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chicken + beef koftas with spinach, pomegranate, dill + cilantro salad
I love my friend Sarah, really love her. We met while working in book publishing, and bonded over the fact that our offices bookended an editor who believed life was lived by yelling on volume 10. We...
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this cauliflower tabbouleh is the business
Let me make one thing clear: juice cleanses are ridiculous. They’re a socially-acceptable means of starvation. I have to laugh when I hear people talk about how cleanses “clean out your toxins,” to...
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cucumber mint quinoa salad with shallot vinaigrette
When it comes to cookbooks, I used to be a hoarder. Easily seduced by minimalist, four-color photography (don’t even get me started on my affliction for Donna Hay’s stark, alabaster shoots), I’d find...
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my food journey, week 3: the gluten blitzkrieg
If you were in my home, right now, you might mistake it for a pharmacy. Pill boxes, bottles, refrigerated supplements, a time stamp for everything I ingest (I consider this my own private Clockwork...
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gluten-free | health-conscious book gear
Whenever I feel lost, I come back to books. Books have this arcane way of setting the world to rights, of being the salve for all that hurts. As a writer, I make sense of the world through prose;...
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my food journey, week 5: a meditation on food peer pressure + mirrors
Let me tell you about the kind of person I used to be. I was a pusher, a procurer of muffin bombs and an orderer of butter-slicked cookies the size of small plates. I consumed sweets at an alarming...
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the cauliflower bonzana: creamy soup + coconut rice
You may have noticed that I’ve gotten a little cauliflower crazy around these parts. When gluten and dairy have been violently excised from your diet, one has to find alternatives. You should know...
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glowing strawberry-mango guacamole
This weekend was exhausting. Although I love consulting, and enjoy the fact that I live a creative life without being chained to a desk five days a week, sometimes my flexible schedule means I have to...
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buckwheat tortilla with guacamole + fried beans + eating your way to a better...
After reviewing my food diary with my nutritionist this week (actually, it was more like open-heart surgery without anesthesia, but I digress), we started to talk about food combinations, fats,...
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for the love of snacks
Leaving a country where I feasted on sticky mangoes, seasoned tofu, charred chicken, and rice soaked in coconut milk was challenging in ways I hadn’t anticipated. Although parts of my recent holiday...
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tomato chickpea curry with rice
You guys know that I’ll find any excuse to make the CHICKPEA. Note that at one point this year I had to issue a temporary fatwa on the beloved legume because every time I fall in love with something I...
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grilled halloumi with strawberries + herbs
Nine months and a handful of days (give or take), and here’s me giving birth to a plate of halloumi covered in macerated fruit. We’ve come a long way baby from the days when I thought it logical to...
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roasted tomato pesto with bean pasta + sausage
When I was told that I’d have to go without gluten for nearly a year I was sure the rapture was coming. I would sit in my doctor’s office while he pored over my bloodwork, shocked about my insulin...
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spicy andouille sausage + chickpeas over rice
This morning I woke to watch Taiye Selasi talk about origin, specifically how to tackle that seemingly simple question: Where are you from? I’ve been thinking about origin a lot, how it’s not possible...
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the best smoothie ever: banana almond + date
After a few morning calls and a hot yoga class, I came back to my apartment drenched and starved. Since a few of my clients are on the east coast, I keep early morning hours so the notion of having...
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