"A lifelong New Yorker, James Harris, co-host of the menswear-slash-everything podcast Throwing Fits, knows how to take advantage of the holiday week in New York. It's a time when all the transplants return to their respective coasts and suburbs and, suddenly, Resy slots open up. On a weeklong seafood bender, he managed to squeeze into not one but two of the city's most impossible tables: and . He also hosted his parents for the first time this Christmas, improvising his way through a decadent seafood spread that left everyone happy (and functioned as a double-portion lunch the next day). His week of no-lines eating also produced two food predictions for 2026: Pomelo will be the citrus of the year, and the Cosmo will be the drink of the year. Pomelo Cosmo, anyone?"
"Wednesday, December 24I wake up at 6:45 a.m. for no reason. I've decided that 2026 is going to be the year of sleep. I think I got pretty dialed in this past year on cooking for myself at home, and I realized that maybe the next big pillar of life and health that needs addressing is my sleep issues - waking up in the middle of the night and not being able to go back to bed, waking up super-early and not being able to fall asleep again, not being able to fall asleep at all. I'm not a big resolutions guy, but maybe that's a yearlong project."
"I make a 20-ounce hot coffee at home, which I have every morning without fail. Same ceramic drip cone I've had for ten years, beans from Variety in Greenpoint. I kind of need it to function. I'm very jealous of people who can just get up and go. I need like an hour and a half in the morning to drink coffee, spend time with my Japanese toilet seat as a result of the coffee, do sudoku, read, scroll my phone. I play tennis for an hour in the McCarren bubble. I picked up tennis seriously during COVID, and now it's kind of my thing. With any tennis court in New York, getting court time is its own competitive sport, so I book a weekly lesson for the entire season. It guarantee"
James Harris, a lifelong New Yorker and co-host of the Throwing Fits podcast, uses holiday week to access difficult restaurant reservations, enjoying a weeklong seafood bender and hosting his parents for a decadent seafood Christmas that provided leftovers for lunch. The holiday dining produced two 2026 food predictions: pomelo as the citrus of the year and the Cosmopolitan as the drink of the year. Harris plans to focus on improving sleep in 2026, noting middle-of-the-night wakefulness and difficulty falling asleep. He maintains a strict morning coffee ritual, spends time on small routines, and plays tennis regularly, having taken up the sport during COVID.
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