Rachel somerstein articles
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Rachel Roddy’s recipe for chicken with orange, lemon, marmalade and olives
A little sweet, a little sour, rather sticky – and irresistible!Two oranges have been sitting in the fruit bowl since 24 January. I can be precise thanks to the boastful photographs of marmalade I took on 25 January, having bought the fruit the day before. Only half the oranges became marmalade (which filled 10 jars and made every surface in the kitchen sticky), so to start with a dozen or so sat in the bowl. They are not bitter oranges, nor are they sweet, which is why they have been consumed...
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Mary Jane review – Rachel McAdams makes a magnetic Broadway debut
Samuel J Friedman Theatre, New YorkThe Oscar nominee is a captivating emotional anchor in this drama about a mother coping with her child’s health problemsAlex, the two-year-old child at the center of Amy Herzog’s excellent play Mary Jane, is a constant presence on stage, despite never showing his face nor saying a word. Alex can’t, actually, vocalize anything – he was born with a paralyzed vocal cord, his endearingly peppy mother explains, along with other health conditions such as cerebral...
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‘I Cannot Digest That Passover Is Next Week.’ Counting the Days With Rachel Goldberg-Polin
For the families pressing relentlessly for the release of their loved ones taken hostage on Oct. 7, moving forward is a contradiction.