QUOTE OF THE DAY

“I stand up and challenge them when they say things that are anti-gay. I haven’t given up on them yet,” – Luis Ibarcena, a 32-year-old Spanish security guard, on why he still attends mass, despite now being married to his husband.

JOHNNY APPLE DOES MY HOME COUNTY: I grew up in the rural idyll of West Sussex. Gardening was the religion. The NYT’s Johnny Apple regularly eats and drinks his way through much of it each summer. Enjoy. He sure does.