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☆ Paneer Chile Dry is Spicy and Sticky, Crisp and Melting
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Melissa Clark | More About Melissa Clark | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

“Fried cheese,” he said, without missing a beat. The only fried cheese I knew of at the time was the mozzarella sticks at sports bars. Mozzarella sticks got love too; his devotion to fried cheese was vast and deep. He’d adore Zainab Shah’s new recipe for paneer chile dry (above), a dish of shallow-fried paneer cubes with a peppery, gingery ketchup-soy sauce. Served on both sides of the Pakistani-Indian border, it’s spicy and sticky, crisp and melting, and you can even swap out the cheese for tofu.

Persons: Zainab Shah’s Locations: New York

☆ Carlos Alcaraz beats Novak Djokovic in 5 sets to win Wimbledon for his second major trophy
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-16 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +11 min

The age gap between the two was the widest in any men's Slam final since 1974. Still, this is all relatively new to him: Djokovic's record 35th Grand Slam final was Alcaraz's second. Yet it was Alcaraz who won a 32-pointCarlos Alcaraz said he wanted another shot at Novak Djokovic. The age gap between the two was the widest in any men's Slam final since 1974. He's used these sorts of intermissions to gather himself and shift momentum and, sure enough, he pushed this terrific match to a fifth set.

Persons: Spain's Carlos Alcaraz, Serbia's Novak Djokovic, Glyn KIRK, GLYN KIRK, Carlos Alcaraz, Novak Djokovic, Said, Alcaraz, Djokovic, He's, pointCarlos Alcaraz, Novak, Fergus Murphy, —, That's, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, enders, I've, Spain's King Felipe VI Organizations: England Tennis Club, Getty, Wimbledon, All England Club, Court, Australian, Spaniard Locations: Wimbledon, London, AFP, Serbia, Spain

This is a 90-minute movie that doesn’t have the bonkers ideas, imagery or attitude to justify the five-plus hours it asks us to pay. But you know, that first episode seemed like it was really up to and onto something. We’re taken inside the hothouse of American celebrity to watch as it wilts beneath the California sun. An important joke is that the horror filmmaker Eli Roth is here, jittering in a small, pretty decent part. And dramaturgically speaking — to quote Jeremy Strong, an actor I’d rather be watching on Sunday nights — “The Idol” is curiously inert.

Persons: WESLEY MORRIS I’m, Jim, it’s, Eli Roth, Tedros Tedros, Lolita ”, Jocelyn, LINDSAY ZOLADZ, I’m, Jeremy Strong, I’d, can’t, Rachel Sennott, Marnie Michaels, plopped, Joy Randolph Organizations: wilts

☆ A YouTuber says he built a hybrid, diesel-powered Tesla with more than 1,000 miles of range — but it's ridiculously loud
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Tim Levin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A YouTuber says he created a Tesla hybrid that has more than 1,000 miles of range. YouTuber Warped Perception's hybrid Tesla. YouTuber Warped Perception's hybrid Tesla. All told, the Tesla hybrid got around 35 miles to the gallon, according to Mikka's calculations. Mikka told Insider he spent years conceptualizing the design.

Persons: Matt Mikka, Mikka, Tesla, he's Organizations: Environmental Protection Agency

☆ They Saw the Horrific Aftermath of a Mass Shooting. Should We?
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Jay Kirk | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +12 min

Jeff decided that he and Sam would be the only two permitted to have phones inside, in order to limit photographs. It was something Jeff learned to do from the nurses at Bristol Hospital a million years ago when he was a paramedic. He had already made the mistake when one fluttered out as he was dumping an uneaten lunch into the trash. They would set up staging tables in the tent for mass processing of the evidence, nothing they’d ever done at this scale. The problem was that during these interruptions it was not as if they could just step outside for a break.

☆ Superyacht chef says life at sea serving the uber-rich is far from glamorous — from 'boat bites' and grueling 18-hour days to a guest who asked to 'heat the Adriatic'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-19 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Former yacht chef Melanie White revealed what it's like to work at sea in a tell-all book. "We dwell on the threshold of the rich and famous," White wrote in a tell-all book about the industry that was released in October. Courtesy of Melanie WhiteIn the book, White breaks down the often grueling experience, which included working 18-hour days cleaning bathrooms and guest quarters. In the book, White compared her role to that of a fairy, magically and nearly invisibly doing tasks to please guests. Courtesy of Melanie White"The success of a business or boat lives and dies with the compatibility of the employees," White wrote.

☆ ‘Dinner With the President’ Review: Bread-and-Butter Issues
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Moira Hodgson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

In 2019 Donald Trump held a much-publicized banquet for the Clemson Tigers football team in the State Dining Room of the White House. He posed before a large table piled high with Quarter Pounders, a portrait of Lincoln behind him. But Mr. Trump had made a shrewd political move. As Mr. Prud’homme writes: “The critics’ howls . Bush (who was such a WASP that he sometimes ate cereal for dinner) claimed to be a fan of pork rinds splashed with Tabasco sauce.

☆ Superyacht chef shows life at sea serving the world's richest is far from glamorous — from grueling 18-hour days to a guest who asked to 'heat the Adriatic'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-25 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Former yacht chef Melanie White revealed what it's like to work at sea in her new tell-all book. Melanie White working on a superyacht. Courtesy of Melanie WhiteIn the book, White details the often grueling experience, which included working 18-hour days cleaning bathrooms and guest quarters. In the book, White compared her role to that of a fairy, magically and nearly invisibly doing tasks to please guests. Courtesy of Melanie White"The success of a business or boat lives and dies with the compatibility of the employees," White wrote.

☆ A weed gummy theory for the Fed’s high-stakes interest rate gamble
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Here’s the thing: The Fed right now is wearing blinders, and it only cares about bringing down inflation, my colleague Paul R. La Monica writes. The Weed Gummy TheoryThere’s an analogy offered by investment analyst Peter Boockvar last month that I can’t stop thinking about. He compared the Fed to an eager but inexperienced consumer of weed gummies, which, notoriously, take longer than anyone expects to kick in. Bankruptcies: Rate hikes make it more expensive for companies to pay down debt, increasing the risk of corporate bankruptcies and defaults. The so-called PPI, which tracks what suppliers charge other businesses for goods and services, showed prices going up 8.5% from a year ago.

☆ Biden says he plans to run for reelection in 2024, but here's one reporter's lesson from 2008 on why anything is possible
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-17 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

He said there was no chance of him becoming vice president. They're real," Biden told me that afternoon. Mark Bowden later asked Biden, then vice president, in his West Wing office about that marathon quote. "That was absolutely, positively true when I said it," Biden told him. I never, never, never, never aspired to be vice president.

☆ A Colombian buyer just spent over $10 million on 6 Miami condos before they were even built as some South Americans rush to protect their wealth
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-04 | by ( Zoe Rosenberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Colombians are searching for Miami properties this year more than any other country's residents. COVID-19 caused a shift in preference from commercial to residential real estate as an investment. They see Miami real estate as a safe investmentWhy the turn to US real estate now? They see opportunity in residential real estate, as opposed to commercial real estate, like offices and retail spaces. "People were waiting to see who the next president was going to be, but now they're very afraid," Gomez said of Cipriani's Colombian buyers.

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