A Change of Address

Welcome. The newsletter you’re reading began life as “At Home” in the spring of 2020, with the goal of helping Times readers lead full and cultured lives amid the coronavirus pandemic. In the spring of 2021, optimistic about the ways the vaccine was permitting us to leave our nests, we renamed the newsletter “At Home…

A Cure-All Scottish Chicken Soup

A rare upside to living in a pandemic has been that, thanks to all the mask-wearing and distancing, I’ve managed to avoid my usual onslaught of winter colds. This has radically altered my chicken soup habits. Usually, I’d brew a pot of Jewish penicillin at the first sign of a scratchy throat. Full of garlic,…