This week’s grab bag includes clearing a path for love, the country-music equivalent of The Great British Bake Off, beige rice, and, ya know, lots more.
Are you watching My Kind of Country? Start with Dhruv Visvanath’s cover of “Ring of Fire."
Shout out to Chalo cowboy boots and this Brie Larson cover story for Harper’s Bazaar for styling inspo.
Sam Youkilis’s Instagram brought the topic of cutting citrus back to the podcast. See also: Priya Krishna and Connie Wang’s essays about cut fruit as a culturally Asian love language.
An idea: Joe Holder’s one-week-a-month reboot.
Cosigning a Jill Singers Thingie, The Rice Factory New York.
Liana Satenstein’s piece in Vogue about Donna Karan gave us the Y2k fashion we want to embrace.
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