April Showers Bring Sopa de Fideos

Just in time for longer evenings, bodega flowers and all the green vegetables: My colleagues Tanya Sichynsky and Krysten Chambrot have a wonderful new interactive guide to spring entertaining, a choose-your-own-adventure for dinner-party planning. Tanya’s shindig swings fancy: shrimp cocktail, a glorious roast chicken with tangerines and an all-stops-pulled baked Alaska. Krysten keeps things cozy…

Happy 420: What Should I Eat?

This weekend, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas across the country, temporarily renamed Alamo Dankhouse, are mixing Chex cereal, cheese balls and ranch seasoning with buttered popcorn. The snack is the first of three courses in a special menu that will be served during screenings of stoner classics like “Inherent Vice” and “The Beach Bum.” Ike’s Love &…

Distracted at the Tea Ceremony

My fiancée, Meredith, and I were sitting crossed-legged on cushions around a low wooden table with the tea ceremonialist and two other young women. Now and then, a gray cat jumped onto our laps. The tea ceremonialist took a black pot from an electric heater and poured the liquid into our ceramic mugs. We contemplated…

El teléfono que nos separó

Lo que nos separó estaba sobre una mesa en la sala del tribunal: un teléfono. Como dijo el juez para que constara en el acta, yo comparecía en mi divorcio “por teléfono”. Eso fue hace 17 años, antes de que existiera Zoom. Desde mi casa en Oakland, California, a 3218 kilómetros del tribunal del Medio…

The Crookie Delights Paris

All it took for the crookie to take shape was a baker looking for a diversion, his time-tested croissant recipe and a few cookies for inspiration. It took TikTok to make it go viral. Stéphane Louvard created the crookie almost a year and a half ago when he came up with the idea of putting…