Monica Kass Rogers

SILKY SOFT WITH AN EDGY VIBE

Riffling through a rack of T-shirts bearing their bright designs, Alyse Gamson and Marla Price laugh and tease with the ease of longtime friendship. The two first met at a mutual friend’s bachelorette party in 2008 and quickly bonded over a shared love for creativity and adventure. That bond buoyed the women through child-raising years

HOW THEIR GARDENS GROW

Last summer, Sarah Rochel was working in her Lake Bluff garden with 3-year-old son Rafael and was amazed by everything he plucked to eat. “Peas, kale, mint, basil, cucumber, and tons of green beans,” says Rochel, “I couldn’t believe it!” A few days later, walking through the produce aisle at the grocery store, Rafael asked

RASPBERRY BLACKBERRY LATTICE-CRUST PIE

My husband, Todd, loves tart berries. Blackberries and raspberries picked in the wild are his favorite and store-bought the rest of the year. On yogurt, cereal, or simply by the handful, the berries brighten his every day. But with Todd traveling and a berry surplus on my hands, I decided to make this pie for

CLASSIC BLANCMANGE WITH RASPBERRY SAUCE

Do you recall the comedy sketch from Monty Python’s Flying Circus where giant tennis-playing blancmange puddings swallowed opponents at Wimbledon? That zany episode not only made me a Python fan but also stirred my culinary curiosity— just what was a blancmange? A bit of research yielded this definition: blancmange is simply a white pudding made

EMPOWERING CHANGE

When National Geographic photographer Ami Vitale set off to document the transport of four of the world’s last known surviving northern white rhinos from a zoo in Czechia to a conservancy in Kenya, the experience altered the trajectory of her life’s work. The hope was that giving the animals room to roam in Kenya’s open

REMISOFF RENAISSANCE

The eight oil-on-canvas panels and four frescos decorating the rotunda of the Lake Forest Library are all that is left of artist Nicolai Remisoff ’s fascinating legacy in the Chicago area. Recently restored after water damage from leaks in the now-repaired library dome, Remisoff ’s Poets and Writers of Antiquity paintings are, “as close to

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