ASIAN CHOPPED SALAD WITH PAN-SEARED SESAME TOFU.

This post was created in partnership with Taylor Farms. All opinions are my own. On Wednesday at 4:30pm, my father, his partner Susan, and I exited LA eatery Sqirl after a long, perfectly tangy-crunchy-salty-sweet lunch with Liba and baby Zelda.…
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ROASTED CORN SALAD WITH PEPITA CILANTRO DRESSING.

Hello from New York! It’s a balmy 80º at 8 am, and I’m already dreading this afternoon’s sweatfest. It went from near-winter to dead-of-summer overnight here, and I’ve arrived just in time for the relentless heat. Initially I’d planned to…
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JALAPEÑO CHEDDAR WAFFLES RANCHEROS.

I made a list of things to tell you once I announced the book—things I had to keep from you while I worked away in secret. It was a strange period, largely because I was so exhausted, completely depleted by…
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TOASTED PEPITA GUACAMOLE.

Before you are even really awake, before alertness has settled down into your mind, walk outside. Walk barefoot. Walk out onto the deck, down the stairs, down onto the grass. Walk over the rocks and the leaves, toes gripping and…
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ROASTED FENNEL & BURRATA TOAST.

When I finally made it home—my Maui home, my Ulupalakua home, my home in the middle of nowhere on the slopes of Haleakala—I completely collapsed. I stopped answering texts. And phone calls. And emails. I cooked for the first time…
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MEDITERRANEAN CHICKPEA & BABA GANOUSH WRAPS.

We wound our way through tiny, cobblestoned streets that smelled like smoke and coffee and the acrid scent of city in summer. We were looking for falafel. We were in Paris. I was thirteen. I can’t say for sure, but…
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