When summer calls for a dessert, I usually bake up a fresh fruit pie or find the closest ice cream parlor. But this coconut panna cotta with mixed berry coulis, adapted from a recipe from Heidi Swanson’s Super Natural Cooking, combines the fruit from the pie and the cold sweetness of ice cream and hits […]
When I first landed upon Nourished Kitchen‘s recipe for black-eyed pea cakes, I immediately thought of dark little moons on a plate. But that was just my own association – Jenny has crafted these little cakes to be rich in meaning and celebration. The black-eyed peas are tokens of luck; the collard greens resemble dollar bills; […]
My cooking and eating habits have taken a noticeable shift in the new year. Ever since I began learning to cook, food has always been a source of meditation and experimentation for me. But this year, I’ve begun approaching food as medicine. I’ve long struggled with recurrent health ailments, and this winter alone I’ve battled […]
His name appeared in my gchat window. I hadn’t seen it there for more than three weeks since the internet was cut in Tripoli. 16:23 me: OH MY GOD OH MY GOD you’re alive A: jess! JESSJESSJESS JESSSSS I had heard from his sister the day before, with news that he was trying to […]
