2 days agoMember-onlyA Snack For Your First Week of UnemploymentThe last (and only!) time I have found myself suddenly thrust into the world of unemployment was the dead of winter in 2019. It was cold, isolating, and mostly just…sad? Scary? …Cooking4 min read
Aug 4Member-onlyYou Don’t Need To Be “So Grateful For The Opportunity” To Have Been Laid Off, ActuallyI wasn’t going to write a Medium post about being laid off but since I’ve done it everywhere else, here we are! I got laid off for the first time this Monday morning, after a brief meeting during which my colleagues and I were told that we would learn within…Work4 min read
Jul 25Member-onlyHow (and What) to Cook When It’s One Million Degrees OutsideI don’t know if it can technically be called a heatwave or if this is just some sort of new climate change-enacted normalcy, but the past several days in New York City have been disgusting outside, nearing 100 degrees Fahrenheit but also impossibly humid. Stepping outside for longer than a…4 min read
Jul 21Member-onlyA Blueberry Cheesecake Analog for Cancer SeasonYou may think: a cheesecake? At the peak of summer? Let me present you with a more palatable alternative: the blueberry goat cheese galette. — If you find yourself stuck in the paralyzing heat of summer, unsure of what you want to cook or asking yourself whether you really want to turn on your oven, may I suggest a variation of Deb Perelman’s any kind of fruit galette? Perhaps it is a weird Saturday morning…3 min read
Jul 13Member-onlySomething Cool You Can Make With Squash BlossomsYou’re gonna love this one. Crab rangoon, things of that nature. — Recently, I find that I do the same things on Saturday mornings. I wake up fairly early in the morning, I go to the gym, I lift weights before the gym gets crowded, I walk home, I grab the bag of compost from my freezer that I’ve been adding scraps…Crab Rangoon6 min read
Jul 5Member-onlyI Need To Calm DownI guess. — I am not a person who enjoys yelling or being yelled at. I have a loud talking voice but not approaching yelling levels, just the kind of loud that requires my boyfriend to gently remind me that there are neighbors when I’m loudly talking in bed at midnight and everyone…6 min read
Jun 22Member-onlyAnything Can Be Summer Dessert, Even a Bowl of Strawberries and CreamA few weeks ago we had a very hot day in New York. It was the kind of morning where you wake up sweaty even with the AC blasting from its cool little rectangle unit in your living room, where you walk outside and just the feeling of fabric on…3 min read
Jun 22Member-onlyDaily Harvest’s Crumblegate is a Masterclass in How Not to Respond in a CrisisYesterday my boyfriend sent me a link to this tweet, which no amount of context would make seem like less of a disaster for Daily Harvest, a subscription startup that sends you frozen healthy meals, is backed by celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow, and is valued at more than $1 billion…Dtc5 min read
Jun 13Member-onlyThe World’s Biggest Four-Day Work Week Experiment is Happening NowWorkers in the U.K. are about to have slightly more time on their hands. From June until December, 3,300 workers at more than 70 U.K. organizations will receive 100% of their regular paychecks in exchange for just 80% of their usual time spent working. In exchange, they’ll maintain 100% of…Future Of Work3 min read
Jun 13Member-onlyThe Only Thing You Need To Bring To A Picnic This Summer Is An Olive Oil CakeAs tempting as it may be to make an impressively frosted cake, a Basque cheesecake (it feels like everyone I know has baked one of these recently, and every restaurant I go to in New York City has their own spin on one on their dessert menu), or some sort…Cake4 min read
