Love Letter: Terms of Endearment

This week, I and fellow editors of Vows and Modern Love published “Terms of Endearment,” a special project on language and love. In it, we explore why some husbands choose to take their wives’ last names, and how the language of therapy has infiltrated dating. We look at how couples who speak different languages express…

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The Charm of Parm

I had the good fortune to eat eggplant Parmesan for dinner this week (not made by me!), and it got me thinking about the intense pleasures of the Parm family — not just eggplant Parmesan, but the various iterations made with chicken, pork, veal, mushrooms, cauliflower or even zucchini. (There’s also air-fryer chicken Parmesan, which…

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