A Perfect Corn on the Cob of Links & Recs

One link/rec for every kernel on the cob

It doesn’t get dark here in June until around 10 pm, and last night I had a truly perfect corn on the cob right around that hour as part of one of your dinners where you start talking and keep talking and oh we have to take the dogs on a little walk and keep talking and pour another glass of wine and whoops it’s 9 pm, we should probably turn on the grill? One of those nights. Which meant I was starving when the corn was ready and debating whether or not I was going to go through the rigamarole of adding butter but then I took my first bite and THE CORN WAS SO GOOD IT DIDN’T NEED ANYTHING. No butter, no salt, just a perfectly grilled ear of corn at twilight.

You might not like corn, but I’m still sending you that moment of satisfaction. And a full cob (

of recs & links, which is one of many benefits of becoming a paid subscriber (for whatever reason getting access to these is often the thing that pushes people who’ve been meaning to subscribe to actually do it; if that’s you today, welcome!)

But first, we had a particularly Garden Study interview this week:

Gardening To Get To Know a Very Specific Piece of Land

And

The Culture Study Podcast

took on the enduring fascination with royals + colonial hangovers + what it would actually take for Canada to leave the commonwealth:

Royals Gossip and Colonial Hangovers

And it was a particularly good week for threads — here’s a massive one on clothes maintenance/repair, and here’s yesterday’s on “Life Skills,” broadly defined:

Now on to Links and Recs (as always, there are no affiliate links or sponsored content — this is just stuff I actually like and have read):