In her new memoir Save Me the Plums, former Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl delivers an intimate account of her tenure at the beloved food magazine, where she accomplished everything from publishing David Foster Wallace’s now-famous “Consider the Lobster” essay to cooking for rescue workers on 9/11. She also details an experience very few have had: […]
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When we ask newlyweds to think back on what they wanted most for their big day — and we’ve interviewed hundreds of them over the years — the most common response is: “For it not to feel like a wedding!” But in a monsoon of flower crowns and macaroon towers, how do you see beyond […]
Imagine this. You enter Jake Gyllenhaal’s home. Maybe you’re there to have sex with him, or maybe you’re there just to hang out because you guys are friends. Maybe you were invited to a dinner party he’s hosting, or maybe you’re attending the dinner party as a plus-one, and you’re nervous. Regardless, you enter through […]
Celebs were busy calling out bloggers this week, but they still made time to party in Hollywood and New York City. Over in California, bright colors were in. Kris Jenner wore a polka-dot dress with matching sunglasses. Rebecca Black wore neon heels to make an understated black dress a little more fun. In New York […]
When you have a leader who constantly spews lies and misinformation into the public sphere, you must savor the small victories. So it was on Friday morning, when President Trump made what would have been an unremarkable statement for almost any public official, past or present. The president’s endorsement of vaccines, which comes as the […]
Philippe d’Ornano, the president of Sisley Paris, likes to share a favorite story about his mother, the über-elegant French countess Isabelle d’Ornano. Back in the late ’60s, on one of her first visits to New York, she walked into the tony midtown Manhattan restaurant, La Caravelle, wearing trousers. The maitre d’ promptly informed her that […]
Earlier this week, I was reading a tweet from a writer I admire (the new “I was enjoying a novel”?), and she ended it with a parenthetical that should have had the period outside the close parenthesis (like this). But instead, it ended like (this.) I know it’s stupid, but this inconsequential error drives me […]
Every day, we put out into the world a version of how we want to be seen — and, of course, we’re always misunderstood. Each week in our “Judgments” photo project, we’re asking strangers on the streets of New York City to size each other up. Joanna (above) GUESSES“She’s standing with a Louis Vuitton bag […]
Long gone are John Mayer’s days as a part-time beauty vlogger — today, the man’s all about luxury candles. It appears that Mayer halted his smoky-eye tutorials and pivoted to reviewing Diptyque’s “Feu de Bois” candle about two weeks ago, when he created the Instagram Stories Highlights, “FEU DE BOIS” — or, as he elects […]