Vegan Cookie Dough Ice Cream

ELECTION ANXIETY COOKIE DOUGH ICE CREAM (VEGAN).

We are T-minus three days until it’s officially midterm Election Day, but the frenzy has been in full force for, well, two years? More? Regardless, here we are. We are older, wiser, and better equipped to actively participate in the…
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Earl Grey Fig Ice Cream

EARL GREY FIG ICE CREAM.

This ice cream has been on my to-do list for over a year. Figs don’t come round all that often in their prime, so testing kept getting shoved off for the more usual, perennial suspects: avocado toast salad, poppyseed banana…
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Hibiscus Mint Strawberry Sorbet

HIBISCUS MINT STRAWBERRY SORBET.

Hello from a plane zipping over the North Pole en route from Paris back to LA. What a week. I’ve been to Paris, London, and back to Paris again (for a brief hour and a half, during which I devoured…
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Watermelon Coconut Slushie

WATERMELON COCONUT SLUSHIES.

This post was created in partnership with Naked Juice for #DrinkGoodDoGood. All opinions are my own—including that #DrinkGoodDoGood is an easy and fun way to help combat food deserts in your community. It’s my favorite time of the summer: when, out…
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Chèvre Cherry Buttermilk Ice Cream

CHEVRE CHERRY BUTTERMILK ICE CREAM.

This post was created in partnership with Vermont Creamery. All opinions are my own. Last night, I gathered with twenty-two women in a grassy backyard under a stormy sky that threatened rain but never delivered. The air hung in damp…
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Cardamom Lime Cantaloupe Granita

CARDAMOM LIME CANTALOUPE GRANITA.

One of the questions that arises most often when I tell people about the Kale & Caramel cookbook’s blend of food and storytelling—and, in particular, its stories of death and grieving—is why? Why write about death and food? Why talk about grief and…
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Vegan Banana Pudding Pops

VEGAN BANANA PUDDING POPS.

Popsicle Week has arrived, my friends, and not a moment too soon. It’s been sweltering in California, and this veritable food holiday couldn’t be better timed—who isn’t ready for a popsicle-shaped 4th of July, replete with sticky-sweet icy juices flowing?…
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Lavender Peach Ice Cream

LAVENDER PEACH ICE CREAM.

The first thing I notice, always, is the air. It lands differently on my skin here—heavier, weighty with humidity and ocean and the scent of weather that changes in an instant. In my five minute walk from the open-air baggage claim to the…
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SPARKLING PEAR & BOURBON SORBET.

This post was created in partnership with Zevia. All opinions are my own. It’s finally cozy weather here in LA! In point of fact, I am wearing both a sweater AND a jacket at this very moment, and am choosing…
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SALTED TAHINI BANANA STRACCIATELLA ICE CREAM.

I’ve always loved surprises, though I don’t think I’ve ever told this to anyone. It’s a little secret I’ve held between my ribcage and my lungs and my heart. The idea of someone going to considerable effort to surprise me…
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