By Sara Moulton The Associated Press Until pretty recently, there was nothing sexy about cauliflower. Boiled or steamed, it’s bland at best. And if you overcook it, you’d better duck or suffer the smell of dirty diapers. But roasting or sauteing cauliflower is a different story. The veggie’s natural sugars […]
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The Associated Press LONDON — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump wanted to praise his daughter on Twitter instead he accidentally sent his message to another Ivanka. Trump retweeted a message from a Twitter user that said his daughter was “great, a woman with real character and class.” But the user tagged […]
By The Culinary Institute Of America The Associated Press Though students at The Culinary Institute of America face a seemingly endless to-do list, central to their course work is recipe and menu development. At the CIA, food is life, and even the best-managed restaurant is nothing without flavourful, exciting, and […]
By Pan Pylas The Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland — The gap between the super-rich and the poorest half of the global population is starker than previously thought, with just eight men, from Bill Gates to Michael Bloomberg, owning as much wealth as 3.6 billion people, according to an analysis by […]
By Liz Weston The Associated Press Most retirement advice has a flaw: It’s being given by people who haven’t yet retired. So I asked money experts who have quit the 9-to-5 for their best advice on how to prepare for retirement. They still faced curveballs when it was their turn. […]
The Associated Press NEW YORK — A 12-year-old New York City boy is accused of pulling a gun on a classmate and demanding that she give him her chicken nugget. Police say the boy first approached the girl inside a McDonald’s in Harlem on Tuesday and asked her for one […]
By Andrea RodriguezAlicia A. Caldwell And Julie Pace The Associated Press HAVANA — The Cuban government hailed President Barack Obama’s decision ending automatic legal residency for any Cuban who touches U.S. soil, while ordinary citizens mourned the end of an easy pathway to a new life in the United States. […]
The Associated Press JIAXING, China — A factory in eastern China has been doing a brisk business selling giant inflatable roosters, some as tall as 16 feet, based on a design widely perceived to resemble President-elect Donald Trump. Yifang Inflatables, a factory in the city of Jiaxing, near Shanghai, began […]
By Marcia Dunn The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronauts took another spacewalk Friday to plug in new and better batteries outside the International Space Station. It’s the same type of job that was conducted last Friday 250 miles above Earth. Commander Shane Kimbrough was back at it, but […]
By Janet McConnaughey The Associated Press Luke and Hillary Gardner never have a problem remembering each other’s birthday. After all, the husband and wife were born the same day. And so was their son, 27 years later this past December. The odds of that happening are about one in 133,000, […]
By Josh Boak And Carrie Antlfinger The Associated Press MILWAUKEE — Baby Boomers: your millennial children are worse off than you. With a median household income of $40,581, millennials earn 20 per cent less than boomers did at the same stage of life, despite being better educated, according to a […]
The Associated Press Cellebrite, a digital forensics firm known for helping law enforcement crack into locked smartphones, has itself fallen victim to hackers. Technology news website Motherboard said Thursday that it had obtained 900 gigabytes of data related to the Israel-based company. It said the trove of data includes customer […]
