepared food that I would be happy to serve are about as rare as the spotted owl. But I am adding Bklyn Larder to the short list.
Food Stuff: A Couple of Gins With Attitude - Two new gins had me puzzled. They’re intriguing and distinctive, but with too much swagger to be used in martinis. How, then, to use them?
Food Stuff: Weekend Wine Tours of Long Island - Exploring Long Island’s wineries is a nice weekend excursion. To help with the planning it is worth consulting “Long Island Wine Country.”
Discounts Have Restaurants Eating Own Lunch - Heavy discounting at casual dining restaurants is leading to tensions between independent franchisees and the corporate officers who control the brands, menus, advertising and strategy.
Off the Menu - Restaurant news from around the city.
Dining Calendar - Dining events around the city.
A Grim Morning After for Australian Wines - Once booming, Australian wine exports have dropped both in price and volume, leading to some soul searching about what went wrong.
Well: How the Food Makers Captured Our Brains - A recipe for indulging: salt, sugar and fat, mixed many ways. But we can fight it.
The Pulse of Summer: Blender Drinks Are Back - Around the country, some bars are dusting off the blender and even giving it a place of honor.
Sodas of The Times: A Drink in Search of a Frosty Mug - Few sodas have the mystique of a cold mug of root beer. People love it or they hate it, but they don’t ignore it.
Reflections in an Ice Cube: The Drinks of Memory - The right summer drink at the right moment feels like a lifeline and can stamp itself on the memory for years.
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| The best thing you can do to minimize your risk of identity theft is ensure that your personal information is secure. It is very often small acts of criminal mischief that result in years of hardship for individual consumers. Applying common sense can provide a measure of identity theft protection. 1. Don't leave your financial paperwork lying around your house. Store paperwork with personally identifying information in a filing cabinet that is secured with a tamper-proof lock. 2. Never reveal any personal information to anyone who has called or e-mailed you. Ask them to send their request to you in writing through the mail. 3. Sign up for a credit monitoring service. It is a great way to track your credit improvement and stop identity theft. Additional Resources Proactive identity theft protection with Lifelock Monitor your credit score to track improvement and spot identity theft red flags |
A Good Appetite: A Garlic Festival Without a Single Clove - My family’s worship of garlic inspired a celebration — a vampire-repelling repast showcasing garlic in its many incarnations.