A Proposal Seven Years in the Making

Mitchell Jay Karp’s marriage proposal to Barry Katz was not a simple affair. There were opera singers, a silver rose and a tremendous amount of planning. “Here’s the most amazing thing,” Mr. Karp said. “I have the biggest mouth of anyone I know and told absolutely no one about this except my therapist. There are…

After a Nudge from Aziz Ansari, a First Date

“He was a trooper,” Ms. Davis said. “The fact that he was willing to do that just meant everything.” That December, she moved in with him, into his studio apartment in San Francisco’s Marina District. “We’d talked probably earlier than most would about living together,” he said, adding that Ms. Davis had jokingly resisted at…

Good Things to Make With Summer Corn

I wasn’t sure exactly what to cook when friends came over for dinner the other night, but I knew it would involve corn from the farmers’ market, tucked in soft, pale husks, piled on the kitchen counter. As our dogs zoomed around, I turned a ball of dough into parathas stuffed with greens and mashed…