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It’s funny to look back at my cookbook and notice what was trending in 2017/18 — both on a whole in the culinary world, and just in my kitchen. Poke bowls were HOT (still are!) so there’s a fantastic poke recipe in there. Tahini plays a starring role throughout the cookbook, which fits as a trip to Israel was one of my major highlights of 2017. I still love tahini — longtime subscribers know that it’s been the lead in many What To Cook recipes (might I suggest the seared tuna with sesame noodles?

I’m not sure why it took me so long to make a video of my most famous recipe of all time, but here we are… and here it is…! This recipe for Roasted Tomato and White Bean Stew couldn’t be easier to make and equals much more than the sum of its parts. It originally appeared (and still lives) on NYT Cooking, but Chad and I thought it was about time to bring it to life.

Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he’d call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house, Speaking indifferently to him,

A 5-year-old began composing “Everlasting Love” in 1946. While watching a singer perform in college, he was inspired to complete the song he started in kindergarten, and offered the song to that singer. Like most songs that are fortunate to have covers recorded by many, some were hits, and some were misses. Here’s one of the song’s two composers performing it in 2013: “Everlasting Love” (first recorded in 1967) has been no different: With 73 covers, it’s one of only 2 songs to have entered the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, and is the only song to have become a UK Top 40 hit in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, reaching the Top 20 in every decade except the 1980s.

He grew up on University Avenue in the Bronx, graduating from the then-brand new Bronx High School of Science in 1942, where he was valedictorian, or anyway speaker at graduation; he later insisted on making clear he did not have the highest grade-point average. In 1948 he graduated from New York University, where he majored in English. In between he served in the Army Air Corps. He was struggling to learn how to fly a plane at Tyndall Field in Panama City, Florida, when World War II ended.

Paul Rudd, nearly 30 years into his acting career, has kept up his reputation as one of the more universally liked figures in Hollywood, equally comfortable in Marvel movies, serious dramas, and broad comedies like Anchorman.  In November of 2008 — days after the election of Barack Obama, and 15 years ago today — Rudd debuted his best comedy of all, David Wain’s Role Models. The film succeeded in combining the DNA of an inspirational mentorship movie with that of a broad comedy, one that offered Rudd as he’s rarely been seen before or since.

Good morning! Today is Monday, June 24, 2024. You’re reading The Charlotte Ledger, an e-newsletter with local business-y news and insights for Charlotte, N.C. Need to subscribe — or upgrade your Ledger e-newsletter subscription? Details here. Today’s Charlotte Ledger is sponsored by T.R. Lawing Realty: Inside Trope Bookshop, a mobile romance bookstore, owner Katie Mitchell organizes the shelves around “tropes,” or how the plot is structured. Mitchell drives the converted school bus around Charlotte, parking outside of coffee shops, breweries, street markets and more.

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