The other day, I set a small corn tortilla on fire. In the toaster oven. It wasn’t intentional, of course. All I wanted to do was smash some avocado on top of it, sprinkle it with sea salt and cracked pepper and eat it as a snack before I left the house to run errands. […]
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During college, when I was living and studying in Spain, my friends and I took our first trip to Valencia in February — Valencia ciudad, we would say, as the region holds the same name. We had only been in Spain for a month. We lived just two hours away by bus, but we were young and the […]
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There are a lot of fabulous ideas out there regarding what to make and eat on Valentine’s Day — an abundance of chocolate, plenty of things shaped like hearts, all shades of pink and rose and red. This muesli is the thing I’d like to toss into the mix. Mushy breakfast cereal may seem ill-suited for […]
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This past Saturday, the sky was a flawless canvas of blue, the sun shone all day long and our neighborhood coffee shop passed out free coffee. It was my birthday, which made all of it feel like a gift just for me. We went to the market in the morning, filling our bags with purple […]
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