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On Losing My Appetite (opens the original)
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About four months ago, I started losing my appetite. I noticed I didn’t fancy eating the things I used to love before, and some things I even found appalling.Cooking became mission impossible, and a trip to the grocery store or the farmers’ market became a visit to hell. My relationship with food—one cultivated through years of not only nourishment but also intellectual interest—was rapidly changing.I would start the day as normally as possible, with my pair of toasts with tomato and olive oil s
The Monday Digest, August 2026 (opens the original)
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Welcome back to My Cup of Tea!After what initiated as a moth-long pause and ended up in something much prolonged, I am back, sort of.Instead of keeping up with the weekly scheduled I have been following since the beginning of this newsletter more than two years ago, I’ll change to a biweekly one. You’ll understand the reasons behind this decicion on Thursday’s essay, but long story short: I cannot keep up with producing some much content at the moment.<a class="button primary" href="https://elis
A Tribute to My Yaya Rosa (opens the original)
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This newsletter has been on pause for a while now, and next week you’ll know why. But this week, I felt the need to write again to celebrate my yaya with the world.Subscribe nowRosa Pujol Pujol—a repeated surname that is the fruit of a coincidence, as both her mother’s side and father’s side were named “Pujol”—was born in Badalona, Catalonia (Spain), in 1932. Only a few years after she was born, she lost her father in the Civil War,
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