May this video of Stanley Tucci doing a cocktail masterclass be a blessing on your Friday
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Some thoughts on what life could look like in a post-Coronavirus world (“We will get used to seeing temperature-screening stations at public venues. Airlines may contemplate whether flights can be reserved for different groups of passengers—either high- or low-risk… On dating apps, people will specify (with varying degrees of accuracy) whether they’ve had COVID-19. Casual making out will come to seem reckless. A handshake? Have those test results ready. A friendly hug? I don’t even know your last name.”)
Haunting, heroic photographs from inside New York’s public hospitals
We’ve been loving watching the YouTube series ‘Some Good News With John Krasinski’, and the latest ep is a cracker: With the help of Billie Eilish, the Jonas Brothers, and Chance the Rapper, John Krasinski threw a virtual prom for high school students stuck at home because of the pandemic. Don’t miss Brad Pitt doing the weather report and a brief segment from the International Space Station. (Here’s where all the episodes live if you need an instant pick-me-up)
“Fighting coronavirus means I haven’t seen my kids in a month”
This article about mastering the art of making a French omelette is one of the most soothing pieces of food writing we’ve read in a long time (also, this will absolutely convince you to attempt said omelette tomorrow morning, so here’s your friendly reminder to stock up on eggs tonight)
Your quarantine personality, according to your star sign
Everything you ever wanted to know about cooking one-pot pasta, including some absolutely KILLER flavour combinations
Over on Twitter, the comedian Naomi Ekperigin asked ‘So, how are we ending phone conversations now that we have nowhere to go?’ and the answers are fucking brilliant
Also on Twitter, hundreds of people shared their desert island dancing jams and New Yorker staff writer Rachel Syme put them all in a Spotify playlist called Dance Away The Pain (Pandemic Edition). There’s some absolute BANGERS in there. We know what we’re doing tonight 💃
Stories of people having babies in the pandemic (“I was scheduled for an induction because I was late. Twenty-four hours beforehand, we found out that our hospital wasn’t letting partners in. My ob-gyn was stuck in Florida and she wasn’t going to be there. I had a breakdown.”)
Recipes we’ve bookmarked this week include this vegetarian chicken soup, creamy tofu noodles, every single toastie on this top 10 toastie list in the Guardian, Bon Appetit’s just-keeps-getting-better lentil salad, this easy no-knead tomato and mozzarella bread that’s delightfully shaped like a boat, Ottolenghi’s stuffed aubergine with lamb and pine nuts, and this sunny, simple, lemony Italian tea cake from Smitten Kitchen.
Call us nostalgic, but we’ve recently started watching old school flicks every Thursday night, and it’s been such a highlight of our week that we’ve officially coined it Throwback Thursday Movie Night… and we’d love ya’ll to join us! We’ve started compiling a Google Doc of the films we plan to watch, and we’d love for you to add your own suggestions. We’ve included streaming options where available, and we’ll continue to add films as they come to mind. (ps. Next Thursday we’re gonna kick back with the 1987 classic The Lost Boys…)
