These Veggies Are Sneaky

Hello, Five Weeknight Dishers! It’s Krysten, this newsletter’s editor, stepping out from behind the curtain while Emily is out. I’ve walked this planet for a full 37 years, but I still struggle to eat my vegetables. Of course I know they’re good for me, but the siren call of bread and cheese and pasta with…

Toward a New Uniform, at Prada

MILAN — The Prada show invitation did not arrive alone. It came with a delicate calla lily, rolled out of starched white cotton and ready to be pinned to a lapel. Also a door stopper of a 550-page monograph titled “Recycling Beauty” and chronicling the current exhibition at the Fondazione Prada: an examination of the…

Letting Go of Her Ballet Dream

One recent Saturday morning at Steps on Broadway, a rehearsal studio on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, ballet dancers pirouetted to recordings of classical piano music while an instructor guided them. Some of the dancers were retired pros practicing at the barre. Others were weekend warriors indulging “Swan Lake” fantasies while getting in some…