chili season, squash season, apple cider donut season
a newsletter full of Fall Things
This week’s newsletter is full of fall things, including a white chili chicken recipe, a very good roasted squash recipe, and a rec for pumpkin picking and excellent apple cider donuts.
Good things to read
Airbnb’s Original Sin | The Atlantic
Jhumpa Lahiri and Me | The New York Times
The Whiteboy Brooklyn Novelist Grows Up | The Atlantic
What Is Mom Rage, Actually? | The New Yorker
How Glossier Made Effortlessness a Billion-Dollar Brand | The New Yorker
She Invented Being an Influencer — And Was Vilified for It | Rolling Stone
Airlines Are Just Banks Now | The Atlantic
A Chile Paste So Good, It’s Protected by the U.N. | The New York Times
Millennials Have Lost Their Grip on Fashion | The Atlantic
How Thom Browne’s Gray Suit Conquered American Fashion | The New Yorker
It's not just you. LinkedIn has gotten really weird. | Business Insider
Group Chat Culture is Out of Control | The Atlantic
Sam Altman Is the Oppenheimer of Our Age | New York Magazine
Gwyneth Paltrow Looks Back at 15 Years of Goop and More: ‘Don’t Put Me on Truth Serum.’ | The New York Times
Julia Fox Didn’t Want to Be Famous, but She Knew She Would Be | The New Yorker
Five O’Clock at Restaurants Is Baby Hour | The New Yorker
Gossiping doesn’t mean you’re a bad friend | Vox
The messy art of posting through it | Vox
Why your $7 latte is $7 | Vox
The Pumpkin Spice Latte Will Outlive Us All | The New York Times
When Diet Culture Comes For Babies | Romper
The Protagonist Is Never in Control | Guernica Mag
The Great Zelle Pool Scam | Business Insider
Good things to cook
Some things I’ve cooked recently: Spicy shrimp egg roll in a bowl. Slow cooker Thai-inspired beef bowls. Roasted squash and tofu with ginger and garlic. Ground chicken larb. Chicken miso meatballs. Slow cooker white chicken chili.
Recommendations
I recently took a very dreamy trip to Portugal so I have a few Portugal-themed recommendations….
A perfect Airbnb for a group vacation: If you’re planning a large group trip like a milestone birthday, we stayed at the most amazing villa in Torreira, Portugal, outside Porto. It was huge, beautiful, and very reasonably priced, and also offered private chef services. I posted a few pictures to my Instagram stories and half a dozen people asked me for the link, so I’m also sharing it here.
What I’m drinking: Portuguese pet nats from Joao Pato, aka “Duck Man” — look for the bottles with a duck on them. I absolutely loved visiting their winery while in Portugal.
A great place for pumpkin/apple picking in NYC: If you’re based in the New York area and looking for a great place for pumpkin picking/apple picking/all the fall things that’s not too far away, I recommend Demarest Farms in New Jersey. My daughter loved it and as a bonus, they had some of the best apple cider donuts I have ever tasted.