Strawberry-Lemon Everything

We usually focus on savory recipes here, but I’m a former pastry cook, and I love dessert. On a weeknight, it could be as simple as some peeled citrus or cut melon, or a bowl of cold cherries. If people are coming over, it could be blueberries with very softly whipped cream sweetened with a…

How Indie Sleaze Went High Fashion

Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. “It feels like 2007 again,” Mark Hunter, the photographer known as The Cobrasnake, tells me. It’s the second time during our conversation that he’s uttered those exact words, but his enthusiasm is understandable. “Indie sleaze,” AKA the sweaty, Four Loko-assisted excess…

10 Spanish White Wines to Try Now

Cota 45 Ube Miraflores 2020, 12 percent, $31 I’m fascinated by the wines of Ramiro Ibañez of Cota 45, who is exploring the terroirs of Jerez through a series of unfortified wines made of palomino and other indigenous grapes. Jerez is of course best known for sherry, but Mr. Ibañez, the Blanco brothers and others…

Should You Subscribe to Your Next Vacation?

Promising luxury for less Many subscriptions cater to those looking for luxury. Consider Exclusive Resorts, which charges a one-time initiation fee of $175,000 for a 10-year membership, and then makes its 350-plus global portfolio of luxury vacation homes available for stays at $1,465 a night at places that it says often start at around $4,000.…