May was a fucking tough month for our family. We had a big decision to make: do we go back home to expensive California, which is going through yet another serious crisis, or do we…
We are visiting Austin at the moment, staying in an Airbnb in Cherrywood, a beautiful neighborhood in the northeast. The food scene here genuinely impresses me. Though we eat at home most of the time…
If you’ve been following me for a while, you know I’ve never shared a meat recipe. I eat meat and love the flavor, but for moral reasons I limit myself to once a week —…
I hate following trends. I prefer to start them. Everyone is wearing Hokas, I wear Asics. Everyone switched to earbuds, I’m still on my first pair of Earpods. Everyone was making Dubai chocolate, I was…
I can’t believe I posted the recipe video for this vibrant, warming dish on Instagram and YouTube but never here. It’s January and pumpkins are still around, at least here in North Carolina, where I…
Or, how to avoid getting frost bites in November in Boston! It was my second time in Boston. The first was about a month earlier, with the whole family. Had Leo, my eldest, not started…
Reposting this one because it’s been on our breakfast rotation for twenty-two years and shows no signs of leaving. This recipe was born 23 years ago, in the first trimester of my pregnancy with my…
I’m taking a break from creating new content to focus on a new project: introducing my grandmother’s Moroccan sesame anise cookies to America. Family and friends keep asking for them, so I’ve been mailing cookies…
I love stuffed vegetables but I’m rarely in the mood to make it myself. Though I love stuffing leaves — it’s like rolling a joint (says the woman who, in 51 years, has never actually…
A friend has been sharing his pain with me about his heartbreak after a 10-month relationship ended—heartbreak that could have been avoided if he had been willing to fully commit to her. I listened, took…
Pita is a hiding place, a sleeping bag, an edible bowl. Anything you tuck into a pita will be delicious. No wonder Eyal Shani’s Miznon restaurants are so successful. He didn’t invent pita sandwiches, but…
Did you know I was a private chef during the pandemic? I never mentioned that because it was brief and partly and wasn’t as exciting as it sounds. Not even cooking for Hollywood stars and…