Image: Still from Gentefied on Netflix Cooking is one of my favorite hobbies. I love the combination of practicality and creativity involved in making a pot of soup on the fly or a methodically measured pie. Self-isolation has been a great opportunity for me to return to my love for project cooking -- recipes that [...]
Love in the time of singletude
I love Thanksgiving. I'd say it's my favorite holiday, but I say that on Halloween and Christmas too. But really, Thanksgiving is wonderful because it's all about family and food. No pressure of gift giving, no ornaments to break, no pine needles to sweep up. Just a feast with your loved ones. I love cooking almost [...]
Today would have been my Nana's 80th birthday. We might have lost her this June, but we feel her looking down on us every day. I've felt her presence sitting in the courtyard at my Palo Alto office building and eating Thanksgiving dinner in St. Louis. Sometimes she appears as a little hummingbird; my mom believes [...]
This past weekend, I hopped on a plane and hung out with my family in St. Louis for my Granny's birthday. It is always so wonderful to back home, enveloped in the love and nostalgia of the place I grew up in. Whenever I come to St. Louis, I feel like Dorothy again. I spend [...]
Around the World in 80 Plays 