I like wine. Growing up, every Sunday, my sisters, cousins and I would get juice glasses with a little wine with our extended family dinner at my Great Grandmother’s tiny apt in Brooklyn. Now, I’m not a sommelier or any kind of expert, but I know wine, in so much as I drink what I […]
Christmas
Chocolate-Nog Cupcakes from Cheers to Vegan Sweets
This festive Chocolate-Nog Cupcakes recipe is from Kelly Peloza‘s new book Cheers to Vegan Sweets, which features 125 deliciously fun drink-inspired dessert recipes. It’s a cookbook that takes readers on a delicious tour of cafés, cocktail bars, and lemonade stands, where all the drinks come in dessert form. Imagine your morning vanilla hazelnut mocha re-imagined as […]
This Holiday Season, Don’t Be a Butterball
As we head into the season of eating, here is a cautionary tale. A few years ago, my boyfriend’s cousin Marilyn—a meat-and-potatoes lover if ever there was one—underwent open-heart surgery. Five of Marilyn’s coronary arteries were 99 percent clogged, and when the doctors opened up her chest, they discovered that her heart was encased in […]