Lifestyle - Thursday, May 14, 2026

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

All day rosé—with or without the alcohol. The post The Best Rosé Wines Under $30—Plus NA Picks Worth Pouring appeared first on Camille Styles .

These ‘peace of mind’ plans are enormously profitable for the companies that sell them, but they’re usually terrible deals for consumers.

Agonising over what to buy the three-year-old in your life? Our writer enlisted a panel of mini testers to round up the best of the best • The best gifts for two-year-olds Three-year-olds are a unique breed. Growing in confidence and independence daily, they’re no longer toddlers, but they’re still a way off starting school. With both of my children, I’ve found three a funny yet challenging age. My youngest is three and is now determined to do everything by herself, despite not quite being able to, resulting in frequent tantrums. She’s forming new friendships and is full of curiosity and wonder at the world (we get extremely detailed and lengthy descriptions of the tadpoles living in her classroom). Three-year-olds are into just about everything, with the confidence of someone much older – especially anything you put out of reach (my three-year-old just successfully opened several wrapped presents that weren’t for her) – but too much choice can be overwhelming for them. Continue reading...

Your ultimate picnic packing list for every al fresco occasion. The post The Art of the Effortless Summer Picnic appeared first on Camille Styles .

Perhaps the non-alcoholic alternative for wine drinkers should not be a wine at all, but a different sip altogether? We slurp through some likely candidates … After my positive pregnancy test eight years ago, the first thing I did was buy an industrial quantity of the non-alcoholic aperitivo Crodino , which is something of a negroni dupe for bitters hounds. There are plenty of really good, alcohol-free cocktail options nowadays, and beer drinkers, too, are amply catered for in the non-alcoholic department – but what of wine? I may sound like an old fart, but for me, at 41, the pleasure of drinking wine is more about a sense of occasion than the stuff’s mind-altering qualities. (Collagen and social inhibition, I have discovered, wane in tandem.) So the challenge for wine drinkers who aren’t drinking is to find a proxy to sip and enjoy in the same way. Something that comes in a wine bottle. Something you drink from a glass with a stem. Something that works with food. Something that isn’t Shloer . Continue reading...

Why I skip dessert, a case for eating earlier and more takeaways from our food critic’s first months of breakneck dining.