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summer mems 🩵🌴🌸🌞

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Robyn concert at Barclays

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Cuajimoloyas, Sierra Norte, Oaxaca.
“Just like fungi, we (the forest, Doña Marta, myself) are interconnected now. We will live on with you for the rest of your life.” - @marta_contreras_l
I’m humbled and amazed at life’s greatest teachers—nature and its wise stewards. I left feeling emotional, but mostly grateful, because I got to experience this in my lifetime.
Gracias a la Tierra y sus maestros desde lo más profundo de mi corazón.
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Looking through and being shocked by a rather large trompeta🎺(Turbinellus floccosus)

An opening offering of gratitude/respect (mushroom remnants from previous trips) to the forest, prior to embarking on our foray!

Cacho de venado 🦌 (Ramaria flava)

A giant Reishi that Marta etched my name into

Our lovely group

Despite lack of rain in what is dubbed as “Hongosto” (heavy rains resulting in mushrooms) we found more than enough!

8 species in fact…

Our gracious host offered up chanterelles that she foraged on her ranch

A quesadilla with fried cacho de venado on the cutest plate…

Our mole amarillo ingredients. The cacho de venado and chanterelle mushrooms (semi-pictured)

Our ingredients roasting

Our spices… a mole amarillo paste and our salsa

Heat through fire

Cleaned up mushrooms and tossed them in a bit of oil

Letting the mushrooms simmer mole amarillo and salsa. We used potato to thicken it all up. We also made some chochoyotes, or dumplings, made of potato. Usually, mole is thickened up + chochoyotes are made of maíz, but the altitude/cold of Cuajimoloyas has traditionally been better suited for potato.

Homemade guava agua fresca and our finished dish… which I had multiple servings of!!!

Some tortillas we made (Marta nixtamalizes and grinds her corn… by HAND)

An offering of gratitude. I brought some of the totes I’ve designed as president of the mycology group at NYU for Marta and others! 🍄☮️

The most beautiful kitchen and place

📍Manos Oaqueñas

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🚨Composting in NYC is mandatory as of April 2025. If your landlord is not participating in the program, call 311 and they WILL be fined!🚨

COMPOSTING IS EASY, START TODAY! ♻️🌎💚

Composting has a long, difficult history in NYC and this video does not claim that city composting is the answer. I believe that community composting is even MORE beneficial, but we cannot let perfection be the enemy of good (for now)!

A portion of NYC food waste is currently broken down on Staten Island to make traditional compost (the city gives out free compost in all 5 boroughs) and the other portion is sent off to anaerobic digesters in Greenpoint to produce biofuel (which releases methane as a byproduct) to power our energy grid.

#ClimateAction #Sustainability #CircularFoodSystem #FoodSustainability #NYCfood

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@what.lex.eats @alexacldrn has been doing some amazing work uncovering the world of tortillas through a variety of interviews and research

I was inspired to make a painting based on her visits - this painting outlines snippets of the masa-making process and how the tortiller@s turn the corn kernels into soft, hot tortillas at @sobremasanyc

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this time last year,, happy lunar new year ❤️

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had a fun afternoon in Chinatown with @alexacldrn @what.lex.eats

we started off at Jin Mei Dumplings and got their fried pork and chive dumplings - sooooo yum

then we went to Fok Noodles and got some dan dan noodles 😋

we ended the afternoon/evening with some cheese tarts at Pinklady Cheese Tart - 1 original and 1 black sesame. they were dank

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I won @tziki.souvlaki ‘s olive oil giveaway!!! 🫒

If you haven’t been yet, I strongly recommend checking it out — it’s worth it!!!! 🙌 My absolute favorite things on the regular menu are the tahini wild mushroom souvlaki in a pita, the horiatiki salad, and the beef kebab plate. Truly — you can’t go wrong with anything on the menu here.

#NYC #NYCChelsea #GreekSouvlaki #NYCRestaurant #FoodLover

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* excluding places I’ve already posted about (NYT TOP100) + fresh masa places I will post about later!

These are some of my top New York City bites of 2025. They were each amazing and transformative in their own ways — whether it was blending flavors I would have never thought of combining or just providing a solid meal that left me smiling and reminiscing… 🫶

#NYCFood #NYCRestaurant #NYCFoodLover #FoodLover #FoodInsta

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Fall is my JAM

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In conversation with our local growers 🌱
I had the pleasure of interviewing Zaid Kurdeih of @norwichmeadowsfarm , located in upstate New York, at the @unsqgreenmarket .
Support your local food systems! If you are located in NYC, visit a @grownyc Greenmarket (of which there are 45+) and buy unique, seasonal produce grown by New York farmers.

#NewYorkFarms #LocalFoodSystems #FarmFresh #FarmFreshProduce #SeasonalEating #SeasonalProduce #NewYorkCity #FreshProduce #LocalEconomy #FoodLover #NYCFood

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