Lifestyle - Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Known for elevating kitchen staples, the brand dropped $245 stainless steel trash and recycling bins. Are they worth buying? The seven best non-toxic cooking pans in the US, tested in a food lab Sign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to buying fewer, better things A good trash can essentially disappears. I know this because my cheap stainless steel Amazon special definitely fails this test. Sure, it does the job of separating trash and recyclables into two tiny chambers, but my dislike for it underscores every interaction we have, from trying to hide the edges of the garbage bag (impossible!) to finagling a full load from the fussy, narrow bin for disposal. And it’s hideous. Aesthetics for utilitarian items matter, especially in small kitchens like mine where there are very few places to hide a trash can. Continue reading...

From quick and easy roasts to warming curries and a centrepiece wellington, these dishes make for filling dinners, with plenty left over for lunch Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Cauliflower looks like the ghost of broccoli, or a human brain that has been drained of blood. As is the case with many overlooked vegetables, boiling is the absolutely second-worst way to cook it (we do not talk about cauliflower rice), while roasting is best, to coax out its sweet and nutty flavours. A whole head is very good and affordable in Australia at the moment and can easily feed a whole family. Continue reading...

Eat less meat, use smaller appliances, repurpose leftovers and more ways to be a climate-friendly cook.

Invoking a night imp might be ludicrous, but the superstitious and the sacred are often the same thing Sharing the load is a column about parenting children of all ages I held my daughter up to better see the passing parade. She was still small enough to lift high with my hands and I watched her reaction from below, her joy, growing in the morning light. The colour and noise moved past. “You’re missing it,” I heard someone say. But I had never seen something as beautiful as that; it seemed perfect, her smile looking down at me. My daughter appeared above me again the following morning, though something had changed. Her mouth, blood-streaked, opened to reveal a gap. She had lost her first tooth. We celebrated but I felt something else as well; it all changes from here . I wondered if it was grief. Continue reading...

Taco night got an upgrade. The post For a Simple Weeknight Dinner, Try These Crispy Black Bean Tacos appeared first on Camille Styles .

The best sales from Filter-vetted brands for safe, environmentally friendly products that are also easy on the wallet Sign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to buying fewer, better things Durable, good-for-you things often come at a premium. After all, it’s a lot cheaper to churn 1,000 plastic cutting boards out of a mold than to craft them from walnut while composting the tiniest scraps . Fortunately, a lot of our favorite brands are throwing Earth Day sales right now, making it more affordable to buy fewer, better products . We’ve rounded up the best deals worth shopping from Filter-vetted brands, including a non-toxic Our Place pan and a Pfas-free Mammut waterproof jacket. While not every sale is strictly in honor of Earth Day, they’re all prime opportunities to snag products we love from brands we trust. Continue reading...

These crispy rice treats are held together with peanut butter and honey rather than marshmallow to form cups that hold a pile of fresh raspberries.

Always wondered what everyday stuff celebrities buy, where they shop for food and the basic they scrimp on? The designer talks feminist prints, wine gums and full-fat Coke with the Filter • Don’t get the Filter delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Anya Hindmarch founded her eponymous luxury accessories business in London in 1987, and she now has 15 stores worldwide. Her I’m Not A Plastic Bag and I Am A Plastic Bag projects ignited the debate over the use of plastic bags and contributed to the decision to charge for plastic bags in UK supermarkets. In 2021, her brand launched the Universal Bag, a collaboration with supermarkets to rethink the reusable shopping bag, and Return to Nature, a collection of bags that are intended to biodegrade at the end of their useful life. Hindmarch opened the Village on Pont Street in London’s Chelsea in 2021, a community of neighbouring stores clustered around the Anya Cafe. That same year, Anya published her first book, the Sunday Times bestseller If In Doubt, Wash Your Hair . Continue reading...

“Just do something,” the noted conservationist urged in the months before she died. She advised followers to “act locally first” in the face of intractable global problems.

Partner struggled to manage alone time while letter writer enjoyed special trip with kid. Was empathy the right response?