T’s Holiday Issue The writer hosted a dozen creative guests for jollof rice and Nigerian finger foods at her home in Lagos. Interview by Laura May Todd Photographs by Rachel Seidu Dec. 1, 2022 It’s tradition in Ibo culture to present your guests with an anyara, also known as a garden egg. It’s a small…
The attendees: Tomo Koizumi, 34, was joined by the publicist and consultant Ayako Maruyama, 38; the photographer Packychong Song, 36; the model Keishan, 25; and the drag queens Maxim, 31, Babie-No-Bitch, 47, Izumi Sexy, 39, and Takanenohana, 39. The food: Koizumi mostly follows a gluten-free diet and usually bakes bread with rice flour when guests…
The attendees: Freddie Ross Jr., a.k.a. Big Freedia, 44, was joined by his boyfriend, the visual artist Devon Hurst, 36; his manager, Reid Martin, 36; the dancer Tootie, 31, whom he calls “my daughter”; the singer Tarriona “Tank” Ball, 32; the producer Adam J. Pigott, a.k.a. BlaqNmilD, age withheld; the interior designer and artist Bradley…
Naima Green: I’m recovering from surgery, so when [Sable and I were] planning this dinner party, we really thought about the people we could be at ease with — folks I wouldn’t feel guilty sitting down around. These are homies we’ve known for eight to 10 years, but this was the first time the six…
Claire Foy: We formed a really strong bond [working on the movie “Women Talking,” out this month]. It felt like so little time had passed since the shoot [in summer 2021], and the film went down really well [at its New York Film Festival premiere in October], so it was a wonderful, cyclical thing to…
The attendees: The Valentino creative director, Pierpaolo Piccioli, 55, was joined by his wife, Simona Caggia, and their daughters, Benedetta and Stella, ages withheld; the food entrepreneur Brooklyn Peltz Beckham, 23, and his wife, the actor Nicola Peltz Beckham, 27; the actors Florence Pugh, 26, Ashley Park, 31, and Jenna Ortega, 20; the actor and…
Growing up in the ’90s with a broken family in Brighton, England, I would watch “Mrs. Doubtfire” (1993) religiously: All I wanted to do as a kid was dress up as an old woman. Twenty-eight years after the film came out, I paid homage to Robin Williams’s character by transforming into her to attend Balenciaga’s…
Of the many rituals that the past several years have upended, the dinner party seems, at first glance, to be the most minor. And yet there are few traditions that have been as profoundly affected. Not just by Covid-19, either — the idea of sitting down with other people, some of them strangers to you,…
Of all the holiday gifts I’ve been lucky enough to receive, it’s the tasty homemade ones that stay in my memory. There were the shelf-stable bottles of batched cocktails ready for a quick stir with ice, the cookie boxes with gingerbread galore, the pleasingly sticky brittles and toffees, and all the festive chocolate bark. Homemade…
The baguette’s creation is the source of many urban legends: Napoleon’s bakers supposedly created it as a lighter and more portable loaf for the troops; Parisian bakers were said to have made it a rippable consistency to stop knife fights between factions building the city’s subway system (who could rip the bread apart with their…