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From Sweden to England, Italy to Portugal, Spain to river cruises, explore the best Europe has to offer while picking up your new Volvo.

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We know you must be itching to get started planning not only your Volvo Experience but also any other travel plans surrounding the trip. Try to hold off on making any firm travel plans until your Initial Consultation. As a Volvo VIP, you have access to exclusive offers, savings, and amenities on everything from River Cruises and Self Drive Trips to Private Yachts and Arctic Expeditions.

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This grand tour of Scandinavia begins in Oslo, ends in Copenhagen, and ventures through the gorgeous natural wonders of Sweden. The diamond of this experience is the Eriksberg Lodge!

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Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser is set to make its inaugural trip to orbit to deliver supplies to the International Space Station

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With its perpetually upturned pectoral fins, and blunt nose, the Dream Chaser looks more like a killer whale than a spacecraft. But unlike an orca, the Dream Chaser will soon be going to orbit: it’s set to take food and supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) later this year when it travels to space for the first time.

The Dream Chaser’s trip to space will make it the latest commercial vehicle to visit the ISS as part of NASA’s “commercial resupply services” program. But leaders at Sierra Space, the company that built this finned craft, have visions that go beyond such deliveries: they hope that someday Dream Chaser will carry people to space and that it can act as a kind of ready-made space program for countries that don’t want to or don’t have the resources to reinvent these particular wheels. Beyond that, Sierra Space officials think Dream Chaser could deliver supplies or people to various places on Earth for the Department of Defense by going from point to point around the world at a faster clip than a typical plane.

But before any of that happens, Dream Chaser must make its maiden voyage, set for sometime later this year.

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NASA’s Space Shuttle was the original grocery deliverer and taxi service for the space station. As the shuttle retired in 2011, “we had to go start taking a look at a couple of avenues to support the space station,” says Phil Dempsey, ISS Transportation Integration Office manager. NASA turned to private corporations .

If companies could build space deliverers, NASA could simply buy their services instead of having to build and maintain its own vehicles. NASA’s first phase of contracts went to SpaceX and Orbital ATK (now Northrop Grumman). In the second phase, Sierra Space became the third company to win a contract. Sometime this year the Dream Chaser will be loaded onto a United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur rocket at Cape Canaveral, Fla., whose runway it will land on upon return.

Northrop’s cargo craft is called Cygnus, and it looks like a tin can that grew aerodynamically ineffective wings. It goes up but does not come down, “destructively reentering” the atmosphere—to use NASA’s violent euphemism for the craft burning up as it flies through the air—which lets it dispose of the station’s trash after it leaves. SpaceX’s solution is the Dragon capsule, which bears more resemblance to the classic Apollo spacecraft of old—with a modern, minimalist twist—and does return safely to Earth in a splashdown, after which it is ready to be reused. The journeys of these two craft weren’t always smooth sailing. “Both of the initial providers had early launch failures,” Dempsey says. Perhaps Dream Chaser will become a dream “catcher,” with fewer difficulties.

Dream Chaser is a “lifting-body” spacecraft: it launches on a rocket but can land like an airplane on a runway, with its wide belly providing the lift that wings would on a conventional aircraft. It was initially intended for human occupants; the group had applied to take astronauts up to the ISS but didn’t win the contract. So when Sierra saw the option to send cargo, it decided to shoot for that star instead.

The company began modifying its people-pleasing design by taking out things that only humans need—such as windows and an abort system. It added the ability to carry up to 12,000 pounds of cargo total, with the addition of an attached capsule, and dispose of stuff on the way back down to Earth. Because Dream Chaser would ride to space in the five-meter fairing, or nose cone, of a rocket, the company redesigned the wings to fold up and be deployed in preparation for landing only once out of that claustrophobic space.

Dream Chaser is, in other words, a little less straightforward than Cygnus and Dragon. And because it lands on a runway, it can bring research home and hand off to scientists quickly—just half an hour after touchdown. During that touchdown, it will experience just 1.5 g ’s of acceleration, providing a softer landing than a typical splashdown.

Dream Chaser can also dump its cargo capsule to burn up in the atmosphere on the way back down, letting it and whatever’s inside crisp into nothingness. “It gives a mix of the capabilities that the other two providers have,” Dempsey says. That gives NASA the flexibility, he continues, to choose which cargo carrier is best suited to a particular mission. For instance, the agency might use Dragon for critical cargo that needs to come back to the planet, Cygnus to get a huge amount of cargo up and Dream Chaser for time-sensitive research.

Each Dream Chaser is designed to fly 15 times before needing to be retired, so between the model that’s complete—named Tenacity—and another on the production floor, 30 future missions are possible. The company is also committed to building a crewed version of the space plane and eventually taking astronauts up, says Angie Wise, Sierra Space’s chief safety officer and senior vice president of mission and quality assurance. That goal meshes with another wing of the company’s business, she adds, which is working with Blue Origin on a commercial space station called Orbital Reef. The reef dwellers will have to get there somehow .

Wise says Sierra Space is focused on making this first mission successful rather than getting overhyped about the future. But the company does have a loose plan with the United Nations, if funding is secured, to launch an uncrewed international mission. Although the details aren’t nailed down, the U.N.’s description says such a mission would carry “experiments, payloads, or satellites provided by institutions in the participating countries.” Sierra Space is also talking to other governments about potential “ free-flyer missions ,” where the plane would simply loiter in orbit. It could host microgravity experiments onboard or give small satellites a lift and then let them go.

Beyond those aims, though, Sierra Space is also looking to the Department of Defense, where it thinks Dream Chaser could be useful for things such as peering down at Earth or rush delivering supplies to troops in faraway parts of the planet. “We can land pretty much on any major commercial runway,” Wise says. That special kind of delivery involves what insiders call “point-to-point” rocket travel: shooting spacecraft from one spot on the globe to another via an arc that cuts suborbitally through space. Up there, the craft could go thousands of miles per hour, compared with an airplane’s hundreds, and then slice through the atmosphere above its intended destination.

There aren’t any operational contracts in this direction yet, but the defense sector is broadly interested in such capabilities, and Sierra Space has signed a research agreement with the U.S. Transportation Command to look into “timely global delivery of Department of Defense logistics and personnel,” according to a press release . The Air Force, in particular, has its eye on point-to-point delivery. In addition to Dream Chaser, SpaceX’s Starship and spacecraft from Blue Origin and Rocket Lab could be put to such uses.

The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), whose goal is to better and more quickly bring commercial technology under the military umbrella, recently took proposals for a program it calls Novel Responsive Space Delivery . In this program, the unit is looking for “responsive and precise point-to-point delivery of cargo to, from, and through space,” DIU said in its solicitation. That means DIU wants the service to go from Earth to orbit, from space to a specific spot on Earth and within space between satellites. In the future, the winners of such a contract might take upgrade or repair parts to an ailing satellite or even rescue people in space, should the need arise.

But DIU is also looking to a future time when the DOD might store supplies in space, as the U.S. military has at caches across Earth’s surface for many years. Then it would be able to send them where they’re needed, as they’re needed, if the usual terrestrial supply lines were in jeopardy or a disaster called for rapid response. “There are certain commodities that we can preposition in orbit. Certain commodities kind of lend themselves to being okay sitting in a space vehicle for some duration,” says Austin Baker, deputy director for DIU’s space portfolio.

Whether Dream Chaser will ever perform tasks like that is currently up in the air as it gets ready for its first launch. Right now it’s busy going through the rocket ringer, being tested to see how it holds up to conditions of launch and space itself. Sierra Space is “just checking out everything works on the ground before we ever launch it,” Wise says—to give it the best chance of coming back to the ground safely.

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Kirk Cousins' trip to visit Jon Gruden with teammates says plenty about QB's leadership

FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. – Say what you want about Kirk Cousins and his big contract , or the Achilles tendon in rehab, or the sudden threat looming with the presence of a hotshot first-round rookie.

Just don’t say the new Atlanta Falcons quarterback isn’t bold to the bone.

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Last week, Cousins led a small group of teammates for a day trip to Tampa to see Coach Chucky.

Yeah,  that  guy. Jon Gruden, who has largely been an NFL outcast since he was forced to abruptly resign as Las Vegas Raiders coach in 2021 amid a storm of scandal. Gruden was exposed when a series of racist, misogynistic, and homophobic emails from his "Monday Night Football" days were leaked – including some vulgarity directed at NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell – and the whole mess is still unresolved as the former coach pursues a lawsuit against the league and Goodell .

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Yet Cousins, the subject of an unresolved NFL investigation alleging violations of the league’s anti-tampering policy before his massive, four-year, $180 million free agent contract became official in March, thought it was a good idea to break down some film for a few hours with Gruden.

Now that took some guts. And not only because the accompanying teammates – tight end Kyle Pitts, receivers Drake London and Darnell Mooney – are all African American.

Cousins apparently had no concern about the optics or the politics. The mission was about football and bonding. And according to some of the participants, it was a blast.

"It was eye-opening," London told reporters following an OTA practice on Tuesday. "I think it broke down a barrier with all of us that was needed."

Added Mooney, "I think the trip was a nice breaking (of) the ice. We talked about some things that you normally never talk about."

The revelation about the day trip, which Cousins began organizing last month as the team began offseason training, was undoubtedly the most striking detail to surface as the team held its first media session of the offseason with veterans – and the first occasion for the 36-year-old quarterback to address the press since the Falcons stunned the NFL universe by drafting his projected successor, Michael Penix Jr. , with the eighth pick overall. It also spoke volumes about the leadership style – and potential impact – Cousins carries as he transitions to the new environment of a franchise rolling with a six-year drought since it last earned a playoff berth.

Cousins, preparing for his 13 th  NFL season, said he is heeding the advice offered by a couple of retired NFL quarterbacks who changed teams later in their careers.

"One of the things they said is that you’ve got to find that balance between leading and also understanding that you haven’t been here," Cousins said. "Keep your mouth shut and observe. And learn how things work. So, there’s a balance, right? I’m going to step in and assert myself, but I’m also going to ask questions and keep my mouth shut at times, too."

The leadership trait is being put to a test in a hurry as Cousins tries to get quickly settled and intrigue seemingly lurks around every corner for a man who embodies one of the NFL’s juiciest storylines for the coming season. Leadership position or not, he didn’t learn of the plan to draft Penix with a first-round pick until the Falcons were on the clock on draft night.

When someone asked whether Cousins, who spent the previous six seasons with the Minnesota Vikings, would have still signed with Atlanta if he knew the team would take a quarterback in the first round, he responded: "I don’t really deal in hypotheticals. We could go down that path for a long time in a lot of ways. It just doesn’t do us any good."

Good answer.

Cousins also squashed any hint of a suggestion that he won’t embrace the presence of Penix, who led the nation in passing last season while guiding Washington to the national championship game.

"The quarterback room is a working force," Cousins said. "That’s never not been the case. So, we’re all in there, a working force together, trying to help each other."

He knows. Football can be a fickle business, swinging on many factors, including injuries, merit and economics. Even with $100 million of his contract guaranteed, and even with new Falcons coach Raheem Morris shouting from the rooftop that there is no controversy because Cousins is the starter who won’t need to look over his shoulder, stuff happens. Eventually.

When Cousins broke into the NFL from Michigan State, he was Washington’s fourth-round pick – in the same class that the team chose Robert Griffin III with the second pick overall. RG3 had four injury-plagued seasons in Washington, while Cousins steadily rose.

"Competition is always a part of how this league works," Cousins said. “How football works.”

The phone call that came as the Falcons prepared to turn in the card for Penix reminded Cousins of a call he got from former Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio in 2007. Two weeks after Cousins signed to become a Spartan, Dantonio informed him that the school was signing another highly recruited quarterback: Nick Foles.

"We were in the same class," Cousins said. "Nick Foles became a Super Bowl MVP. We looked at each other like, ‘Hey, one guy’s probably going to play here and one guy isn’t. It doesn’t mean we’re not both great quarterbacks.’ "

Foles transferred to Arizona. Cousins added a lesson.

"You learn pretty quickly as a freshman in college, you’ve got to compete," Cousins said. "That’s the way it’s always been. So, this is consistent with my football journey as opposed to an exception."

Bottom line, Cousins stressed, is that it must be earned. That goes for the job and the acceptance by teammates as the leader.

"I’m going to control what I can control," he said. "You also understand there’s a lot you don’t control. I learned a long time ago, you’ve got to focus on what you can control."

Of course, nothing bolsters leadership like performance. For that, much hinges on Cousins’ ability to rebound from his Achilles injury. Morris insists, and Cousins concurs, that the rehab remains on track, 6 ½ months since surgery. It was encouraging that Cousins was a full practice participant in the non-contact drills on Tuesday, even with the Falcons preventing him from stressing his foot on plays involving much movement. He acknowledges there will be mental hurdles to clear in the coming weeks yet maintains he’s progressed to the point where the dropbacks seem close to normal. With zip and accuracy demonstrated on his throws, Cousins insists he could play a game today.

"I’m pleased, but there is more to go get," he said.

After surgery, doctors told him to expect a nine-month rehab.

"As a competitor, they told me nine," he said.

From that timeline, he told himself, "So, OK, seven."

A former teammate whom he rehabbed with in the early stages, former Minnesota Vikings running back Cam Akers, was declared fully recovered after five months.

"He kind of set a bar," Cousins said of Akers. "So, somewhere between five and nine (months) is kind of my goal."

Cousins sounds like a man in a rush in more ways than one. One of the missions as he absorbs a new offense installed by coordinator Zac Robinson is to try to “build a history quickly” with his supporting cast, Cousins said. He envisions developing a chemistry that will resemble playing together for five years when the real games start in September. An unrealistic expectation? Perhaps. But he’s surely thinking bold and aggressive. Maybe that’s why he arranged the study session with Gruden, once considered one of league’s most creative offensive minds.

It has all made quite the early impression on his teammates. London raved about his professionalism. Pitts has sensed how intentional he is with details. Mooney alluded to bonding that was ignited during the trip to Tampa, when they shared pet peeves.

"One of my things is that I hate checkdowns in 7-on-7 (drills)," Mooney said. "So, Kirk knows."

What’s tough for Cousins to stomach?

"Kirk hates guys celebrating when they catch the ball," Mooney said.

We’ll see how this plays out over time.

"If it’s a crazy play," Mooney said, "we’re going to have to celebrate."

Especially if the Falcons are following their new leader to a new level of NFL prominence.

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I couldn’t help it. In the course of scouting out great adventures for West Coast 101 — our new guide to essential destinations in Baja, California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia — I found myself compiling a personal top 10.

I’ll get to that list shortly. But first, an honorable mention.

Even if you’ve never seen “The Big Lebowski,” you’ve probably heard someone mention the rug that tied Lebowski’s room together . Well, Harris Ranch does that for California.

This I-5 stop for food, gas, lodging and bathrooms (not necessarily in that order) might not make anyone’s bucket list. And I’ll admit that if the wind blows the wrong way, it smells like cattle. But if you’re driving north-south through the San Joaquin Valley, which just about every Californian does sooner or later, you’re going to need to stop somewhere.

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Harris Ranch faithfully awaits, 184 miles south of San Francisco and 200 miles north of L.A. City Hall, the pride of Coalinga. Over the years, I’ve pumped gas at its Shell station, slept in its comfortable hotel (no resort fee or room tax), conducted interviews in its Horseshoe Lounge, lingered over breakfast in its Ranch Kitchen (excellent) and grabbed a sandwich from its Express BBQ (adequate). I’ve even bought bonsai from Hyo Kim, who peddles delicately coiffed junipers, olive and pine trees ($25-$500) from a stand on the dirt shoulder across the street.

I’m not saying cattle ranches are good for the planet’s future — definitely not. But I’m just realizing that for about 45 years now, Harris Ranch has been the rug tying together my adventures in the vast living room that is our West Coast.

Your rug might be different. After all, these lists are subjective.

Of our 101 best West Coast experiences, these 10 resonate most for me. I’d recommend them to just about any California newbie and I’d grab at a chance to visit them again — some for basic beauty, others for the stories they tell or the memories they tie together.

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10. Rady Shell, San Diego

I have a hard time imagining a more pleasant place to see an outdoor concert. Well, maybe the Red Rocks Amphitheater outside Denver. But on the West Coast? I’ll take this sleek bayside shell in downtown San Diego. And I’ll try not to be resentful that nobody thought of this while I lived down there.

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9. Deetjen’s Big Sur Inn

Deetjen’s Big Sur Inn in Santa Cruz, Calif., Tuesday, April 19, 2022 in Santa Cruz, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023. (Nic Coury/For The Times) Deetjen’s Big Sur Inn in Santa Cruz, Calif., Tuesday, April 19, 2022. (Nic Coury/For The Times) Deetjen’s Big Sur Inn in Santa Cruz, Calif., Tuesday, April 19, 2022. (Nic Coury/For The Times)

What are we going to do about Highway 1? Since that coast road was built on the slopes of Big Sur in the 1930s, we’ve treasured it. But as any acrophobe, geologist or engineer could tell you, those slopes crumble and slide relentlessly. Year after year, Caltrans moves mountains to keep that two-lane road navigable. Then comes another slide. Since January 2023 it’s been impossible to drive from San Simeon to Big Sur via the coastal route. (Caltrans has forecast a reopening, with some delays, on May 27.) Whenever I worry about the highway, I think of Deetjen’s, which is basically a roadside time capsule clad in weathered wood. It opened about the time the highway did and won over generations of road-trippers with its rustic rooms and restaurant. Before Helmuth Deetjen died in 1972, he set up a nonprofit organization to keep the place running in old-school fashion. I’ve been stopping there since the 1980s. You have to call to make a reservation. And when you get there, you have to expect paper-thin walls along with the Norwegian woodwork, the crackle of the fireplace and the portrait of Deetjen on the wall. It’s a priceless place. And Nepenthe and the Henry Miller Memorial Library are just down the road. We just can’t take Deetjen’s or that road for granted.

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8. Yosemite Valley

Does this need explaining? Probably not. If you’re arriving from the south, you emerge from the long, dark Wawona Tunnel to see El Capitan and Half Dome looming above a green, wet world of its own. Waterfalls roar left and right. The valley stretches for seven miles, framed by granite walls that Ansel Adams had to shoot and Alex Honnold had to climb. The Merced River meanders through. Even if you don’t have $600 to spend a night in the Ahwahnee Hotel, you can pop by for a snack, gaze up at painted rafters that go back to 1927 and warm yourself by one of the big fireplaces.

7. Venice Beach

Venice, CA - April 03: A man throughs a trick at the skate park at Venice Beach on Wednesday, April 3, 2024 in Venice, CA. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) (Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times) Venice, CA - April 03: People enjoy a day at Venice Beach on Wednesday, April 3, 2024 in Venice, CA. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) (Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times) Venice, CA - April 03: A man surfs at Venice Beach on Wednesday, April 3, 2024 in Venice, CA. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) (Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times)

Yeah, I know. There’s plenty to lament in Venice. But when you hit that beach at the right time on the right day, it feels so emblematic of Southern California. On my last visit, the sun was just setting. My wife, Mary Frances, and I checked out the skateboarders, chatted with a few artists who were selling work along the sidewalk and did a double take at the Shul on the Beach (a.k.a. Pacific Jewish Center), an Orthodox synagogue where worshipers were just gathering for a Friday night Shabbat meal.

6. The whales of Baja’s lagoons

It’s one thing to watch migrating gray whales off the Southern California coast, standing at the rail of a big boat, looking for spouts in the distance and perhaps drawing within 100 yards. It’s something else when you’re in a panga on the waters of a southern Baja lagoon — usually Ojo de Liebre (Scammon’s) or San Ignacio. These immense creatures, the cows and and the calves, get so close sometimes, it feels intimate. And maybe a little scary. The adults weigh up to 90,000 pounds.

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5. Ferry Building and waterfront San Francisco

The Ferry Building in San Francisco, Calif., Friday, April 12, 2024. (Nic Coury / For The Times)

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I’m trying to think of a more successful architectural resurrection than San Francisco’s Ferry Building. And failing. Picture that 1898 waterfront building in the 1920s, when there was no Bay Bridge and no Golden Gate Bridge and up to 50,000 people per day were commuting by ferry. The Ferry Building at the foot of Market Street was the center of the Bay Area’s nervous system. Then the bridges went up, commuters abandoned the ferries, the building was rehabbed into ugly offices and decades passed. Finally, in the aftermath of the 1989 Loma Prieta quake, San Francisco leaders launched a plan to revive the building. It reopened in 2003 as a foodie-oriented restaurant and retail space, a thousand times more interesting to me than the souvenir shops of Fisherman’s Wharf and Pier 39 (although at least you get the sight and sound of sea lions there). Apart from the food, it’s got great views of the Bay Bridge. (And with luck, that bridge’s nightly light show, which went dark last year, will resume in early 2025.) I think of the Ferry Building and the Golden Gate Bridge as the bookends of the waterfront.

4. Hidden Valley, Joshua Tree National Park

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3. Pike Place Market, Seattle

This is always the first place I want to go in Seattle, a spot where people, colors, flavors and scents all come together. I walk past the mirrored bar of the Athenian restaurant, where my buddy Rick and I had beers in 1986, my first time in town. I go down below to make sure the bubble-gum wall is still in place. I mourn at the spot where the newsstand used to be. I kick myself for failing to buy an incredibly cool cigar-box guitar from the Soul Cat Guitar guy when I had the chance. (I thought I’d have another chance at his market stall when I visited in January, but he wasn’t there that day.) I listen to buskers and eat unhealthy snacks. I stick my head in the anarchist collective bookshop ( Left Bank Books ), which has somehow lasted 51 years. And like every other tourist, I linger near the fishmongers so I can see them flinging fish and hollering at each other.

2. Capilano Bridge Suspension Park, Vancouver

On my first visit, a few years ago, it was raining and the park was packed. I wondered if the bridge would be closed. Nope. Open, and prone to slightly jiggle as I stood 230 feet above the Capilano River, surrounded by tall trees and mist. When I returned in February, it was snowing, the park was nearly empty and the bridge was still open. The vibe was part “Twin Peaks,” part “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.”

1. Badwater in Death Valley

Mike “Mish” Shedlock kayaks the calm waters of Manly Lake at sunrise in Death Valley. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) Park visitors kayak, paddle board and wade knee deep in Lake Manly in Badwater Basin. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) Unique salt structures form in the Badwater Basin at Death Valley National Park where water combines with the natural salt deposits at 282-feet below sea level, as seen in 2014. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Badwater is hot and dry enough to kill you pretty quickly, but as long as you have water to drink, a little shade and a way out, you’ll probably live and have a story to tell. On my first visit, a summer day about 30 years ago, Death Valley was even hotter than usual, around 115 degrees. The power had gone out at our Furnace Creek hotel. Rather than crowd into the marginally cooler hotel pool with scores of young children (and their urine, most likely), I headed with my wife and friends for the vast, flat, salty, dry lake floor of Badwater with a Wiffle ball and bat. The game didn’t last long, but there are photos: Except for our 20th century leisurewear, we looked like biblical figures in the process of being turned to pillars of salt. So last year, when rains washed out roads, closed Death Valley National Park for months, refilled the lake bed and transformed the basin into a great big mirror, I was eager to get back there.

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Within days of the park’s reopening, I got to Badwater for sunrise and came back again at sunset. No Wiffle ball. Just the big sky, the mountains reflected in the lake and a handful of fellow travelers in silhouette at water’s edge. To those bold few who managed to kayak in Death Valley for the three winter weeks that it was possible, I envy you. I don’t know if I’ll ever see that lake again — as of May 1, it was just a few inches deep and shrinking fast — but now I have two layers of Badwater memories to carry with me.

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INDIANAPOLIS — At this time last season, in the first week of the WNBA campaign, the stakes were elevated — or as high as possible at that juncture of the calendar — for the Liberty in their second game .

They’d constructed a superteam and then lost the opener by 16 on the road.

Almost everything that could go wrong went awry.

It was a disaster.

A concerning 40-minute stretch that made their next game, at Barclays Center against the Fever two days later, all the more important.

So while their 17-point victory over Indiana became an afterthought by the time their franchise-best regular season ended, May 21 marked the first win of the Liberty’s star-filled era and provided the first tangible glimpse at their ceiling.

Nearly one year later, everything has flipped for Thursday’s first Fever-Liberty matchup of the season.

Indiana altered the trajectory of its organization by selecting Caitlin Clark No. 1 overall in the WNBA draft but were crushed by 19 during Tuesday’s opener at the Connecticut Sun.

Clark turned the ball over 10 times .

The flashes of her vintage shots and league-altering potential were accompanied by those miscues.

The stakes were already high for Thursday, when Clark and the Fever host the Liberty in their home opener at Gainbridge Fieldhouse.

This is about Clark.

This is about the future of the WNBA.

The Liberty’s two-game road trip to start the season coincided with one of the most anticipated nights on the league’s 2024 slate.

And it now doubles as a rare night where Clark will be tasked with preventing her previous game’s struggles from materializing again.

“I think anytime you can have a home opener and have the support that we’ve had, like our preseason game was tremendous and now that we get to do it for real, I think it’s gonna be a lot of fun,” Clark said Tuesday. “It’s gonna be loud. We’re gonna need to use the environment to our advantage, and I think just learn and move on and get ready to play and embrace it and enjoy it, because it is special, too.”

The Fever tasted what the environment could resemble during their home preseason game, when 13,028 attended and shattered the organization’s previous record.

The same surge happened when Clark and Iowa played at Carver-Hawkeye Arena and traveled for road games.

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When the Fever jetted to Uncasville and faced the Sun, the team sold 8,910 tickets for their first home-opener sellout since 2003.

Even though Clark led Indiana with 20 points, her turnovers — she committed 10 just three times in college — emerged as an early obstacle.

The broadcast captured Aliyah Boston, the Fever’s No. 1 overall pick in 2023, instructing Clark while walking off the court at halftime.

That all added another layer to Thursday.

This time, the Liberty escaped with a win in their opener.

This time, their superteam roster that mostly remained the same will be just a footnote against the Fever.

It would’ve been a monumental game for the WNBA even if the Liberty weren’t the opponent.

“We have a team that has some new players in this league but have a lot of vets and have a lot of experience,” Liberty forward Breanna Stewart said Tuesday. “I think that it’s going to be a big game. It’s going to be their home opener and we’ll treat it like that, but we are going to be focused on ourselves.”

So it’ll be the superteam against the WNBA’s phenom.

It’ll be the Fever, looking for that foundational win every start to a new era needs, with more at stake.

It’ll be Clark looking to turn her turnover-filled debut into an anomaly.

For once, the Liberty and their quest for an elusive first title will cede the spotlight.

“It’s another game for us, to be honest,” Liberty guard Sabrina Ionescu said Tuesday. “Like every single arena that we’re going into this year, and every single team that’s coming into ours is gonna be facing record-breaking crowds, and so it’s nothing really new to us.”

— Bridget Reilly contributed to this report

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Sometimes even the easiest recipe isn’t easy enough. That’s where the best meal delivery services come in. Yes, even people who are obsessed with food and cooking as much as we are as editors at Bon Appetit like cooking from meal kits. We turn to meal kits to get some external recipe inspiration, and to gain some tips for working smarter rather than harder in our home kitchens. When we say external inspiration, we mean curated grocery deliveries that come with recipes, preportioned ingredients, or even fully premade meals, if you’re into that. To help you narrow down your meal kit options—you have many—we tried some of the most popular services around. Here’s what we learned: While all of them have their pros and cons, there’s a meal delivery company for every kind of cook (and non-cook). So whether you’re looking for a subscription service that meets specific dietary needs, prioritizes high-quality ingredients and truly fresh meals, or offers a good selection of budget-friendly healthy meals , you’ll surely find your match below. Go directly to our top picks to order your weekly meals, or skip down to learn more about how our editors tested these kits .

Skip straight to shopping meal kits:

• The Best Sustainable Meal Kit : Shop Green Chef ($13/serving)
• The Best Option for People Who Love to Cook : Shop Marley Spoon ($21-26/serving)
• The Best Virtual Grocery Store : Shop Hungryroot ($8/serving)
• The Best for Family-Friendly 15-Minute Meals : Shop Home Chef ($10/serving)
• The Best Affordable Meal Kit : Shop Dinnerly ($5/serving)

The Best Meal Kit for Sustainability: Green Chef

If you’re interested in sustainability and cooking with organic ingredients, then you’ll appreciate Green Chef—the first certified organic meal kit. They offer a weekly menu of 30 meals to choose from and cater to a variety of diets, including Mediterranean, keto, vegan, and gluten-free. But what I like most about this meal delivery service is the variety of flavors within the menus. With options like salmon with creamy chimichurri , creamy mushroom and meatball soup , and Italian roasted carrots with barley and ricotta , I found it easy to stay satisfied without getting bored. One of the best meals I tried was the enchilada-spiced ground turkey bowl . Not only was it tasty—smoky and savory with a pleasant crunch thanks to toasted pepitas—but also the premade enchilada sauce and ready-to-use paprika-cumin blend helped keep the prep and cook time down to 25 minutes total. That said, I should note that while all of Green Chef’s recipes are simple and easy to follow, most of them require using multiple pots and pans (at times, too many for my liking). This isn’t the meal delivery service for one-pot recipes, but it is your best bet if you want high-quality, fresh ingredients from local farmers and eco-friendly packaging that’s made from recyclable, reusable, or compostable materials. — Tiffany Hopkins , commerce writer

Pros: Flavor variety, high-quality ingredients, easy-to-cook recipes

Cons: You’ll use a lot of dishes cooking these meals

The Best Family-Friendly Meal Kit: Marley Spoon

Marley Spoon

Meet Marley Spoon, a.k.a the easiest way to get Martha Stewart’s most beloved recipes onto your dinner table. This meal kit collaboration between the American lifestyle icon and the popular Berlin-based meal company offers a plethora of classic, family-friendly meals. With more than 100 dishes to choose from every week, they have one of the biggest menus I’ve seen from a traditional meal kit service. I enjoyed the red chili beef enchiladas , where all of the flavors from the tomatoes, bell peppers, and chorizo chili spice melded together deliciously. I was also a fan of the pastrami-spiced burger with homemade thousand island. I liked that all of the dishes came with pre-portioned ingredients and pre-made spice blends, but I should note that there’s still a lot of prepping you’ll have to do—whether that’s chopping zucchini, snipping herbs, cutting chicken breast into 1-inch cubes, or making a tomatoey caramelized onion sauce from scratch. These recipes take a little more time and effort, and they also require you to have some of your own pantry ingredients on deck. In many cases, you’ll need to have your own butter, garlic, and red wine vinegar to make the meals. These recipes aren’t a pour-and-stir situation, instead they actually require a good amount of attention. That said, Marley Spoon is a great option for people who want a meal kit that still allows them to cook, as opposed to one that does all of the cooking done for them. And for the days when you’re short on time or don’t want to clean a bunch of dishes, they offer some faster, “tray bake” meals (like this alfredo chicken and gnocchi ) that don’t require as much prep. —T.H.

Pros: Recipes from the all-star Martha Stewart archive, variety,

Cons: Lots of prep, comparatively time-consuming recipes

The Best Virtual Grocery Store: Hungryroot

Hungryroot is essentially a virtual grocery store with hundreds of recipes built around the food on its digital shelves. If you’re interested in getting help with your meal planning, this meal delivery service is a great place to start. You get a weekly set of recipes based on special diets and dietary preferences (vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, diabetes-friendly, etc), and they’re usually very simple, nutritious and easy to assemble: grain bowls, salads, burgers, plates featuring meat and/or veggies. You can also order a selection of standalone groceries, including organic produce and an array of sweet and savory “healthy” snacks you’d likely find in a hip media company’s pantry, like dried mango jerky , organic Medjool dates , and almond chickpea cookie dough . After using Hungryroot for half a year, I eventually grew bored of the recipes, which were basically permutations of a core set of foods and ingredients—the same sesame ginger sauce applied to different styles of bowls and salads, for instance. But I became deeply attached to several grocery items, such as the prepackaged garlicky herb chickpea duo , a dish I loved mixing into quinoa or farro for a quick and refreshing lunch. Hungryroot is best if you’re in discovery mode and want to poke around grocery aisles for hidden gems without ever leaving your apartment. — Karen Yuan , culture editor

Pros: Offers standalone grocery delivery in addition to kits (and has lots of fun healthy packaged snack options), meal planning services that cater to dietary preferences, easy recipes.

Cons: Recipes can get boring after a while, since they tend to pull from the same core ingredient set repeatedly.

The Best For 15-Minute Meals: Home Chef

Home Chef has a nice variety of meals, and if you’ve got dietary restrictions, the customization opportunities here are many. There are oven-ready meals that come with their own tin and grill-ready meals that arrive in a foil bag. There are the more traditional pre-portioned 30-minute meal kits, prepped 15-minute meal kits, and the Fast & Fresh option: a fully prepared meal you just have to stick in the oven or microwave. I am not a mom to anyone besides two cats who eat out of cans, but if I were a parent to human children, I imagine these options would feel like blessings. For those with more time to spare, the “Culinary Collection” offers some more advanced recipes, like blackened mahi-mahi with lemon dill cream , sautéed asparagus, and Parmesan potato pressé—a dish that turned out to be a bit too advanced for yours truly because I don’t own a muffin tin . (But did the challenge of making do without make me a better home chef? Perhaps it did, reader. Perhaps it did.) They also have snack, dessert, and breakfast options like maple brown sugar oatmeal bites from GoOats, a product I will be buying again because who doesn’t want to eat oatmeal that tastes like donut holes? While none of the meals blew me away in terms of flavor and the packaging was a bit gratuitous, if you’re looking for family-friendly meals to feed picky eaters, you will find a lot to appreciate here. — Hilary Cadigan , contributor

Pros: Choose between advanced, 30-minute,15-minute , or fully prepared meals; includes snack, breakfast, and dessert options.

Cons: Flavor profiles can be uninspiring, some gratuitous packaging

If you’re looking for both ease and affordability, then Dinnerly could be another meal kit delivery service for you. It proclaims it’s “The Affordable Meal Delivery Service,” and at $5 a meal it does come in cheaper than most competitors. When trying it out for myself, I liked that there were many dinner options to choose from (28 a week, to be exact) and that every meal came with an easy-to-follow recipe card with only five steps. I went with the pastrami-crusted steak , orange chicken , and Thai red curry stir-fry —all good, all fuss-free. The flavors were on point but mellow, so to take them up a notch, I added more seasoning. For the orange chicken I doubled the orange juice and soy sauce and also added honey and chili flakes. You don’t have to stick to the recipes exactly (though you certainly can), but I think they offer a good base to play around with flavors you like. — Rachel Gurjar , associate food editor

While many food delivery services emphasize 30-minute home-cooked meals, Gobble advertises entrees that take half that amount of time to prepare from start to finish. And they make do on that 15-minute promise. With meals like Tuscan pork sugo with peppers and aloo matar with marble potatoes, I’d say this is the best meal kit service if you want hearty dishes with bigger portions. (In my experience with other meal kit services, portions tend to be small, so you really get your money’s worth here.) My favorite meal was the chicken burger with sriracha aioli and yuca fries. The recipe was easy to follow; the sauces, dressings, and spice blends were pre-made; and the burger was juicy with lots of flavor thanks to the Cajun seasoning, spicy aioli, and honey-Dijon slaw.

The weekly menu includes roughly 15 easy-to-make dinners, but what I especially appreciated were all the optional add-ons. Unlike other delivery services I’ve tested, the various à la carte salads, soups, and flatbreads made it easy to plan a meal with multiple courses. I recommend getting one of the soups to have on hand for a quick lunch—the chicken tortilla soup is a wonderful choice. They even have the option to add on breakfasts (like Belgium waffles and bacon, egg, and cheese sandwiches) and desserts (like premade chocolate chip cookie dough and chocolate lava cake). While Gobble does offer meals for more specific diets—including low-calorie, dairy-free, plant-based, and vegan—that’s not the primary focus. This is the place to go when you’re just looking for tasty, satisfying meals that pretty much anyone would enjoy. —T.H.

Of all the premade meal delivery services I’ve tried, CookUnity is my favorite. All of the recipes are crafted by award-winning chefs (many of whom we’ve featured here at BA, like Taïm’s Einat Admony , Teranga’s Pierre Thiam and Mokbar’s Esther Choi ). Unlike its competitors, CookUnity doesn’t primarily focus on special diets, weight loss, or a “health” aspect, which I appreciate—sometimes, I just want a delicious meal and I’m not worried about if that meal is low-carb, high-protein, or if it has an ideal serving of fiber.

That said, CookUnity does offer a huge variety of options. It has one of the most robust weekly menus I’ve seen, and you can definitely find meals that’ll fit any kind of dietary preference, like vegetarian, dairy-free, gluten-free, and so on. I’ve found most of the meals I’ve tried to be hearty, flavorful, and well-seasoned, especially compared to other premade meal kits on the market. Some favorites? The grilled chicken yassa with jollof rice and plantains , the short rib with herb mashed potatoes , and the ginger salmon cakes with miso-Sriracha sauce . For the best results, you’ll want to reheat the meals in the oven, but you can also reheat them in the microwave if you’re short on time. If you’re interested in a solid meal delivery service that does all of the meal prep and cooking for you, CookUnity is worth it. Just play around and try a bunch of meal options to learn what you like best. —T.H.

Purple Carrot

I would summarize Purple Carrot as a plant-based meal kit for vegans and people who just want to eat more vegan meals (wannabe-gans?), who like to cook but prefer to skip picking out recipes and grocery shopping. Admittedly, the kits didn’t save me much time in the kitchen—there are plenty of vegetables to peel and chop, and in my experience, multiple pots and pans (and even a blender) to clean after the cooking is finished. But I like that I could skip the trip to the store and the endless scroll through recipes, and some of the dishes are intriguing, with ingredients I wouldn't ever think to combine (crisped gnocchi with furikake and a miso-tomato sauce? Color me skeptical-curious). The flavors are bold and bright. I made a Thai tempeh khao soi that took about an hour but tasted like it took four—and I even learned a technique or two (like sprinkling tempeh with sugar for the last few minutes of cooking so that the crumbles caramelize) that I’ll use when I’m riffing in the kitchen without the friendly guidance of a meal kit. Don't want to cook at all? Purple Carrot also sells fully prepared meals. — Sarah Jampel , contributor

Hello Fresh

I’m a big podcast listener, so I’ve been hearing about Hello Fresh—and its many, many coupon codes—for a long time. It has a lot going for it: There are plenty of options to choose from, the shipping is quick, and the meals are super easy to cook. I sometimes eat meat (the cuts of beef and pork I received were tasty, fresh, and high-quality) but was happy to see plenty of vegetarian and plant-based options to choose from, like black bean and corn tacos and bulgar grain bowls. My only caveat is that there was a lot of sameness to many of the meals I tried—repeat ingredients or the same seasonings used across disparate international cuisines. Still, portions were large, leftovers were plentiful, and I really enjoyed the convenience of knowing dinner was taken care of. Stick to more classic options—I loved the beef tenderloin with truffle mash —and you won’t be disappointed. — Alma Avalle , digital operations associate

Even the best home cooks can get a little tired of making dinner post holiday cooking season. If you want to eat meals that are nutrient-dense but dead easy to prepare, Factor is probably the way to go. Factor is a little like a fancier, dietitian-approved TV dinner. It’s a prepared-meal delivery service that takes cooking completely out of the equation. Here are the steps: Take the meal tray out of its paper sleeve, poke holes in its plastic lid to let air out, and pop the tray in the microwave for two minutes. I’ve tried a variety of meat dishes such as Creamy Tomato Pork Chop and Garlic Herb Salmon, but the real stunner was the Indian-Style Vegetable Rice, a richly seasoned vegetarian meal. The carnivorous dishes became a little repetitive, to be frank: Many of them consist of a small slab of meat sitting on a bed of some purée, accompanied by a couple dollops of different greens. But it's precooked by “real chefs,” as Factor’s website puts it, and a prepackaged meal with generous portion sizes, so I can’t really complain. The meals are filling for a single person, the ingredients are whole and simple, and the nutritional information per serving is broken down on the label of each dish (and if you’re concerned about following a particular set of dietary restrictions or are carb-conscious, there are paleo, low-carb, and keto-friendly meal options too). All in all, a solid choice when you want to eat a cooked meal while watching a half hour of a sitcom but don’t want to order takeout or do any of the cooking yourself. —K.Y.

EveryPlate is all about affordability, and that’s a really good selling point for a meal kit, especially when some plans end up costing you about the same as a mid-range restaurant meal. Here a single-serving shakes out to about $5, with added discounts for students . Not bad for a ponzu chili steak bowl with charred snap peas and ginger rice. Meals marked as “premium” will run you an extra $3.99 a serving, but these typically include pricier proteins like scallops. Dishes aren’t revelatory but are tasty and relatively simple to put together, and the ones marked “30 minutes or less” made good on their promise. I appreciated the ease with which a surprisingly hearty chicken sausage and kale soup came together, though a little packet marked “chicken stock concentrate” was certainly pulling a lot of weight. I also appreciated the relatively low level of packaging with this kit, and the fact that there were plenty of comfort foods and vegetarian options. That said, healthy eating is not necessarily the name of this game: a dish of scampi-style scallop linguine included four tablespoons of butter for two portions and no vegetables save for a single shallot. But maybe that’s what I get for picking the scampi. —H.C.

Territory Foods, another brand that solely provides premade meals, began in 2011 as a meal delivery service targeted at the cult of Paleo adherents. Now it’s expanded, thanks to a $22 million dollar investment , into a more diet-agnostic but still Paleo-minded platform. The name “Territory” presumably references the fact that the company works with local restaurants and independent chefs in each of its markets—a cool feature. Because of that structure, menu options vary widely across locations and change frequently, though everything is always free of gluten, dairy, and refined sugars. If that sounds limiting, it’s really not: in the three weeks that I sampled Territory, I didn’t notice those omissions until I read the fine print. Choose your delivery schedule (once or twice weekly) and number of meals (at least four per week). Each meal is priced individually, and you can skip weeks without penalty as often as you need to. I like how many filtering options there are when choosing dishes: customers can limit by diet (Paleo, of course, but also vegan, vegetarian, keto, Whole30, low fat, and more) or even specific macro amounts. Of all the different meals, miso pesto ramen with shrimp was my mainstay—the shrimp were large and tender, and the brown rice-and-millet ramen was delicious both hot and straight from the fridge. I also found myself returning to the Springbone chicken and rice , which came close to the halal cart I used to frequent near my office. The best part about all of them? The preparation doesn’t require any cooking, all you have to do is reheat them in the oven or microwave. Meals arrive in an insulated cardboard box. Except for the included ice packs, all the packaging is recyclable; the Paleolithic people would be proud. — Amanda Shapiro , contributor

Whether you’re looking for an introduction to Indian regional cuisine or an easy way to put dishes you grew up with on the table, Cumin Club offers low-effort meals while delivering big on flavor. The company’s three co-founders, who hail from the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, were looking for easy ways to get a taste of home. What I love about this meal kit service is that it’s basically an “add water, heat, and serve” type of situation. It’s great for days that I want a full meal but don’t have the time to make it from scratch. All the dishes are vegetarian, and I often use them as a base for my dinners or add a quick-cooking veggie—like frozen peas and carrots to their upma —to call it a day. (You could also add meat.) My favorite meal was the dal makhani . It's made from a short list of simple ingredients, has all the creamy richness you'd expect from the dish, and it takes seven minutes to prepare as opposed to overnight in the slow cooker. I ate this with a dollop of yogurt, chopped cilantro, and premade rotis. I also appreciate that Cumin Club offers dishes from distinct places of origin, like Kolkata and Chennai—both regions that represent my cultural identity but that often get overlooked when it comes to Indian food in the US. All the meals, which do not shy away from spice, come out to just under $5 a pop, which makes them relatively affordable even though it’s a subscription-based service. — Urmila Ramakrishnan , associate director of social media

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Of all the meal kit delivery services I’ve tried, Sunbasket is perhaps the most premium. They predominantly focus on health and sustainability, striving to use 100% organic fresh produce, responsibly raised meats, and wild-caught or sustainably raised seafood. Here, you’ll find an abundance of delicious meals—like Korean rice bowls with sticky-sweet BBQ chicken skewers and kimchi , Burmese chickpea and tomato soup with lemongrass , and seared tuna and black rice with roasted sweet potato and nori —that extend beyond the more basic, “greatest hits” recipes you’ll find at other meal kit services. All of the dishes I tried were flavorful and well-seasoned, and I enjoyed the unmatched diversity of ingredients. Looking through the menus, I would routinely come across a dish or ingredient I’d never cooked before—like these hominy fritters , which are very much speaking to me. That’s why I’d recommend this meal kit service to anyone who could use a little inspiration in the kitchen. Not to mention, all of the meals are quick and easy. I appreciated that the sauces and dressings were premade (and actually tasted good) and that the protein choices for the meals were customizable. For example, when ordering the BBQ meatloaf with garlicky greens and potatoes , you can select either ground beef, ground chicken, or ground turkey. For other meals, you can even choose your preferred cut of steak or chicken. They also offer weekly fully prepared, microwave-ready meals (I can vouch for the turkey chili mac with cheddar ). So, if you’re looking for culinary creativity and lots of flavor, Sunbasket might be the best meal kit for you. —T.H.

Sakara Life

BA’s commerce editor Carina Finn called her time testing Sakara Life’s healthy prepared meals her “week of wellness-girlie cosplay.” At $420 for 5 days worth of meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner), this is one of the more outrageously expensive meal kits on the market. And the brand is definitely positioning itself in the luxury health space: It has been endorsed by a whole host of wellness influencers, and also, crucially, by Gwyneth Paltrow—so you get what you’re dealing with here.

Despite her skepticism, Carina really enjoyed these meals. The breakfast options were almost entirely sweet, so she warns in her review that if you tend to be an eggs and avocado kind of breakfast person, you might be disappointed with the offerings. They also can have painfully twee names, like the “Yoga Bunny” breakfast she tried, which consisted of a gluten-free carrot muffin with carrot coconut butter and an extremely small apple (perhaps perfect for an actually bunny?). Once she got past the name, the muffin was nutty and delicious, with a fluffy texture you don’t often get with gluten-free baked goods—a lot of meals also come with gluten free breads that were impressive in both flavor and texture. Carina also tried protein waffles and a sweet potato and coconut yogurt parfait that she loved as part of the breakfast offerings.

Lunches from Sakara are, predictably, rainbow plates of vegetables and leafy greens, but Carina was pleasantly surprised by how filling they were thanks to lots of added seeds, beans, and whole grains. Dinners included the most variety, and a few of the offerings didn’t even seem dairy free or suited to dietary restrictions—Carina double checked the ingredients on an eggplant Parm dish that was so rich and creamy, it was hard to believe there was no dairy involved.

Overall, if you’re eating with particular dietary restrictions or an overall focus on healthy foods with zero effort, Sakara is a genuinely delicious option, even if it comes at an outrageous price. Carina was inspired to recreate many of the meals on her own, so if you want to splurge on your own week of wellness-girlie/Gwyneth Paltrow cosplay, you can use it as a jumping off point to inspire your own healthy cooking down the line.

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How We Tested Meal Kits

At any given moment, BA editors are probably testing a meal kit—we keep this process going perpetually to ensure that we test the ever-changing meal options the kits offer, and to monitor quality and consistency over time. For over a year, we’ve integrated meals from all of the companies above into our daily cooking repertoires. Editors select meals from the company, ensuring that they choose a wide variety of meal options that will really demonstrate everything this particular meal kit has to offer. We test and retest the kits, dividing them up amongst staff members, so that we get a variety of perspectives. We also periodically test meal kits that are new to the market, or ones we haven’t tested yet. Here are the factors we consider when we’re testing:

We unpack the meal kits carefully, paying attention to the way the ingredients arrive. We want packaging that ensures freshness, but we also keep an eye out for waste—to avoid things like single-use plastics as much as possible. We look at the individual ingredients offered in each meal kit, and assess their quality comparative to ingredients at our local grocery stores, and, of course, in comparison to their competitors.

Many of the editors who test our meal kits work on developing and cross-testing recipes, so they are experts at assessing whether the instructions are clear, the steps are efficient, and whether the recipe offers the best possible cooking results. But we also deliberately test these kits in our home kitchens, as part of our normal cooking routines, so we can gain genuine insight into how they perform when we’re quickly cobbling dinner together after a busy day of work, or trying to feed our families. After all, this is the reason many of us seek meal kits out in the first place.

This one’s obvious! We take tasting notes while we’re testing, and we consider this the most important metric upon which we judge the best meal kits.

Different meal kits are designed to meet different needs. Some offer packaged ready-made meals that are as easy as fast food, but offer more nutritional value. Some involve just as much chopping and sautéing and cleaning up afterward as a regular recipe. The first might be great for a busy family looking to fill a few weeknight dinners with cook-free options, while the second might be perfect for someone who genuinely loves to cook and is looking for new recipes and to learn new techniques. We do judge these meal kits against one another, but we also assess them from

There’s no way around it: Meal kits are expensive. But you pay this premium for the convenience of having the meals delivered to your door, access to original recipes, and, in some cases to have ready-made meals. We compared the price per serving on meal kits and tried to find the best quality for the price, or to ensure that the factors named above offered enough of a benefit to outweigh the increased cost.

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The Techno Pioneer Jeff Mills Blazes a Trail to Space, and Beyond

At 60, the D.J. and producer is inspiring fresh generations with new work, including an LP that approximates the experience of traveling through a black hole.

By Mike Rubin

During a recent performance by Tomorrow Comes the Harvest that had some attendees dancing in the aisles at BAM’s Howard Gilman Opera House, a thrilling rhythmic conversation began between the percussionist Sundiata O.M., who was playing African talking drums, and the Detroit techno pioneer Jeff Mills , who tapped out beats on a Roland TR-909 drum machine. Over a 90-minute set, the musicians boldly blended techno, jazz and modern classical, embodying the Art Ensemble of Chicago’s famous credo “Great Black Music, Ancient to the Future.”

Tomorrow Comes the Harvest began in 2018 as a collaboration between Mills and the Afrobeat originator Tony Allen , Fela’s longtime drummer. Despite their stylistic differences, they created a sonic language — based around total improvisation, not typically a techno hallmark — that Mills found so fruitful, he wanted to continue it even after Allen’s 2020 death. “My hope,” Mills said, during an interview backstage, “is that Tomorrow Comes the Harvest becomes an approach to play music — not always the same sound, but the idea of figuring it out while playing.”

Mills has blazed a singular trail over the past four decades: from his 1980s roots as the Detroit nightclub and FM radio D.J. the Wizard to his early 1990s period with the politically conscious Motor City techno collective Underground Resistance to his solo work helping define the sleek, stripped-down minimal techno genre. While always known as a dazzling D.J., Mills has continually expanded his horizons beyond the booth, including on high-concept album projects that began with “Discovers the Rings of Saturn” from the group X-102 in 1992, up through his new LP, “The Trip — Enter the Black Hole,” released last week on vinyl via his own Axis label.

Mills lifted Tomorrow Comes the Harvest’s name from a phrase coined by the science fiction author Octavia Butler, who was describing the potential power of seeds, properly sown, to influence the future. The metaphor seems apt for Mills’s entire career, which has inspired generations of electronic musicians, like Mali Mase, a 25-year-old D.J. and producer who releases music as Sweater on Polo.

“To me, Jeff Mills is someone who exhibits mastery, not only in techno, but all forms of expressions he explores,” said Mase, who spun a set dedicated to Mills during the 2023 edition of Dweller , a Black-centered annual techno festival in New York. “It would be so simple for him to sit back and bask in the spectacle of his own greatness. Instead, he challenges the forms established, reinvents, and still beats it sicker than anyone on a drum machine.”

At 60, Mills carries himself with a low-key cool befitting his role as one of techno’s elder statesmen. In conversation he’s thoughtful but soft-spoken, gently proposing visionary ideas between sips of tea. His stylish outfit — an olive velvet Jil Sander turtleneck with wide-legged pants by the design house Pet-tree-kor, accented by his recently dyed blond hair — seemed appropriate attire for the “Man From Tomorrow,” the title of a 2014 French documentary about him. In a text message, the veteran Detroit house music producer and D.J. Theo Parrish called Mills “the example of how to carry yourself out of nightlife and into proper artistry.”

“The Trip” is the soundtrack to a live multimedia production billed as “the world’s first cosmic opera,” which Mills and the avant-garde vocalist Jun Togawa presented last month in Tokyo . The project — Mills’s attempt to grapple with what might happen to humans journeying via spacecraft toward and through a black hole — expresses the potential distortions of time and reality through glistening ambience, propulsive percussion, swirling synth storms and interstellar sound effects.

Space travel is a running theme in Mills’s work, a fascination that dates back to his childhood watching syndicated reruns of the 1960s TV show “Lost in Space.” The Tokyo live presentation required nearly a year in preproduction, Mills said, employing dancers, choreographers and costume designers. He even went to Las Vegas to study casino floor shows, he said, so that he could better reimagine electronic music and how the audience might engage with it.

“I was always into the more innovative part of music, the conceptual, because that’s closer to comics,” Mills said. “I always had this idea that music should be like that: You should walk away with something after you hear it.”

On the opening night of Dweller last year, Mills premiered the newest version of his soundtrack to Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent sci-fi classic “Metropolis” (he’d composed an earlier iteration in 2000), and found a receptive audience among the festival’s young attendees. “He’s a teacher, and I appreciate that his music provides space for thought, as well as providing a blueprint of how to inscribe music with liberatory potential,” said Ryan C. Clarke, the festival’s director of educational programming. “When he was doing his mixing thing as the Wizard on WJLB, he might as well have been Charlie Parker at Minton’s Playhouse. We’re still coming to grips with the amount of complexity that he brought to the music.”

Indeed, Mills is techno’s Renaissance man. Besides “Metropolis,” he has created soundtracks and “cinemixes” for a number of silent films. He’s recorded classical versions of his techno tracks with France’s Montpellier Philharmonic Orchestra, electronic jazz as the Paradox, and Latin jazz as the Zanza 22. Where Mills once hid his identity behind a balaclava back in his Underground Resistance days, last year he became the face of the German fashion brand Jil Sander’s ad campaign, and provided the soundtrack for the unveiling of the Dior Men’s fall collection in front of the Pyramids of Giza.

“It’s not fashion that I’m interested in,” Mills said. “It’s people and how we’re evolving. What we wear is an extension of who we are and who we’d like to be. Clothing or a second skin shows our ambitions. It shows where we want to go.”

Mills began D.J.ing in high school, fooling around with his older brother’s disco records, and by his late teens his skills were already worthy of his chosen nickname the Wizard . By the time he was 20, he’d made a reputation for himself spinning at Detroit clubs like Cheeks, and soon joined the Detroit radio station WDRQ. While there (and later at WJLB), he became a sensation for his dizzying, high-velocity mixes blending hip-hop, electro and industrial music on three turntables; Mills explained that WDRQ execs were so terrified that his pyrotechnic scratching would break a needle live on air, they put an emergency third turntable nearby, and he eventually just began to use all three.

In 1989 he joined up with the former Parliament-Funkadelic session musician Mike Banks and the rapper and producer Robert Hood in Underground Resistance , techno’s answer to Public Enemy, which espoused a philosophy of defiant D.I.Y. self-reliance. With the motto “Hard Music From a Hard City,” the trio brought a new aggression to Detroit techno that proved a massive influence on the evolution of the German techno scene. In a text message, Banks described their global role as “sound ambassadors.”

Mills left Detroit for New York to become resident D.J. at the Limelight, and then spent the next three decades bouncing between Chicago and Berlin. A few years ago he moved his studio to Miami, though he spends most of his time in Paris. Recently, however, he and his wife also acquired an apartment in downtown Detroit, and he says he has a long list of projects he plans to initiate there. “It should be a city that spurs and develops ideas and creates them from the ground up,” he said.

Tomorrow Comes the Harvest was presented at BAM as part of the Long Play festival, curated by the experimental music organization Bang on a Can. David Lang, one of the group’s founders, said there was a connection between Mills’s ensemble and the lush pulsing of works like Steve Reich’s “Music for 18 Musicians.” “Jeff Mills has always noted his commitment to minimalism,” Lang said, “to reducing musical ornament, to his concentration on structure, and you hear all that here, loud and clear.”

The group’s BAM performance was Mills’s largest non-D.J. booking in the United States, but he’s hopeful there are even larger spectaculars on his event horizon. “We can really work to create more of an experience, rather than just the performance of music,” he said. “We can really create magic. We need to make the audience disappear and reappear somewhere else. That’s what we should be working on.”

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