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Savor the final days of summer with strawberry cheesecake

Family Features Stun your family and guests with a delicious dessert that’s as easy to make as it is to eat. This no-bake French-Style Cheesecake with Strawberries from Cookin’ Savvy is a perfect summer treat for sharing with your nearest and dearest, and you can swap out strawberries for ...

Celebrate Labor Day with this corn and potato salad

We are almost face-to-face with Labor Day, but there’s still a sliver of summer left. And we should not waste these last days telling each other how quickly the season has flown by. Let’s spend the rest of summer and early fall eating all of the ripe, rainbow-hued produce that is spilling over at the farmer’s markets and (if we’re lucky) in our gardens. Tomatoes, eggplants, zucchini, herbs, string beans and — to some folks’ minds — the pick of the season: fresh sweet corn. Do you have an avid corn lover in your world? The kind of person who will eat three ears of corn ...

Give backyard barbecues a boost with these easy crowd-pleasers

Family Features Classic burgers and hot dogs might get the spotlight during backyard barbecues, but tasty sides and twists on tradition are what take your cookout to the next level. Since no meal is complete without Bush’s Baked Beans, chef James Briscione turns to these hearty Hamburger ...

Crème fraîche creates a creamy broth in a recipe for briny-sweet steamed clams

A big bowl of steamed clams and juicy-crisp corn is summer eating at its finest. The combination is fresh, sweet and briny, almost like a chowder made for eating with your fingers. In this recipe from our cookbook “ Milk Street 365: The All-Purpose Cookbook for Every Day of the Year,” we finish the clams and corn with a small measure of crème fraîche (or whole-milk yogurt); the briny-sweet liquid released by the clams becomes a subtly creamy broth that’s as delicious as the clams themselves. Fennel perfumes the broth with anise-like notes. Scrub the clams well before cooking ...

Horoscope

ARIES (March 21-April 19). You’ll encounter something in wonky form. To make this appealing or useful, work must go in, like new thought, adjustment or negotiation. Your job isn’t to accept it as is, but get in there and turn it into what works for you. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You hold your own standards and stay curious about people who live differently. Being firm in yourself but open with others is a balance that allows for less conflict and better relationships. It’s emotional maturity in action. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You’ve an aim today, and you feel good about ...

Today in History

Today is Wednesday, Aug. 27, the 239th day of 2025. There are 126 days left in the year. Today in history: On Aug. 27, 1883, the island volcano Krakatoa erupted with a series of cataclysmic explosions. The explosions (which could be heard 3,000 miles away) and resulting tsunamis in Indonesia’s Sunda Strait claimed some 36,000 lives in Java and Sumatra. Also on this date: In 1894, Congress passed the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which contained a provision for a graduated income tax that was later struck down by the Supreme Court. In 1964, the film “Mary Poppins” had its ...