ELLE Editorial: Change Agent

Hair by Nai’vasha Johnson at the Wall Group; makeup by Grace Ahn at Julian Watson Agency Halima Aden, the first hijabi model to crack fashion’s big leagues, is at the forefront of a new focus on representation. “If I can encourage girls to stay true to themselves, then I’ve done a good job,” she says.…

The Magic of the Food Gift Swap

Opening a package of homemade food mailed by a stranger and eating the contents seems like the last thing anyone would want to do at a time when distrust and fear seem woven into our national psyche. But that’s just what Liz Larkin, 52, who runs a home-baking business in Pound Ridge, N.Y., intends to…

The Best Baking Cookbooks of 2018

A good cookbook is one in which a handful of recipes excite you. You dog-ear a few pages and slide the book onto your shelf. Maybe you’ll return to it later, and maybe you won’t. (You probably won’t.) A great cookbook, on the other hand, practically shimmers with possibilities. You begin to dog-ear the pages,…