Cucumber Agua Fresca
The result is something more interesting and more thirst-quenching than juice. An agua fresca is calibrated to hydrate as much as to please.
Your Skin in Summer — A Science-Based Guide to Sun, Heat, and Skin Health
Lightweight moisturizers or serums with humectants (hyaluronic acid, glycerin) applied to damp skin maintain hydration without the occlusive heaviness appropriate to winter.
The Summer Porch — Composing an Outdoor Room That Works
The porch, the terrace, the balcony, the garden corner with two chairs and a small table — June is the moment when it should become a room in the full sense of the word.
How to Deadhead, Stake, and Keep Summer Blooms Going
By removing spent blooms before seed sets, you interrupt this cycle and signal the plant to continue making flowers.
Grilled Stone Fruit Salad with White Bean Cream
Light is the most powerful zeitgeber — the German word, now standard in chronobiology, for an environmental signal that synchronizes the internal clock.