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☆ A YouTuber recreated a recipe for 3,800-year-old beer. Here's how you can do it too.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-16 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

AdvertisementThe basic ingredients for an ancient beerMax Miller relied on a hymn and expert research to try and create an ancient beer. To make his version, Miller used water, barley, barley flour, a sourdough starter, coriander, cardamom, date syrup, and brewer's yeast. Some experts aren't sure if ancient beer was even alcoholic at all. Ancient beer is different from today's alesDon't expect your hymn-inspired homebrew to resemble anything you can buy at the store. There's also no evidence that ancient beer makers used hops, which is a ubiquitous ingredient today.

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☆ The Kate Middleton-approved brand Me+Em is expanding to the US. I visited its NYC flagship and saw why the royals love it.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Samantha Grindell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The UK-based fashion brand Me+Em has become a royal favorite in recent years. Kate Middleton has reworn a pink dress from Me+Em to royal engagements, and Meghan Markle sported a jacket from the brand in 2020. Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh, was even spotted wearing the same Me+Em dress Queen Camilla owns in 2023, as Hello! Samantha Grindell/Business InsiderThe mirror was huge, and the lighting was built into the walls to save space. After seeing the Me+Em store and its clothes, I understood why it had charmed the royals.

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☆ The FAA found staff at Boeing's supplier using liquid Dawn soap as lubricant for a 737 Max door seal: NYT
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Mechanics at a Boeing supplier used liquid soap as a lubricant to fit a 737 Max door seal, per NYT. The instance was mentioned in a document discussing FAA audits of Boeing and its supplier, per NYT. This particular supplier, Spirit AeroSystems, is in charge of building the 737 Max's fuselage. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. AdvertisementThe Federal Aviation Administration auditors saw mechanics for a Boeing supplier using liquid Dawn soap as a lubricant for fitting a door seal, The New York Times reported.

Persons: —, Mark Walker, Max, Dave Calhoun Organizations: Boeing, Service, Aviation Administration, New York Times, FAA, The Times, Alaska Airlines, Times, Business, Spirit

☆ She fled Ukraine and found belonging with her Russian boxing coach in America
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-08 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

Akimova found her footing in a boxing gym run by a Russian trainer who became a grounding force. A Ukrainian refugee named Anzelika Akimova enters her fighting stance at the Eastern Block Boxing gym in Los Angeles. At the Eastern Block Boxing gym in Los Angeles, Russians and Ukrainians alike come to train. Before their paths aligned at Eastern Block Boxing, Poddubnov fought as an amateur boxer in Russia. Salman Poddubnov opened the boxing gym after a stint in prison, where he trained fellow inmates.

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☆ A Love of Pomegranates, and a Perfect Baked Fish for Rosh Hashana
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Joan Nathan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

(Nimrod, according to biblical legend, was a great-grandson of Noah.) For Mr. Halahmy and many others, pomegranates are also a major part of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, which this year begins at sundown on Sept. 15 and ends Sept. 17. “Pomegranates remind me of Mesopotamia, my ancestral home, whether I am in Jerusalem, Baghdad or New York,” Mr. Halahmy said. “Rosh Hashana starts in Babylon with pomegranates,” he said. Mr. Halahmy included these memories and customs in a self-published cookbook called “Iraqi Cooking: Exile Is Home,” which calls for pomegranates in stews, soups and sorbets.

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☆ The Best Juicers and Juice Machines for More Refreshing Mornings
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Grace Elkus | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +19 min

The orange juice was also a little pulpy and separated overnight—a common occurrence with both centrifugal juicers we tested. Others you should know aboutGreat multiuse juicerKuvings’s 4-in-1 masticating juicer comes with attachments to make smoothies, sorbets and nut milks, too. Masticating juicers use a rotating, screw-shaped augur to crush and press fresh produce to extract juice, while centrifugal juicers rely on a high-speed spinning metal blade to pulverize produce into a mesh filter. Masticating juicers are slower and cost more, but often have higher yields and are therefore less wasteful (which we found to be true in our testing). Centrifugal juicers are faster and more powerful, but create foamier juice that’s more likely to separate.

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☆ How 32-year-old Katherine Homuth built the Y Combinator-backed startup behind the 'indestructible' Sheertex tights that are taking the hosiery industry by storm
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Madeline Renbarger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Homuth had to find a brand new fiber and build her own supply chain to create Sheertex tights. At least that's what SRTX founder and CEO Katherine Homuth, whose core product line is Sheertex tights, thought back in 2017. Before founding SRTX, Homuth had gained tons of supply chain experience starting another company in 2011 called ShopLocket, which focused on ecommerce sales support. It took another year-and-a-half, but by the end of 2019, Sheertex tights were finally as comfortable as Homuth had originally intended. These days, Homuth is focused on expanding SRTX's product line, so that the company is known for more than just making Sheertex tights.

☆ A former lawyer bought an entire Italian village and transformed it into a thriving tourist destination — here's how
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Claire Turrell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Cesidio Di Ciacca bought his ancestral village in Italy in 2013 and turned it into a business. Many former residents settled in Scotland, as the Di Ciacca family did. After buying the home, Di Ciacca went on to own the entire village and run it as a business. "One year into the renovation, I started to get itchy and look at how I could buy I Ciacca," Di Ciacca said. Di Ciacca's wife, Selina Di Ciacca, suggested they make it a place of learning again.

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