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ROSEWATER PISTACHIO CAKE TRIFLE WITH ROASTED APRICOTS + WE’RE HAVING A BOOK BABY!

Everyday when I came home from school, I’d sit down at the small, 1980’s-infused particle board desk in our tv room, turn on our modular gray Apple computer, open up a new document, and write a short story. I…
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MATCHA-SPIRULINA GREEN MILK!

Though departures may occur all at once physically, they are rarely emotionally complete in that same instant. Instead, we leave places slowly, draining ourselves from them a bit at a time, as our hearts and our minds gradually lose their…
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TOASTED PEPITA GUACAMOLE.

Before you are even really awake, before alertness has settled down into your mind, walk outside. Walk barefoot. Walk out onto the deck, down the stairs, down onto the grass. Walk over the rocks and the leaves, toes gripping and…
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WASABI CREME FRAICHE POLENTA WITH SOY SESAME VEGGIES.

This city is drenched in Prince and LEMONADE. In the past week, I’ve heard nothing but Beyoncé and The Artist Formerly Known As pouring from every window. LA, as are so many other pockets of the nation, is dripping in…
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LEMONY ZUCCHINI CAKE WITH GOAT CHEESE FROSTING FROM LAYERED.

I think my first cake-making fever struck sometime in the middle of high school, a result of that heady mix of sexual frustration, boredom, and hormones otherwise known as being a teenager. Though it could have also been pure culinary…
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KALE SALAD PIZZA WITH CARAMELIZED FENNEL, SHALLOT & FETA.

Today is Earth Day! In honor of Earth Day, and of my commitment to celebrate (and grow my own!) kale with Naked Juice, I want to tell you a story about a garden. A secret garden, in the middle of…
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PEANUT BUTTER CHOCOLATE CHUNK BARS WITH SALTED CHOCOLATE DRIZZLE.

For a day and a night, the wind moved like it had to blow to keep the earth turning. It was not particularly cold or warm, not a sultry Santa Ana or whatever other sexily named wind that blows in…
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ROASTED FENNEL & BURRATA TOAST.

When I finally made it home—my Maui home, my Ulupalakua home, my home in the middle of nowhere on the slopes of Haleakala—I completely collapsed. I stopped answering texts. And phone calls. And emails. I cooked for the first time…
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CLUMPY GRANOLA BOWL WITH STEWED RHUBARB & YOGURT FROM CHICKPEA FLOUR DOES IT ALL.

Something in the shock of death made me rebellious. I had never been rebellious before—rebellion seemed too risky, too much of an affront to the possibility of being accepted. My teenage years were full of dance rehearsals, AP exams, learning…
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