Big news! My book, Steeped: Recipes Infused with Tea is now available at Cost Plus World Market. Does your Mom love tea? Does she love to cook? This is the book for her. Inside, I share fresh ways to cook with tea, full of vibrant plant-based recipes like how to make a California Tea Leaf Salad.… Continue reading Mother’s Day Giveaway
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Hey, Now
Writing sometimes resembles wrestling a beast to the ground where the writer’s persistence on the page is rewarded. Rest assured, no animals were hurt in the statement above. Departures in writing can come about innocuously and perhaps some might say are causes of distraction, but I tend to abide by the idea of inhabiting Alice… Continue reading Hey, Now
Spicy Sweet Tea Glazed Chicken with Corn Relish
You get used to 60 degree summers. Somehow, the body in all of its intelligence deduces how to survive in any environs. I visited India twice during the monsoon season of sticky long sleeves with sweat and cotton as air conditioner. I grew up in a place that might sound fictitious with its now “normal”… Continue reading Spicy Sweet Tea Glazed Chicken with Corn Relish
Steeped Book Cooking Class (San Francisco)
Before we continue with our last few weeks of the Summer Reading Series, I wanted to broadcast a PSA. When I deejayed in college, we would give a PSA on the hour of our radio shows as a way to mark time and get out valuable news. In that same spirit, I want to invite… Continue reading Steeped Book Cooking Class (San Francisco)
So Purple You Might Blink
For a long time, I’ve thought about how a poet can only really get away with using words like jacaranda or halcyon in a poem once in their career. But last month, that all changed. Recently, my rental car has had the occasion to zoom down the 605 and 10 on my way to Long… Continue reading So Purple You Might Blink
Steeped Book: Food Allergy Guide
Today’s Steeped’s one month birthday (I wonder if people celebrate books like babies and count the months after cookery conception?) A friend of mine has been posting photos to show how his baby is growing, juxtaposing her next to a gigantic Hello Kitty! doll. To think, one day she will dwarf that kitty. To think, I… Continue reading Steeped Book: Food Allergy Guide
New York: Steeped in Spring
The park was flush with people. Across the street, a fountain bubbled and gargled water while a throng of men in kilts lolled on the sidewalk outside of a bus burping exhaust. It was a Saturday in New York and the sunshine sparkled as a reminder that spring had arrived. My hand had shot into the… Continue reading New York: Steeped in Spring
Steeped Book is Here!
On the eve before school started, my eyelids would flap open not to be easily closed. Try as I might to shut them, excitement coursed through my body and anticipation kept the thoughts bumping along like trams hooked into an electrical current. Have you ever experienced that kind of sensation before? Steeped: Recipes Infused with… Continue reading Steeped Book is Here!
Steeped Book – Cooking with Tea Giveaway
What’s cooking, good looking? If you said tea, you are so right! Namely, a Cooking with Tea kit giveaway valued at $200. Read on below… or click on the orange link above to go directly to the cooking with tea giveaway page and enter for a chance to win. … Continue reading Steeped Book – Cooking with Tea Giveaway
A Tea Cookbook for You
Adequate words do not exist to describe the jumble of emotions that all piled out of my mouth as I caught sight of the padded manila envelope. I’m pretty sure that even before the envelope was wrested from Nathan’s hands, I uttered, “No way!” at least fifteen times amid peals of delight. There might have… Continue reading A Tea Cookbook for You
Bonus Recipes for Hot Tea Month Preorders of Steeped
From where you sit, is it snowing outside? Maybe your sky is just overcast and grey like the one outside my window, but things are heating up inside. Did you know January is national hot tea month? Whoever decided to appoint that designation must have been in between cups two and three of whatever brew… Continue reading Bonus Recipes for Hot Tea Month Preorders of Steeped
Tea Poetry: Announcing My New Steeped Recipes Book
Tucked into a kitchen cabinet, a tin of tea Aspires to what it one day may be— Will it be iced, slicking a glass with cool condensation or will it be brewed into a bracingly hot cup—if you ask me what to do, I will suggest brew it into broth for a warming stew. You… Continue reading Tea Poetry: Announcing My New Steeped Recipes Book