Salivating at the mango slices. | Shutterstock I didn’t grow up eating them, but here I am all the same Kesar mango season arrived like the greatest FOMO. A friend posted on her Instagram stories that they were back, $40 a case at Patel Brothers (my closest South Asian grocer) behind the cash register, and I already felt like I was wasting time. I could make it there myself a few days later, but every day felt like a clawing panic. What if they ran out? What if, somehow, they weren’t as good as I remembered? I carried two cases home by myself on the subway, biceps and shoulders burning by the ..read more

Ruby Ash Talking to legitimately famous people is exciting, right? When brands are involved, it’s anything but. There are five minutes standing between me and a conversation with my own personal hero, Dolly Parton. I am, obviously, sweating bullets and trying to figure out how to not look like a grinning idiot when the Zoom call connects. When she appears, standing in front of a well-designed kitchen set wearing an actual fucking apron, I can barely speak. I’ve been allotted just 15 minutes for this conversation, in which I am hoping to ask Parton about her deep personal connection to Southern ..read more

Crystal White’s Wayfarer Bakery runs like a well-oiled machine After working in top bakeries for over a decade, baker Crystal White opened San Diego’s Wayfarer Bread with the goal of building community and making the best small-batch pastries she can. Since the bakery’s opening in 2018, she has achieved her goal, running one of the most successful bakeries in the U.S. “My hope is that we never have to change,” White says. A day at Wayfarer Bread begins at 3:30 in the morning. Before the sun rises, White and her team are moving: mixing doughs, shaping breads, and working the ovens. “The mornin ..read more

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Nicole Medina Endless citrus zesting and cheese grating can take a toll on a Microplane blade, but there are ways to extend its lifespan Ever since I moved into my apartment seven years ago and unwrapped a brand-new plastic-handled Microplane, I’ve been chasing the high of pulling the long, rectangular blade across a block of Parmesan for the first time. With frictionless grace, each faint wrist movement yielded a downy pile of microscopic cheese ribbons. All these years later, my zester is still trucking, but the spark is gone. Sometimes I’ll attempt to finish a bowl of pasta or risotto with ..read more

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From adaptogen powders to AG1 and collagen, why are so many of us self-medicating with supplements? When my first novel was released in 2017, I found myself depleted and exhausted. For an introverted writer, going on a book tour was a shock to the system. For the first time, I was speaking in public, fielding questions about writing, trying to put words to an intuitive endeavor. At times I was asked invasively personal questions. I felt wrung out. I don’t remember where I heard about ashwagandha, an evergreen nightshade native to India, Africa, and the Middle East, but I must have come across ..read more

Netflix In his directorial feature debut, Jerry Seinfeld tries to put a madcap spin on the Cold War-era race to create the Pop-Tart It’s garbage day one morning in 1963 in Battle Creek, Michigan. While he’s on his way to work, a Kellogg’s employee named Robert Cabana sees two kids climb straight into a dumpster. They’re happily shoveling breakfast pastries down their maw, cheeks ruddied by the strudel’s crimson sludge. It’s trash, Cabana tells them. “Is it?” the girl responds. “Or is it some hot fruit lightning the man doesn’t want you to have?” She hands it over to Cabana, and one bite result ..read more