Flowers, chocolates, and expensive dinners. Last year, I bought so many of these for Valentine’s Day that I have been living off them ever since. Every morning, I braid my hair with a new set of flowers and sigh as I dig into my daily breakfast of chocolate and leftovers. But, thank God, the day when I can give away my extra chocolates and flowers has come again! Oh, you know what else I have a lot of? Valentine’s Day cartoons! Here are some of the finest; I hope you’ll enjoy them with a nice handful of chocolate and some flowers in your hair, just like I do.
Colin Stokes is a former member of The New Yorker’s editorial staff.
Goings On
What we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week, online, in N.Y.C., and beyond. Paid subscribers also receive book picks.
The Food Scene
The Return, Again, of the Power Lunch
Four Twenty Five, a luxe new dining room from the mega-restaurateur Jean-Georges Vongerichten, takes square aim at the expense-account crowd.
By Helen Rosner
Page-Turner
Fifteen Essential Cookbooks
The kitchen guides that New Yorker writers and editors can’t do without.
By The New Yorker
Annals of Gastronomy
Are We Living Through a Bagel Renaissance?
A new wave of shops has made its mark across the country—and shaken New York’s bagel scene out of complacency.
By Hannah Goldfield
Poems
“Radishes”
“Did something in your cultivation change, / or does sensation wane with age?”
By Ange Mlinko