It’s a familiar situation. The platters of lo mein and kung pao shrimp have been cleared. Your friend moans and says, “I shouldn’t have eaten that last dumpling.” Everyone laughs. The check arrives ...

“Your charm will be called upon to resolve a problem.” “Use soft words and hard arguments.” Those are the kind of messages we find at the end of meal at a Chinese restaurant, after we hear the ...

It’s always a treat to see what message lies inside your fortune cookie. While the standard ones sound like cheesy philosophical proverbs, sometimes you’ll score with an exciting or motivating fortune ...

Say this five times fast — cinnamon/synonym — and you’re guaranteed to end in a tangle of sounds and laughter. It’s what happened to Brynna Columb, a CIA Greystone–trained pastry chef and founder of ...