read, eat, repeat (with emily fiffer)
book recs, recipes and musings from a former editor and restaurant owner.
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Travel Takeaways, Books + Baking (opens the original)
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Happy Monday! I’m fresh off an 11-day solo trip and feeling all of the aftershock: yearning, frustration, general annoyance at staid routines. Oddly, these feelings of deep dissatisfaction signify an incredible trip that must immediately be replicated, perhaps for eternity. I’m kidding but also not? Rather than do what I usually do – accept the feelings of post-trip dissonance at face value, assuring myself that they will eventually fade, I’ll get back into the routines and life will feel right
September Favorites (opens the original)
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Dumb & Summer (opens the original)
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I took an unexpected break after publishing mid-July. Nothing dramatic – summer took hold, I traveled, and suddenly I looked up and a month-plus had gone by. I miss writing! I’m sorry I disappeared.Somehow in the past few months – probably due to so much traveling? – I’ve stumbled deep into audiobooks, something I never thought I’d do. But you know what? It’s kind of great. To be clear: I do not believe listening to an audiobook is comparable to reading. It’s a completely different experience an
Childhood Delights + Summer Sweets (opens the original)
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When you look at the forecast, see 92F and think to yourself, ‘Not that bad!’ you know you have officially lost the plot. LA summer is here. We’re sweaty but at least there are copious ways to find chill: in museums (this and this); raw foods (<a href="https://emilyfiffer.substack.com/p/crunchy-coolness-everyday-lives?utm_source=pu
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