I’m bordering on being obsessed with my fire escape garden now that the seedlings are becoming full-fledged plants. As the resident green thumb for Brooklyn Based (well, I’m calling myself that anyway), I got to investigate a kind of new “victory garden” in the form of artist Leah Gauthier’s Sharecropper, a summer-long public-art-meets-farming project here [...]

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Since returning to New York in slightly better spirits, I’ve been keeping busy with various, ahem, domestic arts. Good weather makes me want to flee to beach destinations, pull a Holly Golightly, and plan elaborate bike trips with stops at cupcake shops, bbq joints, nature walks and any curious New York site, but it also [...]

Categories: Artsy/Crafty · Foodage

A week ago when the stress of realizing the following–that I have not been healthy since January, that I am overworked, that I never have money, that I have headaches every single day, that I don’t sleep well because of crazy amounts of steroids and all of the aforementioned–I felt as I usually do, on [...]

Categories: Artsy/Crafty · Foodage · Life

We may over-utilize the word “best” to describe our number-ones in life, but there are two recipes of mine that I truly feel earn this superlative: my vegan chocolate cake which happens to be the BEST chocolate cake I’ve ever had (and many others agree, though it’s hard to believe, I know!) and now the [...]

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In case you haven’t noticed, cooking blogs and magazines are comfort food-happy as of late. Spaghetti and meatballs on the cover of Gourmet’s January issue? “Classic comforts we love!” in the February issue of Living, including a ton of cupcake recipes and “hearty winter suppers”? Yep, we want comfort. Stemming from the fact that it [...]

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Pssst: I hear that these little pink heart marshmallows have a crush on homemade hot chocolate. Pssst: I have a really good hot chocolate recipe. Pssst: bring them together this Valentine’s Day! I just made marshmallows (or “schmish schmells” as we call them in our family) from scratch for the first time and I must [...]

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