In 2018, Jocelyn Carol Ueng would host a five-course themed meal in her loft in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, twice a month for six paying guests at a time. In the hopes of generating publicity for her culinary project, she reached out to an Asian American literary magazine. Although her pitch to write a story about…
On their second date, a neighborhood stroll toward Red Hook, Mr. Miner took Mr. Bittar’s hand. “I know it sounds crazy, but I felt like, ‘Wow, that really fit,’” Mr. Bittar said. A relationship ensued, and in February 2019, it came time for Mr. Miner to meet Mr. Bittar’s twins. He arrived with a gift:…
[Click here to binge read this week’s featured couples.] After he returned, and days after he was showing off his Napa knowledge back in Miami at the 2017 committee meeting, he and Ms. Coleman sat down for a first glass of wine together at Happy Wine in the Grove, a local wine bar. He had…
In 2016, when she moved back home after graduation, he stayed there too until he found a room in a house nearby a couple of months later. “My family loved, loved him,” she said. By the end of 2017 he bought a fixer-upper house, doing most of the renovations himself. She moved in that spring.…
The first five years of their relationship were mostly spent long distance. He went away for college at Northwestern University, where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. She graduated from high school a year after he did and went to Yale, where she received a bachelor’s in computer science. They moved in…