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By Heller McAlpin Correspondent What do avocado toast and kitten heels have in common? They both reflect trends: one in food, one in fashion. Two new appealing spring cookbooks, Nigella Lawson’s “Cook, Eat, Repeat” and Roxana Jullapat’s “Mother Grains,” reflect the times we’re in right now – as do Zoom calls and Etsy masks.   During the long months of sheltering in place, baking emerged as an absorbing distraction, filling homes with delicious comfort.   Los Angeles baker Jullapat’s “Mother Grains” provides plenty of reasons to continue doing just that. It’s...

Last month endangered whooping cranes laid eggs in Texas for the first time since the 1800s – a sign that recent reintroduction efforts have made slow but steady progress. Globally, whooping cranes now number over 800, with two of the largest populations in the United States living near Corpus Christi, Texas, and in southwest Louisiana. Whooping cranes prefer to live in big, shallow, freshwater marshes. They’re vulnerable to predation and take a relatively long time to reproduce. Years may go by before a pair successfully raise a chick. Why We Wrote This Finding the right rules of engage...

Amid a nationwide labor shortage that’s affecting his industry, Ian Davis bluntly says, “These are desperate times.” Just 4 miles away from his sushi restaurant on Tybee Island, Georgia, a crab shack is offering $3,000 signing bonuses. Some restaurant owners and economists think generous jobless benefits have chilled the hiring process. At the same time, persistent school closures and limited child care prevent many others from leaving home. And some workers have simply moved on to other industries. On Friday, the Labor Department reported a surprisingly low gain of just 266,000 jobs n...

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