The Weekly Edit

mystery is the new flex, cookbook club, sleep athletes & an ode to barneys

Hi and happy Sunday! The first Sunday of spring - how does it feel?

Growing up in relatively season-less LA, I wasn’t particularly attuned to what spring felt like - that full-body experience of renewal that unfolds through the senses. The warmth of the sun on your skin after months of cold, the once barren trees and plants coming alive before your very eyes, the hum of bees and birds busily working, the intoxicating fragrances of grasses and flowers carried by the shifting wind, the knowing that you’re tasting fresh, seasonal produce - perhaps picked from the farm just across the way.

Moving somewhere with seasons has taught me to appreciate these simple joys and made me realize just how generous spring is. If winter can feel like a time of scarcity - the things we lose to cold weather and shorter days - then spring is a season of abundance. More sunshine, flowers blooming without restraint, good moods flowing, good times unfolding effortlessly. Spring just gives. And how lucky are we to receive it?

“When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.” - Ernest Hemingway

This week’s edit:

• Is mystery the new flex?

• This creator spent 5 months cooking the NYT’s 50 most popular recipes and wrote about are her favorites, the biggest letdowns, the most viral hits, the surprise standouts, and the NYT recipe that should have made the list. As an avid NYT Cooking app user, I realllly appreciated this.

• Graydon Carter wrote a memoir and it’s avail for pre-order. “From the pages of Vanity Fair to the red carpets of Hollywood, editor Graydon Carter’s memoir revives the glamorous heyday of print magazines when they were at the vanguard of American culture.”

• A thinking woman’s guide to living and loving like Socrates.

• Stylist Allison Bornstein popularized the "Three Word Method" to define personal style which is where you choose three adjectives that encapsulate how you want to present yourself. But, have you ever defined in three words what kind of parent you want to be?

• Butter yellows and creams paired with blacks and dreamy tablescapes with shell details (I ordered these shell butter molds), lots of cheese, honey and olives is on my mind for spring.

• Gwyneth Paltrow is on the cover of Vanity Fair and gave a great interview from her Montecito home on motherhood, MAHA, Meghan Markle, making out with Timothée Chalamet for her big return to film and asking one big question: Who am I now? It’s a great read - carve out some time for this one, it’s a bit longer.

• These 3 goop-y lunch bowls sound delicious.

• Is the “female viagra” revolution finally here?

• Millennials and gen z are fighting again. This time about gym clothes. Are you team tight-on-tight or tight-on-baggy when you workout?

• A spring bucket list to end all bucket lists.

• I went to cookbook club and we cooked out of Six Seasons and Sunday Suppers at Lucques. Both such great books!

• At cookbook club, pansies were on the ricotta pea toast and in the salad. They’re such pretty edible flowers - may need to plant some.

• How protein took over the wellness world. I’m into Perelel’s creamy vanilla.

• I finished two shows - Landman and Apple Cider Vinegar. Both were so good! What to watch next?

• Where are all my Oak Essentials girls? From 3/20-3/25 all orders $98+ come with a free vitamin-rich renew face polish. I’ll be snagging the peptide serum. The hydration heroes and the moisture rich duo make great gifts too.

• What Your Manicure Says About U (it's political).

• Merit launched lip liners this week. They’re “a modern gel formula in eight shades inspired by the ‘90s.” Into!

• Cute mother - daughter moment in my cart.

• I enjoyed this piece: quiet luxury is a bummer. A nice reminder to dress for your frequency.

• Pillbox hats, peter pan collars, leopard print…the ‘60s are trending.

• What’s the difference between a pair of $30 Jeans and $300 Jeans?

• Nordstrom is up to 50% off (I’m buying the children new shoes) and Neiman Marcus is 25% off.

• Walking is medicine.

• COS x Linda Farrow sunglasses…so good, right?

• I heard someone use the term “sleep athlete” to describe the idea that sleep, specifically 7 to 9 hours, is the ultimate performance enhancer. And honestly, that’s the kind of athlete I aspire to be.

• This app limits your screen time by making you literally touch grass. Kind of funny, kind of genius, kind of sums up where we are as a society.

• Escapism is the new marketing currency.

• We’re in the era of the opt-out economy.

• An ode to Barneys New York.

If you enjoyed this, would you be kind enough to give it a little heart? I hope you have a nice Sunday! See you back here on Thursday.

xx,

G