Ooooohhhhh juicy ’80s throwback! “Bedroom” by Litany is all about enticing some high school flame to come back to your house for a hookup. Or at least, that’s the vibe it gives off– there are some lyrics about offices that create some life stage ambiguity, but the line, “If you wanna come to my house then / You can meet my parents” brings it straight back to adolescence. Anyway, it all feels sweet and pink and fuzzy, and coming from such an intelligently named duo as Litany, it’s worthy of your trust. Play now.
In a continuation of what appears to be a very effective period of introspection, Ikea is rolling out a new feature: rentals.
Earlier this year, they announced the opening of a Manhattan location because, surprise, no one likes to schlep out to the suburbs to carry furniture home. This time, as it turns out, people don’t own Ikea furniture forever (!) so the store is giving us an option to limit our visible period of transient youth. It’s all an effort to reduce their corporate waste, and conveniently it helps you reduce your own. On the one hand, thanks, but on the other, where was this option two broken bed frames ago?
Can we talk about what a grand accomplishment Alison Roman has made? Through her dissemination of hip recipes via the New York Times and Bon Appetit, she has managed to produce recipes so ubiquitous that social media has reduced them to their bare identities– #TheCookies, #TheStew— TWICE in the last few months. (Which cookies? Which stew!)
Inevitably, Vox has now published a highly objectifying piece about how these recipes provide “proof that millennials are embracing home cooking.” But of course. “Millennials’ lifestyles” of student debt and ineptitude (‘for them, a recipe must be… cookable!’), perhaps in addition to their penchant for the color yellow, made the recipes “go viral.” And don’t forget Roman, “who at 33 is a millennial herself,” leading her naturally to cook for others of her kind. The proof is in the pudding, guys. (Er, sorry, #ThePudding. Alison, that’s your cue.)
FYI, if you’re just dabbling in viral cooking, you can rent this stockpot from partyrentals.us for $16.50 a day.
Here’s lookin’ at you, Hemnes.
Margot
PS Some of us are not dabbling. I still have a parsley temp tat on my arm from last week’s Meal Among Friends, the workshop-dinner I hosted with Listings Project and League of Kitchens. It was so deeply delightful– imagine a dimly lit Chinatown dining room full of moms and grandmas from Japan, Uzbekistan, Lebanon, and Afghanistan, mingling with a bunch of younger New Yorkers and transplants, all laughing as they chopped. Or if your imagination is tired, you can just look at some photos taken by our photog Emily Hlavac Green. (In those photos, keep an eye out for St. Agrestis‘ very sexy bottled Negronis– entirely worthy of a cameo at your next party.)
I loved meeting some of you in person. And, everyone on the waitlist, we missed you. This made us want to host dinners more often though, so there may be more opportunities.
Thanks to all who came for a special evening, and I hope to meet more of you soon.
Margot
