A sweet-tart shrub, the ideal iced chai, and a few spring cakes

Recommendations for the heat of spring.

Hello my beautiful newsletter subscribers. I apologize for the strange cadence of posts this month—I’ve been in New Orleans, then Miami for a wedding, and I am still figuring out how to make this thing both enjoyable for me and (maybe, hopefully) enjoyable for you too. Thank you, as always, for choosing a paid subscription! I’ll have a longer piece for …