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Dec 8, 2025
Plus: a big end-of-year giveaway.
Book Club
Dec 1, 2025
We’ll be doing our first cookbook.
Salon Series
Nov 24, 2025
The question that birthed more questions.
Nov 17, 2025
How to have a veg-centric celebration, with two great cookbook authors.
The Monthly Menu
Nov 14, 2025
Plus: Inspiration from a restaurant salad got us through a rough week at home.
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My next book is out on April 14, 2026.
The culture roundup for this month.
Riding trains, listening to Paul Simon, and turning 40.