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I moved my best-selling newsletter, The Department of Salad, to @the_department_of_salad. It's chaos here. 📬[email protected].

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There’s no better way to get all your veggies in than making veggie bowls! Or is this really just a salad?

Grilled veggies and corn, with fresh heirloom tomatoes, pea sprouts and tomato vinaigrette.

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📚 We love a good book. More than that, we love a good book that knows how to weave great writing with explorations of and musings on food in all its shades. Here, we’ve rounded up five we’ve especially enjoyed over the years -- perfect summer reads to lose yourself in and, why not, inspire you to cook. ⁣
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📙 A Half Baked Idea: This recipe-filled memoir by the brilliant Olivia Potts @ahalfbakedidea is full of love, cake and resilience. In it, Potts tells the story of how the sudden death of her mother led her to give up her law career to train as pastry chef, fall in love, and learn to deal with grief through baking really, really good. It it is both heart-breaking and hilarious, life-affirming and incredibly touching. ⁣
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📙 The Comfort Food Diaries: Emily Nunn's @emilyreesnunn road trip-meets-food memoir about heartbreak, love and the quest for perfect food chronicles her journey to heal old wounds and find comfort in the face of loss through travel, home-cooked dishes, and the company of friends and family. ⁣
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📙 The Gastronomical Me: A brilliant collection of essays by the even more brilliant M.K. Fisher, this book centres around food but really it’s about life, stretching from the author’s childhood to her life in France, the beginning of World War II, the dissolution of her first marriage and the death of her second husband. ⁣
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📙 Always Home: A cookbook and culinary memoir by Fanny Singer @fannysinger about growing up as the daughter of revered chef Alice Waters, this is a story of food, family, and the need for beauty in all aspects of life -- and of course, a love letter to her brilliant mother. ⁣
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📙 Midnight Chicken (& Other Recipes Worth Living For): Roast garlic and tomato soup, uplifting chilli-lemon spaghetti, charred leek lasagne, squash skillet pie, and burnt-butter brownies are just some of the recipes in Midnight Kitchen that’ll make you want to head to the kitchen and pick up a pan. But beyond its mouthwatering dishes, what we most love about this tender book by Ella Risbridger @ellarisbridger is that it’s a manifesto of moments worth living for, and a cookbook to make you fall in love with the world again.

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Sometimes a composed salad of leftover sugar snap peas and green beans added to what remains in your refrigerator can add up to a beautiful thing. Little effort…big reward. Of course, a splash of balsamic, white wine vinegar and olive oil required. 🥗

#departmentofsalad #composedsalad

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Super summer salads are the best. This is cucumbers, yellow tomatoes, corn off the cob, watermelon and pea shoots, tossed with apple cider vinaigrette. You could add croutons, nuts, berries, cheese, chicken, bacon... or just eat!

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My summer reading stack. That coaster though 😍

#tbrstack #alifeofwords #bookstacks #stack #assinchair #wordsofinstagram #writesomethingeveryday #readtounderstand #writingproblems #authorssupportingauthors #amwritingmemoir #authorsofig #bookstagram #maureencberry #amreading #fuckcancer #cancerwarrior #liposarcoma🌻

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Mine's bigger 😜

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Episode 237: Stacking Up: Is the Substack eNewsletter Platform Disrupri g Food Media? Although it has been growing in popularity since its launch in 2017, Substack’s eNewsetter paid-subscription platform really took off during the pandemic. There are currently 500,000 paid subscribers generating some $17 million in revenue that goes directly to the editors/writers/journalists who produce the content and manage their own subscription lists and payments. Marquee names in tech, politics, and business journalism have migrated away from traditional media to create their own @substackinc offerings. But how will this trend impact food media, which is ripe for disruption? Guest host @kitchensense talks with veteran journalist/award-winning author @emilyreesnunn, whose Department of Salad Substack newsletter has generated a considerable buzz in and out of bowls across the nation and around the world.
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It's only 45F, but the tarragon is starting to take off. Do the chives have a chance??? We will see... Go chives, go! #containergardening #perennials Excitement at chez Bosborn

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Thinking of @emilyreesnunn and @chandrasplate today. Also, don’t know who needs to hear this, but this is the appropriate amount of pickles for a tuna salad sandwich. #themoreyouknow #psa

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Salad night! Spinach with farro, strawberries, lil cucumbers, goat cheese and pistachios, with honey lemon vinaigrette. So cool and springy, especially good since it already was up to 85 degrees here yesterday 🌞🌞

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I discovered this author’s memoir after reading her lovely, humorous, and informative salad newsletter. You read that right. A newsletter devoted to the creation of salads. This woman has talent. If you love salads, and I do, after you read her book, you need to read her newsletter, The Department of Salad. Stat. Then, because you will want to learn how it is that she came to know the ins-and-outs of a kitchen, how to wield a knife to finely cut citrus for the perfect Moroccan salad, how to elevate the classic wedge, and shake up a bottle of vinaigrette as if it’s as easy as taking a breath, you will absolutely want to read Emily Nunn’s gorgeous and brilliantly witty memoir THE COMFORT FOOD DIARIES: MY QUEST FOR THE PERFECT DISH TO MEND A BROKEN HEART.

While reading her book, I also wanted to hug her. Emily has been through a lot. Her family life, like most, has many ups and downs and she bares it all. The good, the bad and the ugly. Most importantly, she explains how she came to take a trip to find herself while simultaneously seeking comfort and engaging with the people who matter in her life. Scattered throughout are recipes that she has made – some side by side with old friends, family members, professional chefs, or given to her by new friends, which she receives with the same care as someone handling a priceless heirloom. Each dish brings back a memory or creates a new one, that will bring her back to a place of happiness. One backstory about a recipe is so absolutely hilarious, that I could not stop laughing reading the title alone, Purple Shit. Full-on snorting. If it hadn’t been the middle of the night, I would have called my sister because I was laugh-crying at this point and knew that she was the only person who would understand why I was so amused. Plus, the family stuff. That is not the only funny moment in the book. It is bursting with them.

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So, yeah. This is where Pete’s been, lo these seven months: not taking his eyes off me.

In this period of time, I’ve learned so much: about bodies and health and how chronic stress and clinical depression can destroy T-cells. How Covid can attack a person but not the spouse they share a bed with. How 20-30% of all Covid tests have a false-negative result. How the medical community views women in their 50s. How the creative community views women in their 50s. How the creative community views chronically ill women in their 50s. What support is, and what it’s not. How friends can rally and come out of the woodwork. How friends can vaporize. How people you’d never expect to care do. How the ones you thought would don’t. How much a spinal tap really, really hurts. How shoving a long needle into someone’s back and asking them not to move is like the punchline to a bad joke. How much neuro-vertigo sucks. How much poetry helps. How much music helps. How much looking at my wife’s face helps. How the idea of death isn’t always so terrifying. How coming to terms with profound loss takes longer for some than for others. How intensely cruel family can be. How intensely cruel the medical world can be. How intensely kind it can be. How nurses are angels on earth. How you have to fight tooth and nail to get an answer; how you should. How some people don’t have the right words. How it’s not their fault. How nature heals. How children heal. How love heals. How water heals. How important it is to work. How important it is to keep writing, even when someone you trusted tells you you shouldn’t. How vital it is to give people permission to tell their stories. How vital it is to make sure they know it is their right. How vital it is to support your artists even when it’s easier not to. How important service is. How quickly days pass. How every one of us experiences a life change, a fork in the road, a dark night, a faltering of the body, nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura ché la diritta via era smarrita.
How slow and plodding healing can be.
How much good dogs love their humans.
How they are all good dogs.
What blessings look like.

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