Audrey Watters

It's been a whirlwind week of visitors — again, one of the great things about moving to the city. On Christmas Day, we went ice skating at Rockefeller Center with Kaia. It was Kin's first time ever on the ice and my first time in probably 35 years or so....

Every year, instead of relaxing over the holidays — which I think we all say we plan to do — I end up taking on some massive project. This year, it's moving my new newsletter off of Substack. I'll write more about the why and the how, but tl;dr Nazis....

There’s a wicked storm happening right now, and Poppy is staring at me on this Monday morning, waiting for me to grab my shoes and socks so we can do the usual morning walk. Dear dog: it’s not going to happen. Not right now. The last Second Breakfast newsletter of...

Last night, I ate the best dessert I've ever had in my life: the corn husk meringue from Cosme: a meringue made from corn husks, as the name suggests, served with a sweet corn mousse. I love a dessert that isn't overly sweet — indeed, up until last night, my...

After living in New York for four months, we finally had our first celebrity sighting on Monday: Marcus Brigstocke and Rachel Parris at Senza Gluten. Okay, okay — we invited them, and their dear little boy, for dinner. (It was nice to be able to go to a gluten-free restaurant...

The Thanksgiving holiday was very mellow — just Kin and I (and Poppy). But one can feel the energy/excitement/anxiety building for the holidays here in the city. So while we were as relaxed as possible, everyone else is increasingly getting into that frenetic mode that makes this time of year...

The week that was: Cooking — I made blueberry swirl blondies — a recipe from the new Snacking Bakes cookbook; cauliflower potato bean soup; chicken breasts with miso-garlic sauce (which were supposed to cook at 500 degrees and as such set off the fire alarm); taco pasta; "superhero" muffins; tomato...

Working: I recorded the next podcast episode with Lee. I still have to go through the transcript and prepare it for publication; it'll go up next week. I published the usual recipe, essay, and weekly news roundup. I'm going to take some time off over the holidays, I think, and...

I am exhausted, and I didn't even run the marathon yesterday. I did, however, volunteer from 8-2 at the hydration station at Mile 25. I didn't expect it to be quite such a crush, but it was a warm day, and the minute that the runners started passing us, it...

I can't believe how quickly this month has flown by. We've almost been in NYC four months now. Wild. In some ways, we're mostly settled. Oh sure, we're still dealing with the bureaucracies that make things like getting car insurance and getting the car licensed an absolute pain-in-the-ass. (We did...