It makes sense that Ramadan is so difficult to practice, in its purest form, in such a distracted and desensitized nation. Influenced by mystical…
Welcome to the first edition of Cozy Questions, a new column in which TIE Nonfiction Editor, Christine Ro, interviews her best foodie friends! The…
A fragile seed encased within a jelly-like surface. The moment I bite in, I’m met with a savory and slightly bittersweet crimson juice. I…
One morning, when I was sitting on the bench in our hallway, not even wanting to tie my shoes, my husband said to me,…
“She looks just like a piece of cake,” say the courtiers, when Marie Antoinette’s at the dinner table. True enough. In Sofia Coppola’s 2006…
2023 was for Girl Dinner. I, you, we as girls ate Girl Dinner most nights of the week, if “dinner” can be at midnight…
When Jon proposed in a bookstore last summer, I slid my hand into his and said “yes” as readily as I would any question…
I grew up in a farmhouse in Ireland where my mother baked every day. Tarts and crumbles and homemade bread, using apples from the…
I’ve always been an early riser. When I was a kid, I would wake up before everyone else, blinking into the dark, and creep…