Weddings for Rent

The Cake Yes, it’s possible to rent your cake. Kimberly Aya, of Bloomsburg, Penn., and Punta Gorda, Fla., never planned to open a cake rental business, but shortly after setting up her cake booth at a Michigan bridal show, she received a phone call letting her know the bakery space she was planning on renting…

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It’s Time to Get Jamming

Hello again … and goodbye! We’ve reached September, which means that Sam Sifton is back on the grid and will be back in your inbox on Friday. In the meantime, have you ever made jam? I simmered up my first batch in college after reading a recipe for plum jam in Laurie Colwin’s brilliant “More…

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House Hunting in Latvia: A Sprawling Forest Compound for $513,000

Irina Alazova, the CEO of Mercury Group Limited, a Latvian real estate company, said that starting in 2015, it became “almost impossible to get mortgages,” after the government tightened lending restrictions. Around the same time, the country’s residential permit program, which allowed foreign buyers to apply for permanent residence, increased its minimum required purchase, causing…

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