Lifestyle & Property

The Missionary in the Kitchen

The Missionary in the Kitchen 1

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story At nineteen, I was practically Christian. No sex, no drugs, a lot of desperate hopes that didn’t seem so different from prayers: to be normal, to be smart—above all, to be…

The New Generation of Online Culture Curators

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The current Internet landscape sometimes feels like the Zone in Andrei Tarkovsky’s film “Stalker”: directionless, inexplicable, bound to change in confusing ways. Our social-media feeds don’t offer much except the forward…

The Trials and Tribulations of the Boymom

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Until a few months ago, the parenting influencer Avery Woods, who has more than two million followers on TikTok, was best known for adding potty-mouthed voice-overs to videos of her toddler…

The Maillard Over-Reaction

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Things that scare me in the kitchen: mandolines, lighting a gas hob with a matchstick, onions, chicken-washing discourse, people who want to help, cooking with or without a timer, post-lasagna washing…