Sweet Enough
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Tourist Trapp Travel Guides
We frequently get asked for travel recommendations, and I keep pretty detailed Google Maps lists categorized by city with restaurants, shops and other sights that I’ve either been to or have read about. I send these out all the time to friends and family, but we now have them live on our site for anyone else that wants to access.
We just have four locations for the time being, but we’re going to continue adding more each week. And keep an eye for a coffee table book coming soon!
Sweet Enough
Cook book author and minor millennial celebrity Alison Roman has a new cookbook out called Sweet Enough, centered around deserts and baking.
Her recipes are pull together interesting flavors, photograph well, and most importantly, are very quick and don’t require a lot of ingredients! Speed in the kitchen is of the utmost importance for us these days.
Her star was rising fast until she made some comments about Marie Kondo and Chrissy Teigen being sell outs, after which she was summarily suspended from the New York Times and put in the penalty box. She seems to be going about her life, and is now making public appearances again:
Roman said there are only two ways someone can move forward: "slink away into oblivion," or act like nothing ever happened.
We still make her delicious Date Chicken about once a month, despite not knowing whether polite society has forgiven her yet.
Geneva Watch Market
The biggest watch show of the year is happening in Geneva at the moment. Linking to a big review of all the new watches that were revealed.
The Rolex team garnered a ton of press, launching a new solid gold GMT as well as Day-Date with a puzzle piece dial and emoji date window.
Cam Wolf has been exhaustively chronicling the show’s behind-the-scene moments for GQ here.
Saturday April 1
We decided to change up our Saturday routine. We took Noemi to a small art museum last weekend, which she loved and more importantly she did not destroy anything. I famously manhandled a Picasso at MOMA when I was her age, but Noemi behaved herself.
This set us up to take her to the Met’s Temple of Dendur, where she ran around and generally entertained the whole room. The Met is actually quite empty if you go early enough in the morning, it turns out, and she was able to run off all of the pancakes, blackberries and flaky pastries she sampled for breakfast.
And of course, we got her a some gift shop swag: this campus sweatshirt, but in blue to match her eyes.
Before hitting the Met, we had a quiet breakfast at The Mark. It was not very busy, and as it is a hotel restaurant, they are set up to accommodate kids. When we walked in, we got side-eyed from a lady in sunglasses dining solo at a corner table for six, but Noemi was intently focused on her stack of pancakes and didn’t make a peep.
Raquel and I ended the day with dinner at NYT four star restaurant Le Bernadin, which we dissect in this week’s podcast! Raquel wore her new Toteme dress and looked fabulous!
Links.
King Charles’s coronation logo.
A 140K per month rental apartment.
The Hidden Ecosystem of Free Vacation Stuff.
Celine’s summer tennis capsule.
An interview with Zara’s Marta Ortega Perez.
A depressing trend of high seniors posting about their rejected college applications.
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Chris & Raquel