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.