Ever scroll through a friend’s wedding registry and feel uninspired by the cavalcade of appliances and trinkets? Consider going rogue and asking the couple if you can give them something major: a wedding cake. With their vertiginous tiers, sculpted sugar roses and fondant as smooth as clay, professional wedding cakes are engineered to look good…
We recently asked you, the readers of this newsletter, to bare your souls. In other words: We asked you to share the contents of your Notes apps with us, and the world. You did not disappoint. From a reader named Michelle: “There is a snail that can rip its own head from its body and…
A few days after their wedding on June 3, 2017, Lorenzo Vinti and Gregory DelliCarpini Jr. honeymooned in Thailand and Vietnam. Shortly after returning to Forest Hills, Queens, they decided to begin a new chapter in their careers and marriage. Mr. DelliCarpini, now 34, quit his job as a fashion editor at Billboard magazine and…
For Mr. Zuckerberg, who has absorbed a number of metaphorical body blows over the past several years — including an election meddling scandal, a ghost town metaverse and widespread layoffs — it is perhaps a revealing time to start fighting back. Mr. Zuckerberg is, of course, not the first tech titan to add significant amounts…
Wouldn’t it be nice to work the grill in a state of total relaxation, with a drink in hand, instead of anxiously poking at the food to make sure you’re doing it right? I think so, and so I’ve decided that this is the summer I’ll finally get better at grilling. Hopefully I’ll progress from…
The Federal Aviation Administration says that weather is the leading cause of flight delays. But last summer, most delays were man-made, according to data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. From June to August last year, 8 percent of all flights were delayed because of the airlines and about 5 percent of all flights were…
Grilling may be the world’s oldest, most universal cooking method, but that doesn’t guarantee automatic success. Just ask the person who routinely burns the burgers or whose fish always sticks to the grate. Suppose you’re a newcomer to the world of grilling or you just want a refresher. You don’t need to start with the…
On a recent Saturday, mellow ’90s R&B pumped from a tiny strip of a parking lot off Seventh Street in downtown Los Angeles. Cooks in sleeveless T-shirts danced as they worked, flipping mushroom skewers and longganisa patties on long charcoal grills. As I made my way through the crowd at Filled Market — maneuvering around aunties…
Good morning. In 1985, we published a recipe for the blueberry muffins that the pastry chef Gunther Moesinger served at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Boston. Marian Burros, who adapted the recipe, judged them among her favorite muffins in the city. A few years later, a reader wrote to Marian to say that, actually, the best…
Much has been written about “good enough” marriages, but what of “good enough” houses in “I guess we have to live somewhere” neighborhoods? This is the story of a family who began with low expectations and then fell in love. In 2016, Amanda and Alain de Beaufort were renting an apartment with a garden in…