Let It Be Sunday, 168!

Friends! 

I hope there’s a lightness to your Spring weekend.  Lightness and rest, and at least one wood-fired pizza.  

My friend Jon and I shot a new batch of recipes for the site this week so there’s some good stuff coming up!  We celebrated our hard work with pizza, at a new place called Echo’s in New Orleans.  It’s easily on my list of perfect Spring-time meals in the city.  I’ll have a longer list of my New Orleans favorites soon.  I’m trying to get you to come visit, wontcha!?

Here are some of the things that resonated this week: 

•  Here’s what’s going on:  How Syria Came to This. (The Atlantic)

•  From the Harvard Business Review: What Most Companies Get Wrong About Men and Women.  We aren’t a problem to be ‘fixed’, let’s just switch up the narrative that we’re soft negotiators and lack confidence because well, it’s SIMPLY NOT TRUE. 

•  Fierce:  Barbara’s Backlash. (Vanity Fair)

•  We owe Beyonce a debt of gratitude for all of the important things she says in every performance choice she makes. How Beyonce’s Coachella Performance Changed The Game Forever. (Elle)

•  I remember one Christmas I didn’t get a present because I had neglected to write a timely thank-you-note.  Goodbye to the Tyranny of  Thank-You Notes.  Maybe this means we can ease up. (Slate)

•  Clap-hands:  How The Pulitzers Chose Kendrick Lamar, According To A Juror. (The Atlantic)

•  Why restaurants became so loud.  Welp, Mario Batalli is loud (and a slew of other less than graceful adjectives), and good acoustics are ‘spensive. (Vox)

•  Have you watched Wild Wild Country on Netflix yet?  I’m far enough into it to feel like this opera-saga is stranger than fiction because humans are odd, loving, fighting, territorial, bullheaded, colorful creatures.  BUT here’s this:  9 Rajneeshpuram Residents On What Wild Wild Country Got Wrong. (The Cut)

•  It feels like these words are for our souls to eat: A Community For Asking Big Questions. (On Being)

•  This week I made a fresh strawberry version of these, Ina’s Apple Pie Bars.  I’ll share the recipe with you as soon as we’re all fairly and squarely within strawberry season.   (Joy the Baker)

•  Fig Newton’s were the main cookie in our house growing up (to my great dismay) but now they hold a soft spot in my heart.  Deb made Homemade Fig Newton’s this week! (Smitten Kitchen)

•  How can I justify another KitchenAid mixer?  Their new Bird of Paradise color is a thing of (my) dreams! (KitchenAid)

•  Classic wardrobe, working on it.  Occasional trendy earring, easy. (Target)

Big love and more soon.

xo Joy