After Losing Her Limbs, Our Cooking Columnist Returns to the Kitchen
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08/02/26
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For decades, the kitchen was the centerpiece of Yewande Komolafe’s life. She spent long hours there, first as a restaurant cook and later as a recipe developer. But though she loved the often-intense culinary world, she had to navigate it with certain limitations: She was born with sickle cell disease, an inherited blood disorder, which required her to carefully manage her working life. She did so successfully, becoming a celebrated cookbook author and food writer for The Times.
A medical crisis in December 2023 changed all of that. Komolafe ended up in a coma for six weeks, and after emerging learned that both her legs and her fingers would need to be amputated. In this episode of “The Sunday Daily,” Komolafe tells Rachel Abrams about what happened and how, after everything, she made her way back into the kitchen.
On Today’s Episode:
Yewande Komolafe is a cooking columnist for The New York Times.
Background Reading:
How Losing My Limbs Turned Me Into a Different Kind of Cook
The Chef Imagining a More Accessible World, One Meal at a Time
Photo credit: Lanna Apisukh.
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Mike Isaac, who covers technology for The New York Times, explains why the release of two Chinese models pushed that debate to a boiling point this week, and how it could end up reshaping the future of A.I.
Guest: Mike Isaac, a New York Times reporter based in the San Francisco Bay Area, covering tech companies and Silicon Valley.
Background reading:
- Silicon Valley splits over closing the borders to Chinese A.I.
- What is open-weights A.I.?
Photo: Hector Retamal/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
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Megan Twohey, who has been covering the story, explains just how important those alliances became and why they are now starting to unravel.
Guest: Megan Twohey, an investigative reporter for The New York Times.
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- How a manosphere star accused of rape and trafficking was freed last year.
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- The brothers, in federal custody, are seeing their powerful backers go quiet.
Photo: Eduard Vinatoru/Inquam Photos, via Reuters
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