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
perzen.substack.com
Interesting 2 x 2 matrices and Winning at life
Activities that give life meaning. Hint: it’s not social media
On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
Harold McGee • 4 highlights
“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... See more
you might stress over Christmas traditions like putting up fairy lights 🎄in the exact perfect arrangement, but your partner might think, Why are we doing this? The kids will just knock them over anyway😧 . To them, it’s not about being lazy; it’s about not seeing the point.
Common opinion has it that hunger is the physiological need to eat, whereas appetite is framed as just a desire to eat, driven by emotional or sensory pleasure rather than bodily need. We see this in the division between nutrition and gastronomy, or between food as fuel and food as pleasure.
Ruby Tandoh • Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
Right, but Should We Be Scheduling Sex? Esther Perel Answers All the Questions
share.snipd.comShip creative work. On a schedule. Without attachment and without reassurance.
Seth Godin • The Practice: Shipping Creative Work
“Greatness is consistency.
Meditating once is common. Meditating daily is rare.
Exercising today is simple. Training every week is simply remarkable.
Writing one essay rarely matters. Write every day and you're practically a hero.
Unheroic days can make for heroic decades.”
Meditating once is common. Meditating daily is rare.
Exercising today is simple. Training every week is simply remarkable.
Writing one essay rarely matters. Write every day and you're practically a hero.
Unheroic days can make for heroic decades.”