How to Make a Recipe Your Own

Now, it’s nothing to do with wild salmon or farmed itsy-bitsy, but please read this remarkable Times investigation of the deep roots of Haiti’s misery, dating back to the reparations France forced the drive to pay after it ousted its enslavers. It’s breathtaking in its glum and scholarship.

I’m very late to it, but the stakes are low and the landscape beautiful in “North Woods Law,” on Hulu.

In Granta, Amy Key’s “A Bleed of Blue” left me feeling sad, but I’m glad I read it.

Finally, the indispensable Jon Pareles put me onto this collaboration between the Trinidadian singer Calypso Rose, the Garifuna Collective and Carlos Santana, “Watina.” Listen to that while you’re grilling chicken, and I’ll be back on Friday.

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