Each Friday, we present our favorite stories from the week. Here’s what caught our attention this week, in no particular order:

Recreating the Redhead’s Bacon Peanut Brittle [Nate Cooks]
It’s understanding how this ultimate bar food could …

Forget what you’ve heard from the parenting magazines your doctor or anyone else who tells you otherwise.
TV is good for your kids.
How do I know this?
Because I have seen firsthand what Lack of TV can …

Have you ever imagined being an expatriate somewhere fabulous? In the daytime you sweat, you write or paint, later, in a liminal hour you meet friends at undistinguished cafes to drink and debate. Due to …

I never really cared for babies, even when I was one. I was the only child for more than five years and I enjoyed late nights playing cards with my parents, aunts and uncles; cross …

On my husband Joel’s computer, which sits opposite mine in the office we share, is a single sticker.  It features a yellow cartoon rooster proudly crowing the phrase “any cockle do.”  Below the rooster, it …

My mom kept in a cupboard the CT Junior Women Club plastic ring bound book of recipes overstuffed with clippings, note cards, and labels, which she would consult approximately once per year for the family …

A whole ton of adorable packed into a tiny kitchen: Jill Santopietro, cook and recipe tester for the New York Times Magazine, creates a smoker out of a wok in her tiny New York City …

Poached eggs on toast rank as one of our favorite things to eat for breakfast, and seem to present the best possible “yolk on toast” scenario. We have always poached our eggs the way my …

When I got pregnant with my second baby, I had absolutely no illusions about natural childbirth.
I had experienced labor without drugs and I had experienced labor with drugs.  And I had learned a very important …

You could argue that I’ve been selfish for the past thirty years. But this year it was in earnest. This year I really made an effort to be hedonistic, gluttonous, and a consummate consumer. I …