Three Things

Some very special guest stars, the case for the Mai Tai, a one-dish dinner for summer nights, and more!

Greetings eaters and readers! I very much wish I could write today’s newsletter, but unfortunately I have been trapped in the corner of my dining room behind a wall of dishes and bowls and jars and cutting boards and forks — so many forks! — and I cannot seem to escape. YES FRIENDS, the photo shoot for my Weekday Vegetarians follow-up, helmed by Christine Han, is five days underway and I couldn’t be more pleased with our progress. I’m working on a big behind-the-scenes write-up of the whole thing for subscribers (coming Friday), but in the meantime, because I would never actually leave you hanging, I enlisted three of my favorite Substack writers to pitch in on today’s Three Things: Andrea Nguyen, who writes the highly useful, highly tasty Pass the Fish Sauce and is the author several cookbooks including, most recently Ever-Green Vietnamese; Michael Ruhlman, legendary food writer, and the man behind Ruhlman’s Newsletter (when he talks TV, movie, and book recs, I listen!) and author of…