Lifestyle - Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Creamy, citrusy, sweet, salty—this one hits every note. The post This Blood Orange Burrata Toast Is the Prettiest Thing You’ll Eat All Spring appeared first on Camille Styles .

Airport TSA lines are long, gas prices are increasing and some international travel is off the table.

I can’t get enough of cabbage right now, and it’s the perfect wrap for this warmly spiced picadillo filling I love stuffed vegetables. When I was young, I came across a recipe for stuffed aubergines in an old book of my mother’s and must have cooked it a score of times. Later, in the early 1990s and to the echoes of nouvelle cuisine, Delia Smith showed us how we could work similar magic with peppers and tomatoes. Then the technique went deeply out of fashion, but I stayed loyal, and continued quietly stuffing tomatoes, pumpkins and courgettes, all no doubt influenced by my travels in Mexico. Thoday’s stuffed cabbage is inspired by the most delicious tongue in a tantalisingly light escabeche that I once had at Nicos in Mexico City , and also because I can’t get enough of cabbage at the moment. Continue reading...

Psychologist Leanne ten Brinke has spent decades studying toxic personality traits. What are the red flags to look out for among workmates, politicians and potential partners? Coming face to face with a probable psychopath was enough to make Dr Leanne ten Brinke rethink her career choices. Early in her 20s, while studying forensic psychology in Halifax, in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, Ten Brinke was volunteering at a parole office, which would hold weekly group meetings for released sex offenders. “Most of the men showed contrition,” says Ten Brinke. “They really seemed to recognise the damage that they had done.” Except for one. The treatment programme seemed “like a game to him”, she says. One week, in a discussion about the impact their crimes had on victims, this rapist stared at Ten Brinke and, smiling slightly, started to say how much his victim looked like her, “and how I was ‘his type’. Clearly he was trying to scare me, and he did.” It put her off a career working with convicted criminals, but she remained fascinated with “dark personalities” – psychopathy, mainly, but also narcissism, machiavellianism (manipulating and exploiting others) and sadism. From politics to business to the media, it wasn’t as if there was a shortage of people to study. There were selfish, callous, impulsive and manipulative people everywhere, often presenting as gregarious and charming. “It started to occur to me that these traits aren’t just confined to an underworld. These traits appear in all aspects of our lives,” she says. Continue reading...

Letter writer learned not to get her hopes up, but her kids receive that lesson as “sucking the joy out of everything.”

After a lifelong desire to put pen to paper, the letter writer wonders how to finally start writing.

Relative meant to wish the letter writer a happy anniversary for their current marriage – not their first marriage that ended decades ago.

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