Hi, it's Alexa Weibel from New York Times Cooking.
We've got tons of easy weeknight recipes, and today I'm making my five-ingredient creamy miso pasta.
You just take your starchy pasta water, whisk it together with a little bit of miso and butter until it's creamy.
Add your noodles and a little bit of cheese.
Hmm.
It's like a grown-up box of mac and cheese that feels like a restaurant-quality dish.
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From the New York Times, I'm Anna Martin.
This is Modern Love.
As you probably know, our show is inspired by the Modern Love column, where it's all about the personal essay.
But today, we're talking about how poetry can also help us express our messiest feelings.
My guest today is America's official poet, our poet laureate, Ada Limone.
During her time in the job, which comes to an end this month,
Limone has shown us poems aren't just words we read in a quiet room somewhere.
One of her big projects was having poems installed on picnic tables in several national parks.
So this summer, you could be eating a sandwich on the shores of Cape Cod, enjoying a poem by Mary Oliver.