Audrey Watters

A very busy week. A very busy Monday, so a bulleted list to describe said week: Reading: Finished A Pocketful of Happiness; continuing Filterworld; finished A Feast for Starving Stone; started Every Man for Himself and God Against All; started Be Useful Cooking: White chili with chicken and quinoa and...

The weather -- the first substantial snowfall in New York City in over 700 days -- made it a weird week. The snowfall and the bitterly, bitterly cold that followed. And the wind, my god. I remember in school in England one of the teachers said that Americans had invented...

On Thursday, I was working at my desk when out of the corner of my eye, I saw a large black shape fly then fall. A giant raptor diving after some poor pigeon? Perhaps a piece of patio equipment blown off the neighboring apartment’s terrace -- it has been incredibly...

I'm a big To Do list kind of person. I add all sorts of tasks — big and small — to my list (I use a piece of software called Things). I glance at how many items are on it in the morning and sort of gauge how my day...

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...