Spicy Party Mix: For Margaux Laskey’s take, start with 16 cups of your ideal combination of cereal, nuts, pretzels, cheese or rice crackers, bagel chips and sesame sticks. Melt ¼ cup butter...
Read moreSet a large bowl filled with punch in the center of a party and step back. Watch the merrymakers gather, the conversation flow and the awkward moments be thwarted through the offering...
Read moreA few weeks ago, my uninsulated home had a chill in it that I couldn’t chase away. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that I started craving my grandmother’s matoke — the...
Read moreWhen James Bond famously ordered his martini “shaken and not stirred,” he was only telling two-thirds of the story. Because those aren’t the only bartending techniques available. There is also throwing, in...
Read moreI moved from Seoul to New York earlier this year and now split my time between the two cities. After a few months of being in the United States, it felt important...
Read moreThe 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...
Read moreClaire Foy: We formed a really strong bond . It felt like so little time had passed since the shoot , and the film went down really well , so it was...
Read moreOf 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...
Read moreOf 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...
Read moreThe 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...
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