Recipes

If rainy days have got you down, these fun things are sure to cheer you up.Come hungry this week, a taco battle at Merkado, Bollywood night at Besharam, a Singapore cocktail pop-up at True Laurel, a new menu at The Dorian, and an AAPI chef collab series at Nisei. Plus, West Coast Craft, Bill Maher, Vance Joy, and more.Have a good one! See on Instagram Mondays are less scary now that SPQR is serving dinner. Hate to cook on the first night of the work week and can't find an open restaurant? The Fillmore Street favorite is now kicking it...

Edgar H. Schein, a social psychologist who bridged the academic and pragmatic sides of culture and organization by practicing his own tenets on humble leadership and inquiry, died Jan. 26. He was 94. Schein, who was the Society of Sloan Fellows professor of management emeritus at MIT Sloan, joined the school in 1956, when it was still known as the MIT School of Industrial Management. During his 67-year tenure, Schein authored dozens of books on social science subjects including career dynamics, organization culture, group dynamics, and interpersonal interactions. His three-tiered model of organization culture and writings on relationships and trust...

Dwyane Wade, celebrating his 15-year-old trans daughter who just legally became Zaya: "As your father, all I’ve wanted to do was get it right. I’ve sat back and watched how gracefully you’ve taken on the public scrutiny, and even though it’s not easy, I watched you walk out of that house every morning as yourself. I admire how you’ve handled the ignorance in our world. I admire what you face every day. As your father, my job isn’t to create a version of myself or direct your future, my role is to be a facilitator to your hopes, your wishes,...

Inspired by a recipe on Linda Genaw’s site, I decided to take a combination of Indian ingredients and throw them into a new scrambled egg dish and discovered it is DELICIOUS!  Panch Puran is made with either 5 spices (and goes by that name), or with 7 spices).  It is a common Bengali and East Indian spice.  I have the 7-spice blend which is a mixture of cumin, nigella (kalongi or onion seed) , anise (fennel), fenugreek seed, mustard seed, cloves and allspice.   The 5-spice mix omits the cloves and allspice.  NOTE: this is not the 5-spice powder used in...

iPhone maker Foxconn has plans to invest $700 million in a new plant in India. With that, the company could ramp up local iPhone production and even be responsible for assembling Apple's upcoming headsets in the country. The information comes from Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter. This plan comes at a time when several manufacturers are moving their production chain from China due to tensions with the United States. The Taiwanese company, also known for its flagship unit Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., plans to build the plant to make iPhone parts on a 300-acre site close to the...