Lifestyle - Thursday, April 30, 2026

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Celebrate the Kentucky Derby with these race day recipe favorites.

Every Thursday at 11 a.m. Eastern, recipes editor Becky Krystal answers your cooking questions.

With understated precision, the father-daughter duo behind this Japanese restaurant in D.C. has built something enduring and extraordinary.

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Peonies, padel rackets and a genuinely good low-alcohol wine … whatever your plans this bank holiday, we’ve rounded up our top spring essentials so you can make the most of it • Don’t get the Filter delivered to your inbox? Sign up here The weather may or may not play ball, but a spring bank holiday is a reason to kick back, get outside and get together with friends. To help you make the most of the long weekend, we’ve rounded up some of our most-loved seasonal favourites. Whether it’s tools to spruce up your outdoor space, tipples to sip in the garden, a fake tan to jump-start your summer skin or fashion to take you from spring to summer, here are some of our favourite springtime products. Continue reading...

What we inherit in the kitchen isn’t only a list of ingredients, but a living tradition – one that shifts with our lives, our fridges and the people we feed • Sign up here for our weekly food newsletter, Feast “Chicken, leek, flour, a few more ingredients.” That was it: my grandma’s WhatsApp response to me earnestly asking if she’d mind sharing her time-honoured chicken pie recipe. She wasn’t being obtuse – well, not deliberately. She had simply never before committed a dish that was second nature to paper, let alone an iPhone screen. It wasn’t how she’d learned it and it wasn’t how I’d go on to learn it, either. I knew I’d have to make her chicken pie many times to get it even close to her standard, that I’d have to learn by watching as well as by asking, and that even then there’d be elements I’d miss. Such is the nature of a family dish – indeed, of any dish that has taken time, repetition and love to master, and for which, even then, perfection remains ephemeral. There is more to their method, meaning and flavour than can ever be confined to and conveyed by a recipe. Continue reading...

Since May 1996, a group of neighbors in Silver Spring, Maryland, has met almost every month to talk about books.