It smelled like something I remembered. but couldn’t name. The orange hit the pot first—zest and juice, sharp and sweet—and then came the rest. Cinnamon. …

Recipes Inspired by Martha Stewart, Cooked in Real Life

It smelled like something I remembered. but couldn’t name. The orange hit the pot first—zest and juice, sharp and sweet—and then came the rest. Cinnamon. …

It was overcast but hot. The kind of heat that doesn’t glow—it presses. My neck was sticky from the walk back from the post office, …