BLACK PEPPER & HONEY RICOTTA STUFFED FIGS.

I recently had an (obviously heated) debate amongst friends regarding which foods are like sex. Not sexiest, mind you, but literally, in and of themselves, reminiscent of sex. It’s an important distinction (you feel me)—these foods are entities so lush…
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NECTARINE OLIVE OIL FROYO POPS.

GUYS IT’S POPSICLE WEEK. It’s #popsicleweek. Did I mention, also, that it’s P@P$!CLE WE%K?!? Did I mention, also also, that I am incredibly excited to be participating in popsicle week? Because I am. Because there are popsicles in every shape…
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GREEN ICE CREAM!

Green. Green is home, the lush carpeting of grass beneath my body as I am seven, twelve, dreaming of falling in love, eighteen, falling in love, twenty-three, heartbroken, twenty-five, grieving, earth holding me as I learn to know myself. Green keeps me…
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4TH OF JULY DOUBLE BERRY CREAM PIE!

Though I could never blindly declare that all our nation’s woes were suddenly absolved, I will say this: It’s been an ok week to be an American. Last Friday’s gay marriage ruling was a massive victory for so many I…
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CARAMELIZED NECTARINES WITH MAPLE COCONUT GRANOLA.

It’s been a seriously intense two weeks: I saw an epically moving opera (Dog Days, featuring two completely genius friends: Fellow food blogger Molly Yeh and brilliant college classmate Lauren Worsham-Jarrow), I honored the seventh anniversary of my mother’s death, and,…
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SUMMER GREENS WITH LEMON HERB YOGURT DRESSING.

When summer comes a-knocking, what do you say? The season asks of us our all, baring every emotional and physical cobweb in the glaring light of long days and warm nights. Summer is an intense season for me, inclined as…
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CANTALOUPE COCONUT LIME SORBET.

It’s said that the sensory experience of eating—the scents, the textures, the tastes—has transportive powers and the capacity to transform even the heaviest sadness into beauty. (Need evidence? Reference the epic Como Agua Para Chocolate—Like Water for Chocolate.) So what about…
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CHOCOLATE CHERRY SMOOTHIE BOWL.

  Each year, I’m shocked by the steady march of the seasons—offended, almost, by their nonchalance in encroaching upon the blank slate of my year. Summer? I scoff. Already? Impossible! And yet here are the peaches, the cherries, the ripe warmth of sunshine early…
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BANANA BRÛLÉE YOGURT WITH BLACK SESAME BRITTLE.

Good morning! There are two blank canvases that tend to inspire me most frequently in the kitchen: Bread and yogurt. (Coincidence that they’re both breakfast foods? Perhaps not!) Both are perfect tabula rasa (rasi plural?) for any culinary inclinations I…
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