Growing up in Ukraine, Anna Voloshyna spent a lot of time around food. She remembers watching her mother work her magic in the kitchen, and sitting down to an abundant table with friends and family over heaping platters and glasses of chilled vodka. Anna soon discovered that she had a talent for cooking herself and, when she moved to San Francisco, she started hosting dinners of her own. This fall, Anna will share her stories and recipes with cooks worldwide, in Budmo!, an inviting cookbook filled with recipes for Ukrainian dishes bursting with bright flavors. We sat down with Anna to talk about picking sweet cherries, khachapuri madness, and the lessons she hopes readers will take from Budmo! into their own kitchens and lives.

Years ago, Shellie Pomeroy started using foraged foliage, berries, nuts, and flowers to imbue natural fabrics with brilliant colors. In 2014, Shellie founded Silk & Willow, a company through which she creates unforgettable tablescapes for major life events. This summer, Shellie shares her wisdom with readers in Natural Tables, a sourcebook full of ideas and inspiration for creating beautiful tablescapes of your very own. We sat down with Shellie to talk about where she finds inspiration, how she fell in love with natural color, and why making pom-poms is the perfect project to do with kids.

Have you ever looked at someone’s face and wished that, somehow, you could tell what they were thinking? Wondered whether you could, somehow, tell whether they were lying? It turns out, you can. Decades ago, Paul Ekman decided to dedicate himself to a mystery that was waiting in plain sight — the face. Over many years and studies, Dr. Ekman co-discovered something extraordinary: micro-expressions, lightning-fast facial expressions revealing subjects’ true feelings — even when they tried their best to hide them. We sat down with Dr. Ekman to talk with him about why the face is like Mount Everest, how he met the Dalai Lama, and what it means to live a good life.

Are you tired of looking at the same four walls? So, too, do Roxy Prima and Phoebe Cornog, the creative forces behind Pandr Design Co.. Through their business, Phoebe and Roxy have brought color and life to walls all over the world, from Pennsylvania to Puerto Rico, Texas to Tasmania. And this past fall, the pair released Wonder Walls, a book full of tips and tricks for creating vibrant murals of your very own. Here’s a step-by-step guide to one of our favorite projects from the book.

Love lost, love found. Is there any emotion that we dream, write, read, think, and sing about more often, more fervently than love? Love appears in so many forms in our lives. It can take the shape of desire and longing; heartbreak and loss; passion and partnership.

For as long as there has been poetry, poets have been writing about this most transcendent emotion. We love these pieces so much, we partnered with Jessica Strand to collect 50 incredible love poems into a beautifully illustrated anthology, Love Found. In honor of Valentine’s Day, we would like to share three of our favorites with you: poems that speak to love as contentment, love as burning passion, and love as coming home. Happy Valentine’s Day. 

With the Year of the Tiger just around the corner, our minds are on Lunar New Year. In Japanese culture, mochi plays a starring role in the holiday. Mochi is seen as an omen of good fortune, so making mochi at the beginning of the year represents bringing good luck into the months ahead. This Lunar New Year, treat yourself to a little mochi magic in your very own kitchen, with Kaori Becker’s recipe for chocolate mochi and chocolate truffle filling.

Lorene Edwards Forkner is something of a constant gardener: She has run a nursery, designed gardens, and written numerous gardening books. In 2018, Lorene embarked on a 100-day project; each day, she would find something beautiful in her garden and render its colors in watercolor. That project became a beautiful book, Color In and Out of the Garden. In anticipation of its arrival, we sat down with Lorene to talk about fleeting moments of beauty, the magic of periwinkle-blue, and what it means to live a considered life. 

Artist Emma Block finds inspiration everywhere: in building facades, in people she passes on the street, in the hues of fall foliage. We were lucky to work with Emma as she wrote The Joy of Watercolor, an inviting how-to guide. Since then, Emma has written Get Started with Gouache and Slow Travel Journal. Her book Watercolor Life comes out spring 2022. We sat down with Emma to talk about the rolling hills of Tuscany, the magic of a great making-cupboard, and the simple (and brilliant!) strategy she deploys to slow down while traveling.

At the first signs of fall, we’re bursting with anticipation: of glowing leaves, seasonal celebrations, and, above all, of fall food. After all, this is the best time of year to find fresh apples and mushrooms, green chiles and squash, and we can’t wait to savor their flavors in inspired dishes sweet and savory. Here are five of our favorite fall recipes, from rich apple cider donuts to comforting Irish Coffee.