Double Take-Inducing Tiles, Boomer-Raging, And A Deathbed Lemon Pie
Last weeks of summer…
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I’ll tell you what’s better than reading Jenni Avins’ fun and informed take on “Boomer-raging” (my own term for it) and our culture’s current obsession with all things “coastal grandmother.*” The late-night text from a best friend in Australia, pointing out the article and adding: “This makes me think of us!” Old souls
(*As long as that “grandmother” bears some semblance to Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda or any other impossibly chic older woman sporting Eileen Fisher…yes, this is an admittedly tricky issue when we consider how we choose to glorify aging.)
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Delft tiles are having a moment—and in contemporary, more playful forms, too. I recently clocked these ones by designer Petra Palumbo, and here, T Magazine features three different artists’ various, sometimes naughty twists on what were once innocent pastoral scenes.
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For when you want to make your drive more fun, go from here to there. (The name pretty much says it all.)
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Long ago, my mother declared my father’s key lime pie her “deathbed pie.” I recently came across its distant cousin, only this one’s well worth living for (let’s be real, so is dad’s). Truly, I have no idea why this absurdly good (and easy!) recipe hasn’t gone more viral north of the Mason Dixon line. Even with all the local greenmarkets overflowing with baskets of fresh berries and stone fruit this time of year, I’m telling you: do not sleep on that bowl of lemons!
(Also, for more about the origins of “Atlantic Beach Pie”— and why lemon pie was the only dessert southerners indulged in after eating seafood—this is a fun read. )
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Gahhhhh! Because I was more likely skittering around the pre-school playground than “Running Up That Hill,” THIS is the 80s revival I’ve been waiting for. Just in time for back-to-school shopping, too. I’m sorry, Scandinavian minimalism—however playful—has nothing on these unabashedly decorative school supplies. I just ordered one, and I hope the plastic scent is as overpowering as I remember.