Bring Your Lunch
Lunchflation is happening. Prices for wraps soar 18%, sandwiches 14% and salads 11% in just one year.
Slow Food
Stephanie Gravalese is a food writer that I met years ago at TechMunch. She has launched a new blog, Slow Living Kitchen which is focused on recipes and techniques to add slow living practices to how you eat and drink.
Making Lemonade
My dear old comedy friend Lianne Stokes has just published a gratitude journal for cynics. Fuck Making Lemonade: A Gratitude Journal for the Cynic: 12 months and 52 Weeks of Gratitude With Attitude, Plus Additional Pages to Vent (The link is Amazon because it’s not available via Bookshop.)
Roast Your Greens
Everyone knows to roast their root vegetables but roasting greens is new.
Common sense would indicate that the high, dry heat would incinerate even the toughest of collards, but instead, something much more interesting happens with that little coating of oil.
The Big Problem of Food Waste
Listen to this podcast episode about food waste.
The US wastes a shocking amount of food, roughly 40 percent of the food it produces, much of it perfectly edible and nutritious.
Best Kitchen Tools Under $25
Recently, I used a microplane at work to make lime zest for a simple syrup. A microplane is one of the best kitchen tools under $25.
Have a delicious week,
Nichelle
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