Lifestyle - Wednesday, May 6, 2026

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Washington Post food critic Elazar Sontag entertains your restaurant questions, rants and raves.

Food is an important part of what many of us hope to pass on, for Mother’s Day and beyond.

Easy like Sunday morning. The post Mother’s Day Brunch Recipes You Can Absolutely Pull Off appeared first on Camille Styles .

Warm weather got you itching for new greenery? Our expert shares the dos and don’ts of plant shopping with the planet in mind • The best places to buy plants online, according to top gardeners With spring in full swing, it’s time to go shopping for plants. While adding to or creating a garden has obvious green credentials, some plants are more sustainable than others. Whether it’s hidden peat, throwaway plants, high water and energy use, transport emissions or plastic pots that can’t be recycled, here’s what to avoid – and what is better to buy instead – for a truly sustainable plot. Continue reading...

The key lesson from Carolyn Bessette Kennedy’s style is to keep the messaging simple Carolyn Bessette Kennedy has been an insider style icon for ever, but this year she has flipped from under-the-radar reference to global phenomenon. Ryan Murphy’s Love Story , a glossy dramatisation of her doomed romance with JFK Jr, gave us nine delicious hours of lingering closeups of her white tank tops and jeans, her simple black dresses, perfect black oval sunglasses and tortoiseshell headbands. If you didn’t know you wanted to dress like CBK before you started watching, you did by the end. Carole Radziwill, who was friends with Carolyn, has pointed out that copying CBK’s style is pretty much the least CBK thing you could do. Her friend, she told the Deuxmoi podcast, “pulled her hair back in a headband because she didn’t want to wash it every day. She did what felt natural to her and she dressed in things that made her feel comfortable and most like herself. Mostly jeans and button-downs and T-shirts. The takeaway is not to mimic her style, but to do and wear what feels most authentic to you. Be yourself. She was very much herself.” Continue reading...

Letter writer’s teen daughter is throwing alarming tantrums because she doesn’t have the phone she wants.

Depression treatments focus mostly on decreasing negative emotions. But a study finds that increasing positive ones might be more effective.