Three Things
10 rules for happy, healthy days, easy corn-and-tomato dinners, Andy endorses an obscure play called Hamlet
Greetings eaters and readers! I am up to my ears in news for you today, but I’ll lead with the best headline of all: Everyone is Home — all four of us under one roof. Only for one week, and a very busy week at that, but the excellent kind of busy that I’d be crazy to complain about. We hit Union Square’s Greenmarket on Saturday to hunt and gather corn, tomatoes, green beans, purple potatoes, cucumbers, blackberries, and peaches for the girls’ number one requested summer feast — Salmon Salad and cobbler for dessert — and the next day we ate our weight in tomato sandwiches because: August. In other news, for readers with younger kids, I need you to know about two books being published today: The wildly family-friendly What to Cook When You Don’t Feel Like Cooking, by Substack phenom Caroline Chambers; And Mousetown, the sweetest storybook that follows Mouse as he goes about his day in his home town. The book, which weaves in more than 30 craft projects to recreate scenes using everyday …