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the GOOD stu 1931 MAY contents FASHION + BEAUTY Veggies go fresh 11 Then Canned asparagus starred GH BEAUTY AWARDS in many Good Housekeeping recipes, a testament to its popularity YOUR HOME throughout the 20th century. Now Fresh asparagus is available 29 nearly year-round in grocery stores, offering a firmer texture DOROTHY DRAPER’S and more vibrant flavor than its TIMELESS STYLE shelf-stable counterpart. 32 IN SEASON THEN AND WOW Asparagus Timeless tricks to Our Test Kitchen revisited these classic GH recipes starring the earthy, make over any room sweet stalks. Here are some time-honored ways to enjoy them: 49 ROASTED CREAMY ASPARAGUS WITH SHOW & SELL ASPARAGUS MUSHROOMS & SOUR CREAM SAUCE Increase your home’s value WITH FRENCH ASPARAGUS & MELBA CRUMBS LIFE + HEALTH VINAIGRETTE Heat 1 Tbsp olive oil in large Bring large pot of water to skillet on medium-high. Add a boil, then add 2 tsp kosher 59 Heat oven to 425°F. On 8 oz mushrooms (sliced), salt. Add 11⁄2 lbs medium rimmed baking sheet, toss season with a pinch each of asparagus (trimmed) and MAKING WAVES 1 lb asparagus (trimmed) kosher salt and pepper and cook until bright green with 1 Tbsp olive oil and cook, tossing occasionally, and just tender, 3 to 4 min.; A mother and a daughter 1⁄4 tsp each kosher salt and until golden brown and ten- immediately transfer to bowl reconnect in the water pepper. Roast, shaking der, 4 to 5 min.; transfer to of ice water to cool, then sheet once, until asparagus plate. Wipe out skillet. Add drain. Pat dry and transfer 65 is lightly charred and just 2 Tbsp olive oil and 1⁄4 cup to plates or platter. In small tender, 10 to 12 min. Mean- water and bring to a boil. saucepan, combine THE GENDER PAIN GAP while, in bowl, combine Add 1 lb asparagus (trimmed 1⁄2 cup sour cream, 2 Tbsp 1⁄2 cup creamy French and cut on a bias into mayonnaise, 1 Tbsp fresh 70 dressing with 1⁄8 sweet 2-in.-long pieces) and 1⁄2 tsp lemon juice, 1⁄4 tsp each onion, 1⁄2 small sweet pickle salt and cook, covered, salt and pepper and a pinch INSIDE THE and 1 Tbsp each parsley and shaking skillet often, until of freshly grated nutmeg GH NUTRITION LAB capers (all finely chopped). bright green and just barely and cook on medium-low Let sit while asparagus is tender, 4 min. Uncover, add until heated through. 73 roasting. Divide asparagus 1⁄2 cup light cream and Spoon over asparagus and among plates and spoon 2 scallions (thinly sliced) and top with 2 pieces Melba STATE OF THE 2 Tbsp dressing over each cook 1 min. Stir in mushrooms toast (crumbled). AMERICAN HOME 2022 serving. Serve with remain- and mix to combine. ing dressing if desired. 80 INSIDE THE GH HOME IMPROVEMENT LAB 82 INSIDE THE GH TEXTILES LAB 87 SEAL SPOTLIGHT Sweet and savory snacks Asparagus: Getty Images. 2 G H MAY 2022
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the COOK + SAVOR GOOD 92 stu FEAST OF FAVORITES 1930 103 THEN & NOW: MAY contents FROM SCRATCH: RANCH How We 106 Pick Books RETRO WEEKNIGHTS Since Good Housekeeping’s earliest days, Filling Bookshelves books editors have dedicated themselves 110 to searching out the best reads from the Then Good Housekeeping pub- embarrassment of riches getting published lished excerpts of novels, short sto- FIVE-INGREDIENT every month. After finding an April 1930 essay ries and even poetry in its pages in DINNER from Emily Newell Blair, GH’s books editor addition to book recommendations. at the time, I realized that my modern-day Now The Good Housekeeping 112 process isn’t much different from hers. Every Book Club launched in 2021 to invite season I meet with publicists to hear their readers into the conversation about INSIDE THE new lists, pore over publishers’ catalogs to our favorite feel-good reads. GH KITCHEN LAB earmark what may become new favorites for our audience and read hundreds of upcoming publishers. And these, as every one knows, FAMILY ROOM releases to find the diamonds in the rough cannot be accepted on faith. and pass them along to our readers. 120 Some months, therefore, I read a dozen Of course, many publicist meetings take books without finding one that seems to THE MAGIC OF place virtually these days, and I read a lot me worthy of a place in my articles. But time CHILDREN’S GARDENS of books on my e-reader instead of calling is inexorable. The article must be written to get hard copies of galleys or early bound by a certain date. And so I hurry on, trying 122 manuscripts, though nothing beats the another and another. Some are discarded thrill of holding a hotly anticipated book immediately on reading; under no circum- BEST OF THE TEST in my hands sooner than almost anyone stances will they do. Others are possible. else (except passing it along to a fellow They would do in lieu of a better [one], which Car seats bookworm!). Read on to see how Newell I hope against hope I may find. Usually I do, Blair described her hopes and fears, including but occasionally I am forced to make my list 125 the very same anxieties I have about missing with the uncomfortable feeling that there, something great. —Lizz Schumer in that pile of the not-yet-read, may be the BORN TO MOVE very book I seek. My objective is to find at least 12 books which Creative ways to I can recommend for one reason or another Often I am in luck. Book after book is just get your pet moving to 12 different kinds of persons with differing what I want. Then I wish to include them all, tastes and interests. Unfortunately, my fore- and the exigencies of space demand that I IN EVERY ISSUE bears have cursed me with a New England make a choice. There will be a splendid book conscience. So I can never be satisfied for one kind of person and none for another. 128 until I am assured that I have found the best books available for this purpose. This means From “Hunting the Best Books Is a GH SEAL STAR that my search is never ending, for the num- Year-Round Sport for Emily Newell OF THE MONTH ber of books that are sent to me is great. I Blair,” April 1930 have nothing to guide me except the “blurbs” Berkley Jensen on their jackets and the notices sent by the Ultra Soft Bath Tissue Retro is Back! GooGdoHoGooduosHdeHkooeuuesspeeinkkegeeMpeipnaggi nazgine March 1927 August 2001 1930: Good Housekeeping archives/February 1915. Cover: Photographed by Mike Garten. Food styling by Christine Albano. Prop styling by Alex Mata. Flower in title: Emily Kate Roemer. GH Much has happened in Book since the past 137 YEARS (and beyond!). club 1885 Find fun facts throughout the issue. Picks 4 G H MAY 2022 Scan here for more great reads!
® ® BRAND DOG FOOD New Spring Reads Purina trademarks are owned by Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. FEEL-GOOD BOOK CLUB PICK 1885: Good Housekeeping archives/June 1912. 1885: Harold M. Lambert/Lambert/Getty Images. 1886: Getty Images. I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston Take a trip back to high school with this LGBTQ+ rom-com that’s full of teenage hijinks, mystery and the power of friendship. Chloe Green has spent her whole tenure at Willow- grove Christian Academy competing for valedictorian with the principal’s perfect daughter, Shara Wheeler. But when Shara kisses Chloe and then disappears on prom night, she leaves only a string of cryptic clues. Chloe forms an unlikely alliance with Rory, Shara’s misfit neighbor, and Smith, her quarterback boyfriend, to suss out where Shara has gone, ending with a dramatic finish no one will see coming. It’s a rollicking good time for readers of any age. $20 1885 1885 EXPLORE OFFERS AT DOGCHOW.COM/OFFERS Happy birthday to us! The first issue of Good Housekeeping is published.
the ® ® GOOD BRAND DOG FOOD stu NEW! MOVING SUSPENSE When We Fell Apart by Soon Wiley Min can’t believe his Korean girlfriend, Yu-jin, died by suicide right before graduation. As he embarks on a quest to uncover the truth, he learns more about Yu-jin’s life as the daughter of a high-ranking government official, the actual nature of her bond with her roommate So-ra and his own biracial identity. This compelling, propulsive novel is as complex as the characters it follows. $27 HISTORICAL FICTION Trust by Hernan Diaz Money, power, privilege and what wealth can conceal are at the center of this book-within-a-book. It follows the story of Wall Street tycoon Benjamin Rask and his wife, Helen, through a popular tell-all and then through other versions that emerge and begin to call into question what society—and the reader — really knows about the enigmatic couple. It’s a literary tour de force and a delicious puzzle to read. $28 SPECULATIVE FICTION End of the World House by Adrienne Celt High school friends Bertie and Kate embark on one last trip to Paris before Kate moves away (and the world ends). But when they end up alone in the Louvre, they get stuck in a time loop and ultimately separated. As Bertie fights to find her friend, she’s got to face her future and her past and see how much control she really has over her life. The Apocalypse has never been this much fun. $28 1885 1886 Lady Liberty, a gift Coca-Cola is invented by a of friendship from pharmacist named John S. France, arrives Pemberton in Atlanta, where in New York Harbor. the first glasses sell for 5¢. 7 G H MAY 2022
2016 All past Good Housekeeping covers: Good Housekeeping archives. Francisco: Ari Michelson. 1886: J Muckle. 1887: Smith Archive/Alamy Stock Photo. 2016: Michael Simon/startraksphoto.com. First Ladies! Then Here I am at an event celebrating women with two of my favorites! Meet GH’s ground- breakers: Ellen Levine (left), our first female editor in chief, and Patricia Haegele (center), the first woman to be named publisher. Now I still get to work every day with Pat, who continues to lead GH’s successes as well as the business teams at Oprah Daily, Delish, Woman’s Day, Country Living, Prevention, The Pioneer Woman Magazine, Food Network Magazine and HGTV Magazine. 1886 1887 1888 The Avon Company is founded, Susanna Madora Salter Years before the Band-Aid giving women a chance to takes office as the mayor is invented (1920), Johnson gain financial independence of Argonia, KS — the first & Johnson creates the first by selling beauty products woman ever to hold the commercial First Aid Kits, door-to-door. position in the U.S. designed to help railroad workers.
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Use a chest as a coffee table. Wood tables aren’t the only surfaces for displaying things like books and decor. A beautiful vintage trunk, bench or ottoman can serve the same purpose. 2005 FOR SIMILAR: PYRAMID 100-LB ESPRESSO COMPOSITE WOOD STORAGE TRUNK BY BOSTON Organic Patterns Tria Giovan. Inset: Good Housekeeping archives/August 2005/Johansen Krause. LOFT FURNISHINGS, $150, LOWES.COM; SUSILA OTTOMAN, $268, ANTHROPOLOGIE.COM; PARI Then Just 17 years ago, RATTAN CHAIR, $148, ANTHROPOLOGIE.COM; ANTIQUE STRIPED PRINTED PILLOW COVER, a floral love seat and a $50, POTTERYBARN.COM; BAMBOO PENDANT LIGHT FROM LANNA PASSA, FROM $45, ETSY complementary rug were the .COM; BEACHWOOD NATURAL DRIFTWOOD BRANCH TABLE LAMP, $230, LAMPSPLUS.COM. keys to a chic design scheme. Now Layering floral patterns remains a go-to trick for design pros and enthusiasts alike. However, there’s also room to practice restraint by keeping the mix of prints to smaller pieces such as cushions and pillows. 4 4 G H MAY 2022
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