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Cremé Brulée: The Best and, Yes, the Worst

When it comes to crème brulée, I had never not finished one. To me, they are all rated somewhere between a 7 and a 10, with most of them crowded in the 9-plus range.

The time we spent with Suni Lee

Team gymnastics final is tonight, Americans are favored, as usual these days. You’ll be seeing a lot of moves go by in a blur, so in February we went to St. Paul to visit Suni Lee so we could shoot high-speed footage of a new and risky move she’s been working on. It’s so risky she may not do it tonight in the team competition. She may hold off until the individual competition or the apparatus final so the only risk is to herself. I you get a chance, check it out.

A Little Something I’ve Been Working On

The Winter Olympics are far more dangerous than the summer version. Everything is competed on snow and ice — mostly ice. Rock-hard ice. We interviewed 36 athletes in the most dangerous sports to see if what they do scares them. Or are they just daredevils, fearless.

Call Me ZZZZZZé

These are things you will find lying around the NYT office in Barra. If you look at the possible combinations, it all makes sense. Peanut butter and Nutella? That works. Water to help swallow the Advil. Advil because you had too much Chivas. Nescafe because you had too much Chivas. Advil because you mixed the wine and the Chivas. If you can think of any other combinations, please feel free to share with the rest of us. Read more

Opening Ceremony Preparations

Practice for the opening ceremony has been going on this week and despite pleas from the organizers, those in attendance have been tweeting out all the secrets. So much so that a scene with Gisele Bündchen has been cut because of it.

The same appears true for the upcoming opening ceremony party at #2 sister’s house. Read more