New York City has a seaside village: eating and drinking in Red Hook, Brooklyn The best time to visit Red Hook is the autumn and winter — when it gets quiet, but everything’s open

Hiii I wrote a guide to my home and my favorite place in New York, where plastic bags float in the wind and cherry factory juice bleeds onto the sidewalk and you can throw all your biggest worries into the sea www.ft.com/content/cb2d...

Chef Samin Nosrat: ‘So much of cooking is about being present’ The ‘Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat’ author on food, memory and heritage — and why she tries to make something every day

Samin Nosrat's 2017 book 'Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat' could be the most influential book on cooking in the 21st century, says Lilah Raptopoulos. Join them for Lunch with the FT in Manhattan (with sparklers) on.ft.com/46Vpt6V

Thank you <3

Thank you so much! It was such a delight to write.

I'll support the New York and Miami guides, and help expand to more US cities. If there’s something you’d love to write about a great US city, email me. If you work in hospitality in a great US city, email me! And if there’s a guide you wish someone would write: lilahrap@ft.com

Also, cities are the absolute best. There’s so much in them: art, lore, accents, nature, food you have to try in very specific ways, site-specific weirdos. They're my favorite receptacles of culture.
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I love Globetrotter. In a sea of scroll bait they publish researched, cultured, real ~guides~, in the truest sense. The editors Rebecca & Niki have also built a special haven where writers can catch the local spirit of a place. Writing for them about NYC over the years has been a total joy.
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Very excited to join the Globetrotter team at @financialtimes.com as US editor of Globetrotter, to help expand our culture and travel guides across American cities. It's been an honor to host FT Weekend's culture podcast for five years. This new job is a real thrill.
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This is lovely. Thanks so much, Taylor

Our last episode of Life and Art from FT Weekend comes out tomorrow. <3

The cuisine of the Assyrians - a ppl with no country but millennia of culture and history. This episode is what
@financialtimes.com excels at - giving the marginal some meaningful visibility. This Weekend’s “Places of Worship” is equally delightful and fulfilling and including #Armenian monastery

Do you
- live in NY?
- work in hospitality?
- write well?

Please get in touch! harriet.fitchlittle at ft.com

This episode 🥹

🎧 link.chtbl.com/lifeandart

‘He said the biggest downside our brains lose by speeding up videos is the pauses in speech. The edited-out pauses are actually necessary to do the deep thinking that remembering and understanding what you watch requires, Hasson said: “The thinking is done in the gap between the words.“‘

Love this piece. "If hundreds of millions of normal music listeners have decided to trade audio quality for convenience and variety, then fair enough. But what disconcerted me is that I didn’t know that’s what I’d done. I had simply forgotten how much better music used to sound."

Who knew? The staff - at every level - at the Metropolitan Museum had their own art show!

Great piece by Lilah 👇🏻

Gregor!!!!

As you may have heard on the podcast, Life and Art is ending in early January. It’s been the absolute honor of my career to host that show.

If you want to keep following my work, stay in touch here or on IG @lilahrap. More news soon.

My real thank you is here: www.instagram.com/p/DCuHswrPc-...

The Met’s secret employee art show is no longer secret Behind the scenes at the museum’s biggest-ever showcase of its staff art

This is the best thing on right now in New York.

Go to the Met. Nearly 700 employees - guards, cleaners, curators, conservators - have their work on view in a massive exhibit.

It's likely the biggest collection of living artists' work in a major museum in the country on.ft.com/4ewTl9R

Ok. Hi. Creating an account here is giving me a 2004 buzz, I hope this place is fun.