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Currently is a paid segment of Record Store. You can subscribe for less than five dollars per month here. The older I get, the more I’m willing to admit that I actually like country music. I wasn’t a huge Maren Morris fan when I worked her show a few weeks ago, but since then I’ve had her songs stuck in my head. She knows what’s up—it feels so good to sing about a truck and a country road.

I love not being on TikTok but intuiting TikTok trends from Spotify data. I think this song must be trending? Someone let me know. On Monday, four of my friends texted to inform me that Phoebe Bridgers is engaged to Paul Mescal, her longterm partner and star of the Hulu adaptation of Normal People (2018). I had a lot of thoughts about this news, most of which revolve around feeling unmoored by the idea that someone whose music is so sad and honest about the ugly parts of relationships could have so much faith and trust in someone that she marries them.

In last week’s newsletter, I alluded to the idea of the “Something & Tonic.” Tonic, of course, goes famously well with gin. But it plays nicely with a variety of other bottles as well, including some you might not expect — like Cynar. (Say it with me now: Put Cynar in everything!)  There’s no trick to this drink, no fancy technique or structural hack. I use the same 10:3 ratio as I employ for a Gin & Tonic, and I’m even less fussy about the preparation.

She’s here friends, and she is beautiful. After a year + of research, writing, and testing 100 recipes, another year for edits, photography, and design, and months of anxious waiting for the physical book to be printed and shipped to stores, PORTICO: Cooking and Feasting in Rome’s Jewish Kitchen (W.W. Norton) is officially out today. I am so proud of this book. It is an honor to help share the stories behind Rome’s 2,000-year old Jewish history and introduce readers to the vibrant community that keeps the traditions, and amazing cuisine, alive today.

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As a kid I was only allowed pasta on Friday nights (can you imagine?) and would only ever pick Rao’s marinara or Giada’s lemon pasta. But now that I’m the one making dinner, I don’t always feel like grating the heap of Parmesan that Giada’s lemon pasta requires, and my stomach doesn’t always want to accept any form of dairy. I never have heavy cream anyways, and blending cashews is simply no.

Share Small screen, big ideas Share There’s an episode of documentary parody series “Documentary Now,” by Fred Armisen and Bill Hader that takes aim at the ubiquitous genre of music documentaries, which anyone who grew up on VH1 Behind the Music will instantly recognize. In two parts, overwrought talking heads (real musicians) discuss the absurd rise of a fictional ‘70s band called The Blue Jean Committee, their melodramatic downfall, and where they are now.

This post contains a major spoiler… I spent too much time on the weekend thinking and defending elsewhere one single scene in Episode 10 which meant I wasn’t able to get to what I thought was actually the more important aspects of the recent episodes. Too much energy in my opinion was spent on the controversial lead-up to the kissing scene in Episode 10 that the fascinating revelations in the same episode got lost in the rough and tumble of internet discourse.