Betül Tunç’s massive online popularity — she’s the culinary whiz behind the Instagram account @turkuazkitchen — was due to baby blues. A few years back, Tunç, a recent immigrant from Erzurum, Turkey, found herself living in the US with her husband, newborn son and a shaky grasp of English. “I was so alone, I was … Read more
Stacks of books have been written about the kings and queens of England and Henry the Eighth. But few books have chronicled the lesser-known side-characters in history until now with Adrian Bliss’s humorous – albeit strange new book, “The Greatest Nobodies of History [Ballantine Books]. Bliss is no historian. Rather, he’s a well known British … Read more
The Greenland shark is the oldest vertebrate on the planet, capable of living hundreds of years in cold waters thousands of feet deep. It is also uniquely smelly. Its body is designed to have the same salt concentration as the ocean — such that it neither loses nor gains water through osmosis — so it has to … Read more
When Charles Lindbergh’s 20-month-old son was kidnapped in 1932 and his corpse was found two months later, it was considered the crime of the century. It took nearly three years before the boy’s abductor was caught, but the Federal Bureau of Investigation had nothing to do with the investigation or arrest, for two reasons. First, kidnapping … Read more
In her new book, “Mao’s America: A Survivor’s Warning,” anti-communist advocate Xi Van Fleet recounts all the troubling signs indicating that America’s present is rapidly coming to resemble China’s Maoist past. She should know. Xi was in school when the Cultural Revolution burst upon the Chinese landscape in 1966 with all the violence of a … Read more
In 1866, a group of New York’s finest decided that their fair city needed a museum. It would be a big museum. An important museum. A “national” museum that would bring great art and art education to the American people. A museum like the National Gallery in London, or the Louvre in Paris. (Never mind that … Read more
Each May, Hollywood glitterati descend upon Cannes for its annual Film Festival, which features — along with actors, directors and models — the Hotel Martinez at the center of the opulent affair. Film festival jury members snag luxurious rooms and suites within this historic Art Deco palace, the crown jewel of the French Riviera, which … Read more
Dorothy Parker did not like movies. She did not like Hollywood. And she really did not like the people who ran it. The native New Yorker — whose witty, urbane writing helped define the Roaring Twenties — couldn’t even deign to utter the words Los Angeles; she called it “out there.” Yet in 1929, at … Read more
When Navajo Ranger Stanley Milford Jr and partner Jon Dover were assigned to the department for investigating paranormal activity in Arizona and Utah’s Monument Valley, the pair couldn’t believe it. “Oh my goodness, we’re going to be like The X-Files,” said Dover. But as Milford reveals in ‘The Paranormal Ranger – A Navajo Investigator’s Search for … Read more
Seems like every town in America hosts some sort of food festival these days. There’s the quirky ones, like the Gilroy Garlic Festival, first launched in 1979, and the Waikiki Spam Jam, formerly held in Austin, Minn., home of Hormel Foods. Then there are the mac daddies, like Taste of Chicago, the country’s biggest, which … Read more
When John Madden began calling his local San Francisco radio station in 1997, it signaled the start of nearly 20 years of conversations between the football legend and morning-show host Stan Bunger, as the presenter writes in “Mornings With Madden: My Radio Life with an American Legend’ (Triumph Books, out Tuesday). John Madden’s iconic Morning Madness … Read more
Before pet cemeteries became a thing in the mid-19th century, few options existed for disposing of a beloved dog or cat (or parrot or monkey). In Paris, 5,000 dead animals a year were tossed in the Seine, while north of London 750 deceased dogs a week were taken for “rendering” and turned into manure. But when … Read more
The $700 million Taystee Lab Building sits in the Manhattanville Factory District, but the laboratory goes beyond West Harlem’s manufacturing history. Surrounded by brick buildings on West 126th Street, Taystee spans 11 floors, with glass windows that overlook Columbia University and the City College of New York. Inside any of the currently vacant labs, a … Read more
Ina Garten’s first foray into television was a disaster. Martha Stewart’s TV production company approached the beloved culinary personality to host a show following the success of “The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook.” The book, published in 1999, was a surprise best-seller, selling more than 100,000 copies in its first year. Garten recalls in her memoir, “Be … Read more
Each week, The Post compiles the buzziest new books. Have a look at our favorite titles in recent weeks. This week’s best new books Michel Houellebecq (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)The latest from the celebrated French writer is set in a chaotic, troubled France in the year 2027. Paul Raison, an adviser to the country’s financial minister, … Read more
Gladwell’s new book explores how individuals can use power and influence to shape the collective narratives we tell ourselves as groups or as a society to steward policies and perspectives. Source link #Malcolm #Gladwells #vision #world #ahead #lives #tipped
Over the course of his 50 years in cinema, Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar has been offered countless deals from publishers to write his memoir – but he has always rejected them, as the two-time Oscar-winner explains in his new book “The Last Dream” (HarperVia). “I’ve been asked to write my autobiography more than once, and I’ve … Read more
Coming this fall, residents in Stockholm won’t have to endure the hour-long commute by car or train between Ekerö, a popular suburb, and central Stockholm, home to the historic City Hall. Instead, they can jump on a 30-passenger ferry and make the journey in half the time, all while helping to cut down on carbon … Read more
On Oct. 26, 1957, Reinhold Kulle and his family departed on the MS Italia from Cuxhaven, Germany, destined for a new life in America. But as Michael Soffer reveals in “Our Nazi: An American Suburb’s Encounter with Evil” (University of Chicago Press), Kulle carried a dark secret. Throughout World War II, Kulle had not only been a … Read more
In the Swinging Sixties, one of the most popular commodities on male-dominated Wall Street was Ms. Francine Gottfried’s torpedo-like breasts. Worn proudly under a tight sweater, Ms. Gottfried had her size 43s innocently on view every workday when the 20-year-old arrived from her home in Brooklyn, to her lowly data processing job on The Street. … Read more