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For “I Don’t Know How But They Found Me!” — the title borrows a line of dialogue from “Back to the Future” — McRae sought a lusher sound than she got on her folky 2022 debut; she recorded the album in North Carolina with the producer Brad Cook, who’s also worked with Bon Iver and Waxahatchee and who helped fill out the songs with appealing traces of turn-of-the-millennium pop by Avril Lavigne and Ashlee Simpson.

The former mother and baby institution was run by the Bon Secours Sisters, an order of Catholic nuns, and it closed in 1961.

As written by Bon Appétit’s former food director Carla Lalli Music, “Zucchini is like the glass of water that’s been sitting on your bedside table while you were away all weekend during a heatwave, and you know your cats have been drinking out of it.”

Later in the concert, the 56-year-old sang a medley of tunes by Peter Allen, the Australian songwriter and Manhattan bon vivant whom Jackman portrayed on Broadway in 2003 in “The Boy From Oz.”

I’m talking miso-spiked tahini blends from the Bon Appétit test kitchen.