Food & Home
The Gear, Tricks, and Beans for Making Excellent Coffee
We launched a custom coffee and we’re excited for you to meet these beans. Our food director’s guide to making your best cup at home covers the low-tech pour-over, the simple French press, a couple more-automated and luxe routes, and (of course) a few snack recipes.
Wear Your Very Best Socks to Carly Cushnie’s Dinner Parties
Famously chic fashion designer Carly Cushnie dresses her home as elegantly as she does her customers. The thirty-seven-year-old mom of two’s Brooklyn brownstone is the designated headquarters for boozy friend dinners and intimate backyard Sunday brunches, and her party-throwing tips are next-level, from what to cook and how to set the table to making sure no one’s caught wearing socks with holes in them.
A Luxury Bedding Guru on How to Make the Best of Your Bed
Love your bed and every aspect of your life—sleep, mood, skin, sex, navigating work and relationships—vastly improves. “One of the best parts of the day is the time I have to myself before going to sleep,” says Missy Tannen, cofounder and chief designer of the luxury Fair Trade–certified bedding company Boll & Branch. “I wash my face, maybe watch some television—or I just lie there in bed with the lights off, loving that I’m exactly where I am.” Here, her five tips for optimizing bedtime.
3 Recipes—and More Stories—from Ripe Figs
Yasmin Khan’s experience as a journalist and human rights advocate gives her a distinctive lens as a cookbook author. Her recipes are exceptional, and the photography is stunning. But what is most striking about her books is the way she uses food to connect her readers to the people, culture, and history of the places she writes about. This time her focus is on the countries surrounding the Eastern Mediterranean: Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus.
A Nutritionist’s Flexible Plan for Weeknight Cooking
Nutritionist Maya Feller plans for a whole family’s varied needs right now—with some household members working or learning remote, going in person to the office or school, or a combination of the two. Her advice, as always, is clever, practical, and workable for many types of households and schedules.
Lessons in Chic Comfort from an Interior Design Mix Master
Behind the old–New England facade of the famously luxe Mayflower Inn & Spa lies a fresh surprise: a Celerie Kemble redesign that combines influences from all over the world—patterned-tile ceilings, ikat-wrapped lampshades, botanical murals that crawl impishly across otherwise-proper khaki walls—along with an enormously airy, cutting-edge spa from The Well and epic bone broth (and an epic entire menu) from April Bloomfield. About two hours from NYC, it’s a place to unplug, indulge, and unwind—and it’s also a near-inexhaustible source of design inspiration.
Our Top 12 Plant-Based Recipes
Eating more plants is easily the tastiest way to diversify your diet while supporting your gut microbiome and overall health. Fruits, vegetables, and grains often have naturally occurring prebiotics, which will feed the bacteria in your gut. A healthy gut microbiome can mean better digestion and improved immunity—just a few of the many benefits. Here are our top plant-based recipes to get you inspired.
5 Ways to Add a Nutritious Boost to Your Favorite Foods
Lately our food mantra has been “Yes…and”: “Yes, I’m going to enjoy my favorite foods because they are delicious and make me happy. And I’m going to try to max out their nutritional value, too.” Five of our current food obsessions from brands we love prove that enjoyment and nutrition need not be in opposition.
Grow Your Own with an Easy Kitchen Garden
We all have the capacity to grow gardens, says Jack Algiere, the farm director at the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture. And a kitchen garden is one of the easiest and most rewarding options. Essentially your own personal, at-home supply of fresh vegetables, herbs, and fruit, a kitchen garden can consist of a few plants on a kitchen windowsill, an easily assembled backyard garden bed, or something more elaborate. No matter which you choose, there’s nothing as delicious as just-picked, no matter what you’re cooking.