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One of my favorite activities to do is cooking. I rarely eat out, maybe because I grew up in a African household where the question of eating out would be met with âWhat about the food you have in your fridge?â This year specifically where all of us were forced to stay inside, has pushed me to explore my love for cooking even more. Never with a set menu (unless my cravings were elevated), I would leave the task of creating a meal as I opened the fridge. Wonderfully guided along by weekly food boxes from my local community garden, I would just try and combine new and old flavors to create a wonderful lunch or dinner. Paired with a nice glass of natty wine (Gamay Gang). Enjoy the process!
Dec 17, 2020
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Yesterday I made a delicious chicken piccata and shared it with my roommates and it was a really special moment! It was delicious and I made it completely from scratch. I think that the art of cooking is so important, once you really get a hand of it you can prepare delicious healthy whole foods efficiently cheaply and sustainably! For me cooking is my hobby and one of my passions so I can understand how taking a leap into it can be hard but I always say cook more and your community will tighten around you. Itâs worth the effort! :))))
Jan 31, 2025
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One of the true joys of cooking is going to the grocery store with only a vague concept of what you want for dinner, and then improvising something beautiful in the kitchen afterwards
Break the rules, make a pasta the wrong way, add white wine to sprite, burn the hell out of your herbs - something delicious might be returned to you as a result
Jun 17, 2024
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I have the tiniest apartment in NYC and I love her. The kitchen is nothing more than the fridge sink oven and a small square of counter space but you know what we make it WORK. I never have all the necessary equipment to cook something but it forces me to get creative. I didnât have a lid to my saucepan so guess what we threw a baking sheet on there and called it a day. All I really needed was something to keep the heat (mostly) in. Donât have vinegar? Put in a lemon, thatâs also an acid. Donât have a trussing needle? Weâre dousing a safety pin in alcohol and sewing that chicken UP.
Restriction makes you think about why youâre doing something instead of going through the motions. Donât let your kitchen for ants hold you back!
Feb 24, 2025
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One of my favorite rituals is burning incense. Filling my space with aromas that take me places. Founded and created by Junior Adesanya, Cremate is a London based incense company. They specialize in all-natural hand dipped charcoal incense cones. Honestly it effâd me up the first burn because I wasn't ready for how natural the scent would feel, like I FELT IT! I burnt my first cone from them from a collaboration Cremate had done with Affix and it took me places, while equally grounding me with Mother Earth.
Dec 17, 2020
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Set in the south London neighborhood of Brixton in 1980. The film follows Blue, a young Jamaican man and his friends as he pursues his music career while dealing with the realness of racism and xenophobia. When released in theaters the movie Originally deemed âtoo controversial, and likely to incite racial tensionâ and was given a âXâ rating. Funny enough it was finally released in the US in 2019 right in the midst of our own racial reckoning. Right now more than ever Babylon feels very close to home. I highly recommend the watch, Plus the music in the film is sooo damn good!!
Dec 17, 2020
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Crime drama has always been my favorite genre to watch or read about. Not sure what that says about me but it is my truth. The first book series that immediately engulfed me from the first page of the first book to the last page of the last book was the story of Tom Ripley. Written by the talented Patricia Highsmith. This 5 book series follows the story of Tom Ripley, a sleek con artist and serial killer who seems to always find trouble and run towards it, while in the end always escaping consequence. Side bar: We all remember the 1999 film starring Matt Damon âThe Talented Mr Ripleyâ named after the first book, but also another must watch adaptation, and much better is the 1977 film by Wim Wenders âThe American Friendâ which follow the third book in the series âRipleyâs Gameâ.
Dec 17, 2020