The pandemic has forced many European businesses to improvise. This Belgian gin distillery now has a popular line in hand sanitizer.
Tag: Quarantine (Life and Culture)
Coronavirus Turns a Spanish Sea Delicacy Back Into Daily Fare
With high-end restaurants closed, the price of prawns has tumbled, allowing fishmongers to pick up the shellfish at a discount and offer them to a much broader clientele.
In a German Restaurant, the Sommelier Lifts His Mask to Smell the Wine
Pauly Saal, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Berlin, was one of the first restaurants in Europe to restart operations last week. How did its chefs, waiters — and diners — cope on its opening night?
The Return to School
What Australian children have to say about going back to class
Why the Call to Prayer Made Me Cry This Ramadan
Abdi Latif Dahir, a New York Times reporter based in Nairobi, reflects on how the pandemic’s “gift of loneliness” reshaped the holy month.
In Istanbul Under Lockdown, Baklava Makers Are Essential Workers
A strict weekend curfew quiets the city’s joyous commotion, but offers up new moments of breathtaking beauty, both spiritual and natural. And essential sweets are still delivered.
Locals Tell Us What Top Tourist Spots Feel Like Now
Travel restrictions have turned 11 overtouristed destinations into quiet, almost unrecognizable places, even for those who live there. It’s a bittersweet experience for the people we talked to.
Stuck at Home, Men in Japan Learn to Help. Will It Last?
The coronavirus pandemic is exposing like never before the severe disparities in how Japanese couples divide household work.
Two Projects Are Filming Again. Here’s How They’re Doing It.
In Iceland, a Netflix series relied on testing and color-coded armbands. In Australia, the entire cast and crew of a Stephen King adaptation quarantined together.
‘A Lot of Bad News Out There’: Parenting in a Pandemic
A mother balances coverage of tsunamis, plane crashes, bombings and other tragedies with life at home during a coronavirus lockdown.