When summer is over and fall hasn't started, it's
Good morning everyone. For a brief moment last night, Delia Cai and I sat at what she called The Table at Le Dive, ate a baguette with butter, said hi to Cake Zine’s Aliza Abarbanel when she walked by, and the city felt friendly and okay. I was supposed to go to an election viewing party afterwards but started to feel quite anxious around 7pm, and ... See more
Emily Sundberg • "Cooked" is a word I'm seeing a lot in group chats.
In the university program where I was supposed to be emancipating myself from the kitchen, preparing myself to go back to New York having at least answered the question of my own potential, the novelty and thrill had thoroughly worn off. I could not find the fun or the urgency in the eventless and physically idle academic life. It was so lethargic
... See moreGabrielle Hamilton • Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
Here’s what’s ahead in this edition:
- An August of ideas: my California origin story
- The slow lift: a discovery
- Links and recommendations: not toooo many
- Checking in: what’s Robin doing?
Robin Sloan • The Golden Door
Of course the thing about beginning again — about starting over midway through is that you have to be willing to watch yourself die.
I learned that from writing this newsletter.
Next week, it will be three years since I launched the cereal aisle, and I think the most important thing I have learned in the time since is that rebirth is on the other sid... See more
I learned that from writing this newsletter.
Next week, it will be three years since I launched the cereal aisle, and I think the most important thing I have learned in the time since is that rebirth is on the other sid... See more
Leandra Medine Cohen • Three years of cereal
Jo looked at the bar, where she’d worked for a few summers pouring wine and shaking cocktails for the hordes from away, sunburned tourists who’d said her little seaside village was quaint and asked what folks did here in the winter. Well, this is what we do here, she thought. We gain weight and drink too much and get on each other’s nerves.
Tess Gerritsen • The Spy Coast
All seasons come with their fair share of good and bad, fortune and hardship, weirdness and normalcy, change and stagnation. And while I still don’t know the inner workings behind the universe (nor do I ever expect to), I continue to believe it is our sacred duty to extract joy wherever we can. It won’t erase the ills of the world, but it
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