HeyJaredPaige’s Table
British-Mexican chef, writer, and former Meta recruiter in California. Building Paige's Table - postpartum meals, supper clubs, and culinary consulting. Subscribe for twice-monthly essays on food, motherhood, and ambition in your 30s. Come hungry.
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What needing to be medicated for postpartum depression taught me about American motherhood (opens the original)
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When I asked my husband if we could give our (very much loved and planned for) baby up for adoption, I didn't realize that was a sign of postpartum depression. When I set my five month old down in her crib so that I could run to the kitchen and punch the wall with my right hand while muffling my cries with my left hand, I didn't realize it then, either. When I started abusing the Xanax I had brought home from Bangkok four years prior, it culminated in a panic attack on my living room floor, alre
Watermelon, Coconut, & Olive Oil Elixir (opens the original)
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On my table, June (opens the original)
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Happy July! I don’t understand how it’s July already…June was good - chilly mornings at the library’s newly remodeled kid area, warm afternoons at the river, and late nights on my laptop while the baby sleeps.Parenting a one year old who just started walking and starting a business at the same time means that most days I am feral. Thanks for reading Paige’s Table! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<form class="subscription-widge
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