Sunday Soup: How Ice Cream Is Made, Vacation Plans Change, Move Aside Chicken Breasts
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As we get ready for the Memorial Day holiday, the unofficial start to summer, we’re recommending a new book from Anthony Horowitz you may want to dive into, and explaining how THE summer treat, ice cream, is made.
We’re also sharing how summer vacations are likely to be different this time around, why the chicken breast is no longer the king cut, and why sound is the next frontier in auto-land. All that, and a few other surprises as well, in this latest edition of the Sunday Soup!
If you have a recommendation to share, we’d love to hear about it in the Comments section below.
Now enjoy this latest offering of Sunday Soup.
Articles 📰
Here Comes the Summer of the Scaled-Back Vacation
"Summer vacation is getting a makeover. Americans are planning to take time off this summer, but their concerns about the economy are prompting them to swap air travel and extravagant holidays for road trips and shorter vacations."
The Latest Luxury Hotel Trend Is All About Embracing the Outdoors
“'There’s been a surge in hiking tourism, particularly in remote areas,' says Sebastian Correa, a vice president at Explora. The company, which has hotels in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru, has seen so much interest that it has expanded for the first time outside of South America: this summer, Explora will launch guided hikes across southern Iceland."
The End of Chicken-Breast Dominance
"Few things in life are both cheaper and better, but for a long time, this was true of the chicken thigh. Its superiority was passed like a shibboleth among food connoisseurs: Thighs are juicier, tastier, are almost half the price—preferable in just about every way to the boneless, skinless, flavorless breasts that reign supreme in America. Well, the secret’s out. On a recent trip to the grocery store, I picked up a pack of boneless thighs that cost, pound for pound, some 50 cents more than boneless breasts."
The Final Frontier of Luxury in Autos Is Sound
"Electrification and autonomous driving lead the cutting edge of automobile innovation, but carmakers are also competing to optimize cabin sound by doing far more than just throwing extra speakers in the back. This is the era of the car as sound studio."
Working Too Much Can Change Your Brain
"Working long hours comes with a slew of health issues, from too much stress to disturbed sleep, heart conditions, and mental-health disorders like anxiety and depression. It may even cause changes in the brain, according to a new report published in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Researchers from Korea found that people who regularly work long hours had significant brain differences compared to people who worked less."
What if Rolls-Royce Collaborated With Mini Again?
"Over its many years of production, the Cooper has seen many special editions and unique spin-offs, but one limited edition in particular has us thinking about the possibility of expanding the Cooper’s special edition scope beyond creative in-house ideas: the 2012 Mini Inspired by Goodwood."
How AI Has Already Changed My Job
"Eight American workers talked to Bloomberg Businessweek about how their working lives are changing as a result of the technology. There’s a nurse who’s had AI foisted on her in ways she worries endangers patients; an Uber driver sharing the streets with Waymos that don’t need drivers at all; and a teacher learning how AI can cut hours out of his exhausting workweeks. So how’s the AI revolution going? The answer is that it depends a lot on who you ask."
He Spent $12,495 to Be Gene Simmons’s Roadie (and Got More Than Expected)
"A father-son pair ponied up for the V.I.P. experience last week and got a glimpse behind the scenes of a rock ’n’ roll show, and into a notorious star’s heart."
What We’re Streaming 📺📲
How We Experience Time
"Why does one hour drag by, but a year can pass in a flash? And how does our relationship with time influence our behavior? This hour, TED speakers share ideas on making the most of the time we have."
The Reading List 📖📚
Marble Hall Murders: A Novel (Susan Ryeland Series, 3) by Anthony Horowitz
Editor Susan Ryeland has left her Greek island, her hotel and her Greek boyfriend, Andreas, in search of a new life back in England.
Freelancing for a London publisher, she's given the last job she wants: working on an Atticus Pünd continuation novel called Pünd’s Last Case. Worse still, she knows the new writer. Eliot Crace is the troubled grandson of legendary children’s author Miriam Crace who died twenty years ago. Eliot is convinced she was murdered—by poison.
To her surprise, Susan enjoys reading the manuscript which is set in the South of France and revolves around the mysterious death of Lady Margaret Chalfont, days before she was about to change her will. But when it is revealed that Lady Margaret was also poisoned, alarm bells begin to ring.
The more Susan reads, the clearer it becomes that Eliot has deliberately concealed clues about his grandmother’s death inside the book.
Desperately, Susan tries to prevent Eliot from putting himself in harm’s way—but his behaviour is becoming increasingly erratic. Another murder follows . . . and suddenly Susan finds herself to be the number one suspect.
