Recipes
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Sardine And White Bean Lunch Bowl
Wild-caught sardines are the cheapest source of EPA and DHA per dollar on the market. Paired with white beans for slow carbohydrates and olive oil for satiety, this is a 6-minute lunch that supports the structural fats your neurons rely on.
Bee Wilson's The Way We Eat Now — Why the Modern Diet Is the Way It Is
Bee Wilson's 2019 book documents how human eating changed more in the last 50 years than in the previous 50,000. The framework is useful; the data is staggering.
The Founder Breakfast in 12 Minutes (or Less)
A practical breakfast framework — five components, three formats, twelve minutes total. Built for the morning where you have no time and no patience.
Dry Farming and Drought-Tolerant Crops — What Climate Change Is Going to Ask of Us
Half the calories you eat probably come from irrigated agriculture. The other half — and increasingly more — will come from dry farming and traditional drought-tolerant crops.
Pesto Chickpea Pasta — Mid-Week 15-Minute Recovery
Pasta you can make at 8pm when the day has destroyed you. Chickpea pasta for protein, jar pesto for speed.
Hoppin' John — A New Year Plate with a West African Heart
Black-eyed peas, rice, smoked pork, and the lineage that connects a New Year's Day plate in Charleston to a Wolof kitchen on the Senegambian coast.
Beans from Scratch — Why the Can Is Underrated and the Pot Is Better
Dry beans cooked at home cost a quarter of canned, taste better, and produce a bean broth that is itself a usable ingredient. The technique fits in a Sunday afternoon.
Greek Yogurt Tuna Salad in Endive Cups
Tinned tuna mixed with Greek yogurt instead of mayo, served in endive leaves. Crunchy, high protein, low calorie.
What to Eat Before a Fundraising Pitch
A pitch is a 30-minute interrogation. Your fuel matters. Here's what to eat 90 minutes before, what to skip, and why.
The Jemima Code — Toni Tipton-Martin's Recovery of Black Cookbook History
Toni Tipton-Martin assembled more than 150 Black-authored American cookbooks dating back to 1827. The shelf is real. The history was always there.
Sheet-Pan Chicken Thighs with Sweet Potato and Brussels
Bone-in thighs, sweet potato cubes, and shaved brussels on one tray — four dinners that hold all week.
Slow-Cooked Sauerkraut — Salt, Cabbage, Patience
Real sauerkraut. Two ingredients. Two weeks. A jar of live-culture, sour, crunchy fermented cabbage that beats anything in a supermarket aisle.