A Sweet Summer Spread

Good morning. Here’s the report from where I sit: David Tanis is in The Times this week with a sweet summer dinner menu (above) that I think you could make this evening if you’re not too exhausted by [gestures] all this. It’s for a cherry tomato salad with green beans, chickpeas and feta followed by…

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Slow-Wheeling to the Sea

“People will look,” warned Minna Caroline Smith in Lapham’s Quarterly about her pioneering tricycling touring of the coastal North Shore in eastern Massachusetts. It wasn’t just that the self-powered adult tricycles were novel, but so, too, were the women riding them. It was 1885. The gender shock may now be gone but as the only…

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