Honored to have our home featured in @1stdibs! Thank you to @tony1stdibs and his wonderful team for making this all happen. “Andy Baraghani’s just-published The Cook You Want to Be: Everyday Recipes to Impress has an especially empowering title: You, too, reader, can master the making of a meal — with the author’s help. The recipes are copious and excellent. I made two of them: pork chops with toasted garlic and spicy capers and fennel salad with spicy green olives and crushed pistachios. It’s Baraghani’s first book, but the veteran cook and writer excels at offering overall strategies (“When in doubt, reach for salt or acids,” “Lose the gadgets”) and ideas for zesty sauces with multiple applications. Look more closely at the lush photographs, and you’ll see that the tables holding the food — including the plates, glasses and linens — are carefully chosen and arranged, too. Baraghani is a design nerd who has been quietly educating himself about beautiful objects and how they can be enjoyed....” Thank you to @looslips for the generous words, and @matthewwilliamsphotographer for the gorgeous photos. A special thank you to the unofficial art director on set and the set of eyes I trust most @mrpollock.