I am a lifelong Californian, and it honestly breaks my heart to say this, but the Golden State has started to feel less like a paradise and more like a very expensive group project. Nobody read the instructions, everyone wants credit, and Gavin Newsom somehow still found time for a photo shoot. So, on June …
If you are creating an Indian feast this summer season, this Bollywood Lemon Rice — Extra Drama, Extra Cashews, is so delicious and easy to create in your rice cooker! You don’t even have to turn on your oven when it’s so hot out in late May! If I’m spending my days sweating in May, …
Pork sausage and pork butt should not be considered “boujie ingredients,” but welcome to life in California over the past ten-plus years, where basic groceries have somehow become a financial commitment. Back in 2012, California voters passed Prop 12 — essentially giving farm animals more real estate than most West Hollywood studio apartments and promptly …
Off-the-Beaten-Path Lake Tahoe — Because the Main Trails Are Basically Disneyland “As it lay there with the shadows of the mountains brilliantly photographed upon its still surface, I thought it must surely be the fairest picture the whole earth affords.” -Mark Twain Mark Twain had obviously never traveled to Lake Tahoe on a holiday weekend. …
I have spent the last twenty years being deeply suspicious of tofu. Not a casual “meh, not my thing” kind of suspicion, but a full-on side-eye from across the grocery store level of fear. After having non-tumorous breast lumps removed in my twenties (TWENTIES, Wow, so long ago) and watching several women in my family …