Jesse Burkunk

Gentle Foods is a space for people who are learning to better care for themselves through food.

We like to cook, but not all the time. We don’t count calories. We’re learning to divorce ourselves from the binary of “good” and “bad” foods and instead accept that foods do not have moral value. We care about health (and believe that “health” looks

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People read nonfiction to learn and to feel. My framework for ensuring a blog post accomplishes both is to start with a first draft that focuses on "novel" ideas.

A novel idea is one that's not just new to the reader, but also significant and not easily intuited. Think of it as new and worthwhile . I've identified five categories:

• Counter-intuitive —

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