Originals

KID FRIENDLY: Address: 31 Rue de Paradis, 75010, Paris, FR Website: www.paris.fr/loisirs/musees-expos Phone: +33 140 22 05 55 One of three literary museums in the city, the Musée de la Vie Romantique was formerly the home and salon of Dutch painter Ary Scheffer and the preferred haunt of George Sand and Eugène Delacroix. Follow their lead by […]

Elizabeth Street is headed north—adding one of the world’s most beautiful capital cities to our growing list of City Guides curated by our impressive network of moms-in-the-know. This is one city that can boast both beauty and brains (it is, after all, home of the Nobel Prize), making it a fantastic place to visit or raise a family. Often

Here at Food52, we love recipes—but do we always use them? Of course not. Because once you realize you don’t always need a recipe, you’ll make your favorite dishes a lot more often. Today: Food52’s Associate Editor Kenzi Wilbur holds vinaigrettes near and dear to her heart. This is how she makes them —for vegetables, for salads, for finger-dipping—without a

Every week we take a peek inside the lunches of the luckiest kids in Brooklyn. Read on, suppress your jealousy, and get a little brown bag inspiration. Frittata is my friend when it comes to making lunch. I can cook it the night before (this one brings together leftover roasted potatoes, spinach, and grated pecorino), and simply slice it in

Usually, when I think of a “special night,” I think of times when I’m on my couch without pants on, watching The West Wing on Netflix and eating ratatouille in February. Or I recall parties where I make platters of nachos and get drunk off of cheap wine, and then hold my friends hostage while I sing

I have had the good fortune to have several meetings with Peggy Reimann, an education consultant with a passel of brilliant ideas about nurturing a love of reading and even encouraging an understanding and sense of friendliness with—gasp!—math. She urged us to quit cold turkey anything like flash cards, and the strange but common process of

A sweet tooth is like a long-distance relationship. Because unless your favorite dessert is in your hand right now, it isn’t close enough. Maybe, if you’re lucky, it’s at the bakery around the corner. Or maybe it’s halfway around the world, a memory of that sweet, summertime fling you had in Paris once. You long

As the heat index rises, so will your grocery bill this summer. It’s all thanks to Mother Nature, who has been doing a number on our food supply. Ongoing droughts have bumped up prices for produce and produced a trickle-down effect on meat, since feeding cattle has become costlier. At the same time, a virus