Five Weeknight Dishes: In Praise of Sauce

Hello and welcome to Five Weeknight Dishes. By now have we all read this amazing article on “snowplow parenting”? It’s about parents who go to sometimes-extreme lengths to remove obstacles from their kids’ lives. The part I can’t get over is about a girl who didn’t like sauce: “Her whole life, her parents had helped…

Mind: Can We Get Better at Forgetting?

Whatever its other properties, memory is a reliable troublemaker, especially when navigating its stockpile of embarrassments and moral stumbles. Ten minutes into an important job interview and here come screenshots from a past disaster: the spilled latte, the painful attempt at humor. Two dates into a warming relationship and up come flashbacks of an earlier,…

City Kitchen: A Ragoût to Remember

Is “ragoût” just a five-dollar word for stew, or is there a difference? To me, the French word sounds more elegant and painstaking. (To be clear, we’re not talking about ragù, an Italian pasta sauce.) And though a ragoût can take many forms, one made entirely of vegetables is something quite special. A good vegetable…

The 5 Bag Styles Every Fashion Girl Has

Mar 22, 2019 Only the world’s most committed minimalists would try arguing you just need one handbag in your wardrobe. From work to play to work-slash-play, modern life includes a glossary’s worth of activities that all require a slightly different size, shape, or functionality. And, as the city that never sleeps, Manhattan proved to be…

ELLE Editorial: For the Birds

A field guide to spring’s wildflowers on ladylike heels, embroidered bags, and blooming jewels. Mule, Tabitha Simmons, $795, net-a-porter.com. Mitchell Feinberg Handbag, Fendi, $10,200, fendi.com Mitchell Feinberg Pumps, Aquazzura ♥ Racil, $795, at Bergdorf Goodman, NYC. Mitchell Feinberg Necklace, Van Cleef & Arpels, 877-Van-Cleef. Mitchell Feinberg Handbag, Nancy Gonzalez, $4,850, Bergdorf Goodman. Mitchell Feinberg This…