hello hello! and happy holidays to you! may you take a moment this holiday season to slow down. to take a walk outside in the cold and try your hardest to find the chilly air refreshing. to let go of all impatience while standing in line at the mall and think of it instead as a gathering of people taking care of loved ones through the language of gift-giving. and here are a few other things to help you along:
- here’s an 80’s-style supermarket filled with 31,000 handmade felt items
- or we have this smoked butter shortbread with violet buttercream inspired by shakespeare’s twelfth night, of course.
- let us all continue on the path of soaking fruits and veggies in various cocktails with these gin and tonic refrigerator pickles
- you know in netflix’s salt, fat, acid, heat, when samin nosrat samples various ages of parmesan and says it’s bringing tears to her eyes? yeah. anyway, please just buy me parmesan cheese for the holidays. relatedly, samin nosrat is the chef america needs right now. amen amen.
- how to teach girls to build one another up, instead of tearing one another down, with artwork by your’s truly!!!!!
- and, how a woman becomes a lake
- self care for me this winter is going to involve curling up with a hot drink and this book about julia child’s cats, ok?
- or here’s visual feast, a book about food styling and art.
- special sauce podcast: a must-listen
- dating without texting kind of sounds like the ideal, you know?
- can 29 chefs make people excited to eat crickets? i could get excited, honestly. eating bugs could save the world.
- but also, what if everyone ate beans instead of beef? “this study is novel for the idea that a person’s dedication to the cause doesn’t have to be complete in order to matter. A relatively small, single-food substitution could be the most powerful change a person makes in terms of their lifetime environmental impact.” If you don’t know, now you know.
- consider bringing something light and refreshing to those holiday potlucks, such as winter tabbouleh
- and finally, the tartine thought experiment by fellow saveur blog awards nominee, jun and tonic. very intriguing!!
that’s all i have for you but i am wishing you the very best this season indeed. friends, i love you.
-kara
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