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July 1, 2026 
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On the Greek Island of Crete, Villas That Come With Private Pools and Morning Bread Baskets
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| Left: in Crete, Greece, each of the five Tierras Villas suites has its own swimming pool. Right: an open-plan bedroom with marble flooring and a custom-designed light by the Cretan company Feggo. Jim Kaligas |
Danae and Konstantina Orfanake grew up in a hotel — their father, Yannis Orfanakis, and his twin brother, Niko, started the hotel group Omicron on the Greek island of Crete in 1991. Now the sisters have applied their lifelong experience to Tierras Villas, which opens this month on the north coast of Crete. The five one- and two-bedroom cliffside villas are a 10-minute walk to the sandy Mononaftis Beach, a popular scuba diving spot, and a seven-minute drive from the low-key seaside village of Agia Pelagia. The stone buildings are designed to disappear into the landscape, and the natural look continues inside, with Festos Cretan stone and Sinai marble in the bathrooms, and rustic oak planks on the floors and walls of the living areas and bedrooms. Furniture, sourced from Studio Obscoura in Athens, includes Torii stools modeled on the traditional gates found at Japanese Shinto shrines, and sculptural Barbare chairs by the French furniture maker Bosc. Each villa has its own 11-meter swimming pool, and guests can use tennis and padel courts, a spa with a hammam, and other facilities at Acro Suites, a short walk away. Breakfast, delivered in handmade baskets, features freshly baked bread and local graviera cheese; the restaurant at Acro offers Cretan food such as gamopilafo, a rice-and-meat dish often served at celebrations. One-bedroom villas from about $1,300 a night including breakfast, three-night minimum stay; tierrasvillas.com.
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Sorghum, an Ancient Grain, Finds New Fans
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| Left: sorghum, an ancient grain rich in nutritional value, is harvested both for the sweet juice of its stalks and for the grain itself. Right: an ice cream sandwich on cinnamon challah toast topped with popped caramelized sorghum, on the dessert menu at the New York restaurant Oberon. Left: iStock/Getty Images. Right: Alex Staniloff |
Sorghum, an ancient African grain, likely arrived in the United States alongside enslaved people; by 1757, Benjamin Franklin wrote about the crop to a friend. In the South, the stalks have long been boiled into a syrup for a faintly earthy alternative to cane sugar, then stirred into baked beans and barbecue sauce, or drizzled over biscuits and pancakes. That legacy still surfaces on Southern and Afro-diasporic menus, as in sorghum butter: malted and served with warm coco bread at Dōgon, the Afro-Caribbean restaurant in Washington, D.C., and whipped for spreading onto Gruyère cornbread at Latuli, the Gulf Coast restaurant in Houston. The grain itself is now gaining ground on menus and in packaged goods, prized for its antioxidants, high levels of protein and fiber and for how it cooks whole, mills into flour and pops for textural delight. At Honeysuckle in Philadelphia, which homes in on African diaspora cuisine, puffed sorghum is sprinkled over a slow-braised sweet potato glazed with barbecue sauce and folded into a salad of orange, dates and caraway. At vegetable-centric Oberon, the soon-to-open restaurant in New York City’s New Museum, it’s popped, caramelized and pressed onto the sides of a pistachio-saffron ice cream sandwich on challah cinnamon toast. “It’s like baby popcorn, and popcorn to me is the best snack, so anything that’s a variation on that is exciting,” says Julia Sherman, Oberon’s chef. But sorghum’s most useful turn yet might be as a wheat substitute, given its slightly nutty flavor and its rich protein content, which mimics gluten. Last week, the baker Talia Tutak launched a gluten-free bagel at her Gowanus, Brooklyn, bakery, Sixteen Mill, made mostly of whole-grain sorghum flour.
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Turning Shaker Drawings Into Table Linens
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| The Los Angeles-based company Block Shop has adapted the Shaker painter Hannah Cohoon’s 1854 “Tree of Life” work into an art print (left) and a tablecloth in chartreuse (right). Max Kütz |
In 1790, the Hancock Shaker Village was established in the Berkshires, a region of western Massachusetts. Along with communal living and egalitarian ideals, the community was built on a devotion to craft, evidenced in part by the members’ “gift drawings.” Intricate and brightly colored, the watercolor-and-ink illustrations were based on visions that the artists, mostly women, received from the spiritual realm. The drawings have more recently inspired a collection of prints and linens by Block Shop, the Los Angeles-based textile studio founded by the sisters Hopie Stockman Hill and Lily Stockman. Block Shop collaborated with the Hancock Shaker Village living history museum, pulling from its archive of gift drawings and translating their dense, celestial ornamentation into hand-block-printed patterns that adorn tablecloths and napkins. A reinterpretation of the Shaker painter Hannah Cohoon’s “Tree of Life” (1854), with branches bearing red and green fruits, is printed on chartreuse, cobalt and cream tablecloths, their borders dotted with vivid red blooms. “The Shakers had a joyful approach to communal work, and block printing is also very communal, handmade work,” Stockman Hill says. “There’s a synthesis of utility, craftsmanship and beauty.” From $20 for a napkin, blockshoptextiles.com.
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Jelly Snacks That Might Ease Your Hangover
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| From left: Upside jelly sticks, $33 for box of 10, enjoyupside.com; Jelly IV’s post-alcohol recovery, $45 for box of 15, jellyiv.com; Day-Guard’s vitamin jelly stick, $29 for box of 10, dayguard.com; and Condition Stick, $25 for box of 10, conditionstick.com. Courtesy of the brands |
The best addition to your next big party might be a small tube of jelly. Over the past few years, anti-hangover jelly sticks — which are fruit-flavored and filled with herbs, electrolytes and vitamins that the brands say may ease nausea, reduce inflammation and support liver health — have become a common predrink ritual in Korea, popularized through companies like Condition, which launched its version in 2022. More recently, several new U.S.- and Canada-based brands have begun adopting the idea: Day-Guard, launched last year, features Asian pear juice. Its predecessor Upside includes cinnamon and ginger, while Jelly IV adds in antioxidant-rich artichoke and barley grass extracts. All tout the key ingredient Hovenia dulcis, a plant that some studies suggest can speed up alcohol metabolism — and all are available in value packs, making them, at least, an easy treat to share among friends when venturing on a night out.
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Faye Toogood’s New Furniture Draws Inspiration From Fossils and Duffel Bags
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| A new furniture series from the British artist and designer Faye Toogood includes the Soft Slump armchair, Roll night stand and console and Bone dining set. Courtesy of Faye Toogood Studio |
While the British artist and designer Faye Toogood has worked across a range of mediums, nearly all of her projects begin in miniature, as hand-held maquettes. “I always start small,” she says. She often sketches ideas in clay, cardboard, wire and tape (and sometimes less common materials, like butter and toast), which evolve as they’re scaled up to their final forms. Earlier this year, Toogood closed down the workwear-inspired clothing line she started with her sister in 2013 to reorient her creative focus toward the medium for which she’s perhaps best known: This month, her studio introduces Bone, Roll, Slump, a new collection of furniture informed by her sculptural model-making, as well as the library of found objects (such as twigs, pebbles and fossils) she’s been collecting from the English countryside since her childhood. Bone, a dining set of upholstered chairs and a solid oak table, and Roll, a group of night stands and consoles carved from solid timber, evoke monumental stone structures and stout tree stumps, though they’re precisely machined and hand-finished. Soft Slump, a plush, low-slung armchair with draped and gathered upholstery, was inspired by the scrunch of a drawstring duffel bag. Toogood hopes that playful informality results in “something that feels visually comfortable, as well as actually being comfortable to sit in.” From $4,620, fayetoogood.com.
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In Notting Hill, Fashionable Sisters Host a Cambodian Feast
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| Sandra Mickiewicz |
On a balmy May evening in West London, Val Margulies and Vanda Heng Vong, the French Cambodian sisters behind the Notting Hill boutique Aimé, gathered a group of friends and collaborators for an outdoor feast.
They were keen to introduce their guests to Cambodian food, the sort they enjoyed during their childhood in Paris, where their father ran a Cambodian restaurant and their house was full of extended family. To do so, they enlisted the chef Tom Geoffrey, the founder of Barang, a Cambodian-inflected restaurant that’s currently above a pub in Borough Market and will move to a Soho location next month. Dishes — such as tamarind scallops with pig’s ear crackling, spicy pork mince on toast and fermented lemongrass and galangal sausage — were served on Astier de Villatte plates placed on Cambodian mats woven from dried water hyacinth. Click here to read the full story and follow us on Instagram.
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