Perzen Patel
@perzen
I want to take you beyond butter chicken. Indian food advocate, small biz owner and story-teller by passion. Communications professional and writer by trade. Mom to two boys with 1,000,000 questions daily 24/7.
Perzen Patel
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I have come to believe that food is history of the deepest kind. Everything we eat tells a tale of ingenuity and creation, domination and injustice—and does so more vividly than any other artifact, any other medium.
Robin Sloan • Sourdough: A Novel
But what’s really magical about chicken soup isn’t the nutrient quota or the fact it shifts your snot along: it’s that it is a delicious, precious metaphor for caring, and for nourishing. What feels really good about feeding yourself chicken soup – whether it’s a bone broth simmered for 12 hours or a microwaved bowl of Campbell’s Cream of Chicken –
... See moreRuby Tandoh • Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
Body positivity and rejecting fat bias and On food and eating
Soup as a metaphor of self care
When the social code is spelled out, when it is turned into a one-night-only game, you don’t have to know certain unsaid things, you don’t have to have been raised in a certain way
Priya Parker • The Art of Gathering
There are three areas of your job that can be improved using job crafting:
Tasks: Actively deciding to take on more or fewer tasks to increase how you feel about your job.
Relationships: Altering interpersonal relationships by leaning into some and decreasing others to improve your work environment.
Cognitive: Changing the way you think about your job... See more
Tasks: Actively deciding to take on more or fewer tasks to increase how you feel about your job.
Relationships: Altering interpersonal relationships by leaning into some and decreasing others to improve your work environment.
Cognitive: Changing the way you think about your job... See more
A chef’s secret to slicing beef quickly is to freeze the meat partially for 30 to 60 minutes until firm.
This makes slicing much easier and faster, as the firm beef does not slide under your knife and around the cutting board. Partially frozen meat also allows you to be more precise in cutting to your desired thickness.
This makes slicing much easier and faster, as the firm beef does not slide under your knife and around the cutting board. Partially frozen meat also allows you to be more precise in cutting to your desired thickness.
Velveting is a Chinese technique that involves marinating proteins with a mixture of oil and cornstarch to give proteins a “velvety” texture after cooking in hot oil (oil velveting) or boiling water (water velveting). The cornstarch and oil form a barrier that locks in juices and protects the meat from the hot cooking medium, and additional seasoni... See more
Making juicy beef/chicken stir fry
“Darby Saxbe, a psychology professor at the University of Southern California, explains to me that couples often fall into a pattern of demand and retreat—most often, the woman demands and the man retreats. This dynamic has arisen, she says, because men have less to gain by changing their behavior, while women are more likely to want to alter the s... See more
Instead of trying to copy other people’s success stories, here's what I think works better:
Study patterns, not paths.
Look at multiple examples of success in your field. Find the common principles, patterns, and tactics that show up, regardless of someone's advantages.
And don’t forget to pay attention to failures. When someone fails doing exactly wh... See more
Study patterns, not paths.
Look at multiple examples of success in your field. Find the common principles, patterns, and tactics that show up, regardless of someone's advantages.
And don’t forget to pay attention to failures. When someone fails doing exactly wh... See more