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Food Questions: Ambrosia

Little Lari is snuggled in a blanket on the carpeted living room floor, watching Xena: Warrior Princess. Xena, the mighty … More

ambrosia, cooking, food, food history, food questions, memories

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💛 "Space." My latest watercolor self-portrait.

🍋Yuzu! The featured illustration for this month's narrated newsletter on yuzu kosho, or yuzu pepper. In this episode, I ponder the question: "What makes food 'good'?"

"Look Closer, Please." Abstract watercolor and black ink, inspired by recent internal "stuff." Experimenting with how far in different directions I can take my watercolors.

🌿Cilantro illustration for my most recent newsletter, "A Diasporican Pantry." It's my most personal essay to date, and traces the history of selected ingredients in the context of Puerto Rican history, interwoven with personal anecdotes. None of us exist in a vacuum--we have different cultural and familial contexts, and I thought I would write about mine.

💜 Few things are as satisfying and calming than an abstract watercolor. Here I am experimenting with Opera Rose feom Winsor+Newton, and I'm in love. That's one of my 2 must-have colors in my palette: the other is Indigo😏

🌾Buckwheat flowers. This piece is featured in this month's RENDERED newsletter. I looked at the history of buckwheat pancakes (#memiljeon, #ployes, #blini, and #galettedesarrasin), what they have in common, and

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