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RTÉ News
21-05-2025
- Lifestyle
- RTÉ News
How to get more plants in your diet
It was an antipasti-style butter bean dish that turned personal chef Natalia Rudin into an internet sensation. Her post went viral in 2024, with a million views. "It had all the things that come in jars, like artichokes, sun-dried tomatoes, capers, olives, and some cavolo nero, in a tomato-based sauce," says the 30-year-old, who runs the account Nats Nourisments. Her food, mostly plant-based, focuses on ease and comfort, with plenty of nutrition packed in. Travelling to India at the age of 23, "I had a bit of a transformation, how I cared for myself, my body and the food I was eating. I became so much more aware of how ingredients, exercise and being outside had this huge effect on my mental health." And she became a private chef in 2018. But it isn't always easy to prioritise eating lots of plants in busy lives. "It's kind of being savvy. That's where I've used my experience as a personal chef. A lot of the time, I'd work with clients who don't really have any concept of time, they might suddenly be like, 'Can we have a three-course meal in an hour?' And you just scrap in the kitchen." Her debut cookbook, Cooking Fast And Slow, utilises this expertise of cooking under different time frames, "to aid people who think that they don't have the time to cook, to eat well, to feel well, to show them that they can". Here's her advice for packing in the plants if you're always in a rush. Have some fast recipes in your repertoire Rudin says most people understand that eating better helps us feel more well – "I think the problem lies in the nature of a busy schedule for people. When I had a nine-to-five job, I would come home and I'd be like, OK, I've only got really half an hour to play with, and then I'm knackered and I just want to get into bed." So you'll find 15-minute dishes like kimchi noodle stir fry and cavolo nero gnocchi in her book. While others, like the truffled white beans and wild mushrooms, or silky squash soup with crispy sage leaves, can be rustled up in less than half an hour. "Because it is so easy to cook with whole food ingredients fairly from scratch and still create something nourishing and delicious," she says. Stock up on key cupboard ingredients "Having a cupboard full of back-up ingredients is always really, really important." Her biggest hero ingredient is beans. "They can be there for years and they'll be absolutely fine. I always have butter beans or cannellini beans or chickpeas, and then also sun-dried tomatoes, because again, that's the kind of thing that you can sit at the top of the fridge. They're in oil, they last forever and they're delicious. "Same with artichokes, olives, capers – because you can always whip up something really flavoursome with that. You get your protein from your beans and the flavour punches from those." Pasta is key too, but don't stick to one variety. "I always say, have as many fancy shapes as you possibly can, because it will make the meal feel more elevated." And, "if you're struggling for time, you can buy the pre-made packets of lentils or quinoa. Those are always pretty handy to have on hand, because then you can throw them together with whatever fresh ingredients you have in the fridge". Have ready-made flavourings to hand Rudin recommends having jars of shawarma paste or harissa paste, too. "If you've got those lying around, you really are never far from a meal. [Like] harissa chickpeas, which is something we make all the time. "Something that we really love in our house is also miso paste. It's a fermented thing, it lasts forever. I like putting it in place of chicken stock or vegetable stock because it's got those really deep umami flavours. "I love having fermented things in the fridge, like sauerkraut, kimchi and pickles." Utilise your freezer Frozen fruit and vegetables are your best friend if you're short on time – especially shopping time. "I'd always have frozen peas in the freezer, and frozen spinach, because that's the kind of stuff you can throw into a pan to bulk up something. "Something that we often have at home is lemony pea pasta, because it's so quick, it's so easy. [The peas] cook so quickly, they pack a huge punch with protein, and live in your freezer forever," she notes. Use this simple flavour bomb tip on different veg "Lemon, chilli and garlic is a really good trifecta of ingredients to really jazz up anything," says Rudin. "If you have a side of broccoli with a bit of lemon, chilli and garlic, it feels elevated – it's delicious. It's a great way to get people to eat more greens and just add more things onto your plate. "I love dark leafy greens. If it's pasta, I'll throw a little salad on the side, whether it be some blanched cavolo nero with lemon and chilli and garlic." Get organised Meal prepping is "a lifesaver", she says, particular for work lunches. "I'm such a huge advocate." Set aside an hour or an hour and a half a week, to prepare for the week. For example, "Two grains, maybe a rice and a pasta, or lentils or chickpeas or quinoa, if you have two of those and a couple of fresh salad options, be that chopped cucumber and chopped tomato – those are really basic, fairly cheap ingredients – and then you can add whatever protein you want." Pack plants in at breakfast "It's difficult because we're all working and we're all under a time constraint in the morning, and sometimes people will value having a couple of extra minutes in bed rather than creating a breakfast," says Rudin. Save time by prepping breakfast the night before, she suggests, like chia pots packed with fruit, or carrot cake overnight oats – "You're getting a vegetable in a breakfast, which a lot of people don't". She adds: "I love a savoury breakfast personally," she says. One of her recipes is a black bean breakfast bowl with scrambled tofu, sweet potato and cashew cream. "I think it's just sometimes people may have exclusively toast or granola, and they don't realise that you can have so much fun with your breakfast."
Time Magazine
20-05-2025
- Business
- Time Magazine
William C. Rudin
For William C. Rudin, philanthropy is both a family tradition and a New York story. As co-executive chairman of the real estate development firm that his grandfather founded, Rudin is the third generation to lead the family business as well as contribute to the family's long history of donations to improve life in the Big Apple, focusing on areas including health, education, social services and the arts. Now, his two children, who succeeded him as CEO in 2023, and other fourth-generation Rudins are stepping up. 'My dad and grandfather always talked about the philosophy of giving back to New York City, and now it's being paid forward in the next generation,' Rudin says. Various members of the Rudin family manage individual foundations as well as donor-advised funds, where they direct their giving to hundreds of large and small New York City nonprofits. Bill Rudin also sits on several boards, including the Association for a Better New York (co-founded by his father), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Battery Conservancy, a 25-acre public park at the southern tip of Manhattan. This fall, one of the family's longest giving traditions will enter its forty-ninth year: the New York City Marathon. 'We are the longest continuing sponsor of the marathon,' says Rudin. 'People come from all over the world, and it really puts a shine on New York City.'
New York Post
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Arthur, the NYC carriage horse who famously crashed into two cars, has died after happy retirement
All horses go to heaven. A New York City carriage horse that made headlines and spurred debate after bolting and crashing into two cars, has met a sad but peaceful end after an idyllic retirement on a sprawling farm in the Hamptons. In February 2018, a large gray draft horse named Arthur was spooked by a man yelling and opening an umbrella in Central Park. He ran off, carrying three Texas tourists in his carriage, and crashed into two parked cars. Advertisement 9 In February 2018, The Post reported on a carriage horse named Arthur that was spooked in Central Park, ran off and crashed into two cars. 9 Arthur's carriage was crumpled in the incident, and his three passengers had minor injuries. Gregory P. Mango The incident left the passengers with minor injuries, the carriage crumpled and the cars with significant damage. Arthur, meanwhile, became something of a poster pony for animal activists and was whisked away to a horse sanctuary in Massachusetts. Advertisement At the time, it was reported that a number of organizations and private citizens, including comedian Whitney Cummings, had expressed interest in adopting Arthur, but then the horse quietly trotted away from the spotlight. The Post can now exclusively report that Arthur was eventually adopted by Sabrina Rudin, a West Village restaurateur who took an interest in him after reading about his plight in this paper. 'I had always wanted to rescue a carriage horse … and something about him struck me,' said Rudin, 39, a native New Yorker who owns Spring Cafe Aspen in Greenwich Village and Aspen, Colo. She said the adoption process was 'complicated' because of the media attention around Arthur and political debate over carriage horses, but she persisted. In May 2018, his owners released him to Rudin. Advertisement 9 Arthur (left) was initially sent to a horse sanctuary in Massachusetts. A number of people and organizations expressed interest in adopting him. Facebook 'I was very clear that I just wanted to very privately bring him home … and give him a different kind of life,' said Rudin. Finding a stable large enough for Arthur, a towering Percheron gelding, proved challenging. But Rudin found a home for him at Swan Creek Farms in Bridgehampton. The barn's owners, Jagger and Mandy Topping, were able to combine two stalls to make a large enough home for Arthur. 9 Sabrina Rudin, a West Village restaurateur, was touched by Arthur's story and determined to adopt him. Courtesy of Sabrina Rudina Advertisement 'They helped me give him a really beautiful life,' said Rudin, who grew up riding horses. 'The first few times he saw grass, he was so excited, he was really happy, you could tell that he was really happy to be free.' In his first few months at Swan Creek, Arthur, a shy, gentle giant, struggled to make friends with any of the horses. Then, Mandy called Rudin one day with some surprising news: Arthur had become chummy with the barn's miniature donkey, Jingles. Despite their noticeable height difference, the two were inseparable. 9 At Swan Creek Farms in Bridgehampton, Arthur found an unlikely friend in a mini donkey named Jingles. Courtesy of Sabrina Rudina 'I was just cracking up laughing [when she told me],' Rudin recalled. The two pals enjoyed years of frolicking in grassy pastures together, spending most of their days outside. Arthur never pulled a carriage again, nor was he ever ridden. Rudin and her three young sons, ages 3 to 9, visited him often, showering him with carrots, apples and oat horse cookies. 'He was amazing with the boys,' she said. 'And it was a way to sort of teach them in a really nice, gentle way about something we can do for animals,' Advertisement 9 Rudin said Arthur was 'amazing'with her three young sons. Courtesy of Sabrina Rudina A few weeks ago, it was discovered that Arthur, who was estimated to be about 18 years old, had lymphoma and had a large mass in his rectum. He deteriorated rapidly at the Cornell Ruffian equine hospital in Elmont, NY, and couldn't go back to Swan Creek to see his friend a final time. So, last Sunday, the Toppings transported Jingles to the hospital to say goodbye. Advertisement 9 After it was discovered that Arthur had lymphoma, Rudin made the difficult decision to put him down. But first, Jingles had to say goodbye to his friend. Courtesy of Sabrina Rudina 'They had this very emotional reunion … Arthur could hear him coming down the hall, and Jingles was hee-hawing for him,' Rudin said. 'They spent the whole last morning together.' On Monday, Rudin cradled Arthur's head, whispered her love to him and cried as he went to sleep a final time. She asked the dying horse to send her a sign that he'd made it to the other side OK. The next day, one of Mandy's other clients randomly sent her an old photo of her daughter standing with a carriage horse that looked like Arthur. The year was 2018. Advertisement 9 Rudin bid an emotional goodbye to Arthur on Monday. 9 'It feels like yesterday that I saw the article about him,'she said. Rudin doesn't believe it was actually a photo of Arthur, but she does think it was him sending her a sign that he was ok. Advertisement 'I do believe that wherever he is, that was a wink from him that he was safe,' she said. To be sharing his story with The Post, she said, is a 'full circle moment.' 'It feels like yesterday that I saw the article about him.'
Yahoo
10-04-2025
- Yahoo
Wrongly convicted man awarded $28M after civil trial in Rochester
A Buffalo man who spent 21 years in prison before his murder conviction was overturned was awarded $28 million by a federal jury in Rochester Tuesday. The civil suit of John Walker Jr., wrongly convicted of murder, was tried in federal court in Rochester, which is part of the same federal court district as is Buffalo. The verdict and award came after a three-week trial against Erie County. Walker, then 16, was one of five teenagers accused in the 1976 murder of 62-year-old William Crawford on Buffalo's East Side. The case has been likened to the notorious "Central Park Five" case, in which five New York City teenagers were wrongly accused and convicted of the brutal assault of a jogger in Central Park. The five were exonerated when the real criminal admitted to the assault and DNA evidence proved his guilt. In the Buffalo case, one teenager initially testified against the others. Joel Rudin, an attorney for Walker, said the teen was pressured into false testimony and promised immunity. That individual testified in the federal civil trial that he had been forced to lie. "They took very vulnerable teenagers back at a time of tremendous racial tension and coerced one of them into accusing his friends in order to save himself," Rudin said. The teens were Black and the victim white. "He talked about how he's had to live with this shame for 47 years," Rudin said. Rudin represented Walker along with attorneys Ross Firsenbaum, Spencer Durland and others from Buffalo and New York City law firms. They also represent another of the men convicted of the murder, Darry Boyd, who died in late February. Boyd's civil trial is scheduled to go ahead with a videotaped deposition, Rudin said. The City of Buffalo earlier settled with Boyd and Walker for a total of $8.6 million. Two others of the Buffalo Five have also died. One was acquitted at trial. There was no physical evidence to tie the teens to the murder and they had alibis that were challenged by police. Court records show that there were other serious suspects in the murder but they were largely ignored after the teen's statement linking his friends to the homicide. Also, evidence was withheld from the defense that could have helped prove the innocence of the teens. The convictions were overturned in 2021. 'What do you give somebody that you have taken everything away from?" Walker told the Buffalo News in 2021. "What can they do to make the remainder of my life right? That's the step I am walking toward right now." U.S. District Judge Meredith Vacca, who was appointed to the federal bench last year, presided over the trial and is also scheduled to preside over Boyd's posthumous civil trial. — Gary Craig is a veteran courts and criminal justice reporter with the Democrat and Chronicle. This article originally appeared on Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: John Walker Jr. awarded $28M after wrongful conviction in NY
New York Times
28-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Scott Rudin, Producer Exiled for Bad Behavior, Plans Return to Broadway
Scott Rudin, the powerful producer who was exiled from Broadway and Hollywood four years ago after allegations of bullying led to widespread denunciations and even protesters in the streets, has been quietly preparing to return to show business. After what he called 'a decent amount of therapy,' apologies to many people and a period of reading and reflection holed up on Long Island, Rudin said that he had decided he wanted to make theater again. He is at peace, he said, with the reality that not everyone is likely to welcome him back. He called his previous behavior, particularly toward subordinates, 'bone-headed' and 'narcissistic.' He acknowledged that he had long yelled at his assistants ('Yes, of course') and that he had on occasion thrown things at people ('Very, very rarely'). 'I was just too rough on people,' he said. But Rudin — who produced films including 'No Country for Old Men' and 'The Social Network' and Broadway shows including 'The Book of Mormon' and 'To Kill a Mockingbird' — said he was confident that from now on he would be able to maintain his exacting standards without terrorizing others. 'I have a lot more self-control than I had four years ago,' he said. 'I learned I don't matter that much, and I think that's very healthy.' Also, he added, 'I don't want to let anybody down. Not just myself. My husband, my family and collaborators.' Rudin, 66, agreed to discuss his ambitious plans in response to requests to talk about indications that he was planning to return to producing. The result was his first detailed interview about his downfall, his time away from Broadway and his hopes to mount a comeback. His return is likely to be controversial, given that reports of the ways in which he berated and mistreated assistants helped lead to a reconsideration of workplace culture in theater. Rudin said that he planned to stage four plays in New York next season — three of them on Broadway — and that he had found writers, actors, creative teams, investors and theater owners willing to work with him to make that possible. 'It wasn't that I felt passionately like anybody had missed me, or that I had missed it,' he said. 'But I felt like I wasn't done, and that if I still had more work I was able to make, that I should make it — that I had an obligation to something that I really care about, which is the theater.' The Broadway League, the trade association of producers and theater owners, declined to comment on his planned return, as did several people who reported having bad experiences with Rudin. Al Vincent Jr., the executive director of Actors' Equity Association, the union representing actors and stage managers, noted that union contracts 'hold employers responsible for ensuring a workplace free of bullying, discrimination and harassment.' 'Since Scott Rudin last worked with Equity members, in reaction to his previous behaviors, Equity has taken steps to strengthen those contractual protections,' Vincent said. He added that the union had also taken steps to limit the use of nondisclosure agreements 'so they can't shield abusive employers.' Rudin had been a prolific producer of artistically ambitious, and often successful, work, but was dogged for decades by complaints about yelling at, firing and occasionally hurling things at subordinates. Then, in 2021, The Hollywood Reporter ran an exposé about his abusive behavior toward assistants, which prompted widespread outrage and led him to step back from producing. Protesters marched on Broadway, chanting 'Scott Rudin has got to go.' The New York Times then revealed new details about how he wielded power with actors, playwrights, agents and business associates: In addition to excoriating staffers he also deployed anger, threats and occasional lawsuits against perceived foes. Rudin announced that he was resigning from the Broadway League. Rudin — an EGOT who has won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and 18 Tony Awards — became a pariah. 'What happened in '21 was in some basic way inevitable,' he said. 'Very little was said that hadn't been said many times. So I always, frankly, felt that once the culture started to change, one day it was going to change for me.' He declined to enumerate his misdeeds, saying, 'I'm not attempting to create a menu of miscreant behavior.' He added: 'A lot of what was said was true. Some of what was said wasn't true. But I didn't feel there was any point in responding to all of it because what's the point of parsing bad behavior? It was bad behavior. I own it.' And why did he behave poorly toward others? 'I don't think I was ever really in the dark about why I was rough on people,' he said. 'I knew why I was rough on people. For a long time, it seemed like a price I could live with. I wasn't really thinking about what price other people could live with, because producing at the level of volume that I was requires a level of narcissism. If you don't inherently believe you're doing better than other people, why are you doing it? There are better ways to make a living.' He said that he had made the 'profound mistake' of believing that 'anything and anybody who got in the way of what I was trying to do could cause it to fail.' 'But it isn't true,' he said. 'And being away from it for a while made me feel differently about it.' Rudin's attempted comeback arrives at a time when the nation appears much less unforgiving of men accused of bad behavior or misconduct than it did just a few years ago. President Trump was elected to a second term after being convicted of falsifying business records; Andrew M. Cuomo is a front-runner in the New York mayor's race three years after he resigned as governor; and the comedian Louis C.K. is selling out arenas after acknowledging sexual misconduct. 'I'm going to try to come back and make some more good work, and people will feel how they feel,' Rudin said. 'And if some people are really angry about it, they'll have the right to be angry about it.' He has not been entirely off the grid since his career imploded. He said he had continued to see shows and offer advice to people in the industry who sought his help. And he was particularly involved in helping Barry Diller, a longtime friend, plan the ambitious artistic programming at Little Island, the small park Diller built in the Hudson River. Rudin found working on something where he was not in charge liberating. He also spent time reshuffling his life. He sold his Upper West Side co-op, and then sold the place he had intended to next occupy, a West Village townhouse he had purchased from Graydon Carter, the editor. He moved to his weekend home in East Hampton, started building a house in Connecticut and then decided that project was not how he wanted to spend his energy. Now he has sold the East Hampton house and is preparing to move to the North Fork of Long Island. He also sold a lot of art, deciding there was no point just keeping it in storage. Working on Little Island rekindled his interest in producing. 'A lot of producing is thinking 'What if?'' he said. 'And I hadn't thought 'What if?' in a really long time.' He decided to see if he could fill a void in New York's postpandemic theater scene, which has seen some splashy musicals and some star-powered plays but, from Rudin's point of view, less adventurous programing than it should have. 'I think the economics of Broadway have gotten tougher and tougher, and that some producers are throwing movie stars at that model as a way of cauterizing the bleeding,' he said. 'But I don't believe it's a sustainable model because overall, what has historically worked has been really good shows with really great people in them, whether they were movie stars or not. And I think using stars as a replacement for quality has a sell-by date printed all over it.' He said he worried that there was 'a paucity of work that's truly, truly achieved' and too much work that feels 'first drafty.' Rudin said he had agreed to talk for this article because he felt it was a necessary step if he was ever to move forward. 'I felt that I owed it to people to talk about coming back if I was going to,' he said. 'I own what I did,' he added. 'I feel proud of the work overall, and badly about the cost of it to some people who worked on it.' Asked about apologies, Rudin said: 'I apologized to the people I felt I needed to apologize to. In many cases they were people I had apologized to previously, some of them numerous times. Not everybody was receptive to it.' He said he had more than a dozen shows in various stages of development, including some well-known musicals, but he is starting with plays and several of the forthcoming productions will star Laurie Metcalf and be directed by Joe Mantello. (Neither of them responded to requests for comment through a representative.) This fall he plans the first Broadway production of 'Little Bear Ridge Road,' a play by Samuel D. Hunter that was staged last year in Chicago by Steppenwolf Theater Company. The New York production, like the one in Chicago, will star Metcalf and will be directed by Mantello. Next spring Rudin plans to stage 'Montauk,' a new play by David Hare, also starring Metcalf and directed by Mantello. The following season he says he hopes to revive 'Death of a Salesman' in a production with Metcalf and Nathan Lane, again directed by Mantello. 'I think Laurie is the greatest actress in America,' Rudin said. 'I do. I also believe in Laurie as a partner. Laurie is an amazing person to be in a room with, because the way she takes ownership of a text is remarkable to see, but it ignites a quality of work around her.' He has other plans, too. This fall he plans to stage a Broadway production of 'Cottonfield,' a new play by Bruce Norris, which Rudin said would be directed by Robert O'Hara. The collaboration is noteworthy because Rudin and Norris had a publicized falling-out in 2012; Rudin has been known to torpedo and then rebuild relationships over the course of his stormy career. He allowed that 'hotheaded people, in which I would number myself, have a tendency, especially when confronted with other hotheaded people, to blow something up beyond what it's worth.' And next winter, Rudin plans to stage an Off Broadway production of a new play by Wallace Shawn called 'What We Did Before Our Moth Days,' which will be directed by André Gregory, who was Shawn's co-star in 'My Dinner With André.' The plays Rudin plans to produce, at least initially, are challenging and ambitious, and it is not clear that others were ready to stage them. 'When I think about the work that I did that was good, it was almost always work that nobody else wanted to do,' Rudin said. 'In almost every movie that I did that worked, I was always the only person who wanted to do it. So I kind of feel like in this round of making work, if somebody else wants to do something, they should. If I'm the only person who wants to do it, and I feel strongly about it, it should be me.' And will he return to movies too? 'I want to do this first,' he said. 'I want to see what it feels like. I want, frankly, to make sure I'm still good at it, and I want to make sure that I'm not going to be killed by a sniper's bullet on 45th Street.' 'I made 130 movies and probably nearly a hundred shows, so it's not like I didn't get a shot to do what I wanted to do — I had more shots than anybody,' he added. 'In a way, I think one of the good things that happened with me being out for a few years is that it created room for other people, which I think is a great thing and a really healthy thing. But at the same time there's a corner of it that I enjoyed occupying, which is making good work with good friends and people that I trusted and wanted to be in a room with. So I'm going to do that.'
