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Very wholesome afternoon with close friends at the #FondationLouisVuitton for the David #Hockney exhibition yesterday!
Last week’s shenanigans
7/7/25
The end to another eventful week and weekend…
- Pics 1-6: Beating the heatwave during a team dinner at Uma Nota, a delicious Brazilian/Japanese fusion place. Passionfruit Ceviche was mindblowing
- Pics 7-10: home life
- Pics 11-13: Streem food market for Le Food Market’s 10-year anniversary
- Pics 14-17: running errands around Rive Gauche
- Pics: 18-19: the Olympic Vask is back this summer. Felt emotional, proud, and nostalgic walking past it!
- Pic 20: singin’ in the rain
- Pic 21: home
Weekend Shenanigans
6/29/25
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Friend’s Birthday Party
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Cityscape
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Discovering a new spot for lunch
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A walk around the Jardins du Luxembourg
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Some more city adventures
Coworkers went out and brought me a Viet Avocado Shake (Sinh To Bo) 😋🥑🥤#heatwave
Some recent food highlights…
6/13/25
Recent food highlights from the past few weeks, mostly at home for these ones:
- Roasted cherry tomatoes, burrata, and chicken
- Summer pasta and a side of salad
- Bagels & Lox
- Chicken Salad
- Honey & Goats Cheese Pizza
- Pandan cake and lemonade from The Hood for their 9th birthday and Pandan Party
- Pumpkin Pancakes and Berries
- Gnocchi
- Grilled skewers on rice
- Spanish tortilla and cheesy eggs
- frankfurters & mac’n’cheese
- and tonight’s couscous gifted and delivered by my daughter’s nanny 🤩
French food / French lunch in a Bistro is truly undefeated, if I do say so myself…

A great time at the #ParisBeerFestival yesterday! Will definitely plan to be back next year :) 🍻
The end to a lovely weekend
Food, it’s good!
Half day in Baltimore’s inner harbor and discovering Pratt Street Farmer’s Market for lunch (aka Charm City)
Wonderful little day out to Annapolis, state capital of #Maryland, today :)
First few days of our holiday with the family in Maryland ☀️ 😊 🍔 🍗 🍺 🇺🇸
Coworker took us out to a mom & pop Colombian restaurant close to the office. OMG it was the real deal!

Fun day out today: friends, bike rides, and long walks in our former neighborhood 🌞 🧑🧑🧒
Coffee & Complexity: climate change is here and affecting our coffee prices
2/17/25
☕️ I recently read an article by my friend @adders (from his apt-titled Coffee and Complexity) about how the climate crisis is affecting coffee prices. It’s something we’ve been noticing for a while now.
As someone who takes their at-home coffee seriously, I’ve seen the prices at my local roaster go up. She mentioned that the cost per kilo has risen above 10€ for the first time in the past 18 months. Despite the increase, brewing coffee at home is still more affordable than buying from a coffee shop or purchasing beans from those same places. And it’s obviously a million times better than office-coffee.
Our daily habits are connected to larger issues but this is a good reminder to appreciate that morning cup even more.





Birthday weekend 3️⃣4️⃣ 🎁
Decided to go to our local German pub for luck today — I realized I haven’t had a delicious currywurst since 2013 (!)
Following up on the previous post:
More and more, the notion of the classic American breakfast—bacon, eggs, toast, milk, coffee, and a glass of orange juice—is beginning to seem like a snapshot of a bygone era. Not only is the supply of orange juice becoming shaky, but so is that of eggs, milk, and coffee (not to mention other goods, such as chocolate and olive oil). None of this means that we’ll have to go without these foods anytime soon. But for everyday Americans, it will likely mean having less.
It’s hard not to look at this with a cynical “the writing has been on the wall, and you could have done something to prevent it but now all you can do is prepare yourselves for a different world you’ll have to adapt to because you’ve acted so unreasonably for so long as a country — and to some extent for at least 2 generations.”
😂 🍊🥤
Imported fruit can be costly, and its flavor varies because of differences in variety, growing conditions, and taste preferences. (European oranges skew tart because locals like their juice sour, while American varieties cater to the nation’s sweet tooth.)
The Last Days of American Orange Juice | The Atlantic

A sunny weekend for the first time since the end of last year!
Been telling y’all to stay away from “zero” and “diet” soda. This shit does more harm than good:
Some of the artificial sweeteners in zero-calorie sodas (…) appear to shift the microbiome in ways that impair the body’s handling of sugar. (There has been) striking declines in microbial diversity. Some of our gut bacteria have disappeared altogether.
This man is my hero:
“The food here is different,” he said in a heavy French accent. “Bigger portions. Too much salt. Too much sugar.” He decided to enroll in a paid study at his wife’s new workplace. It was exploring why the American diet, compared with almost any other, causes people to gain weight and develop chronic diseases”

A quick visual recap of this past holiday season :) (full post on the blog)
Let me tell you: seeing relatives during the holidays without caffeine or alcohol… wouldn’t recommend!
Finally got to check out #DelhiBazaar in Paris 🤩
Some more pics from a very eventful and memorable weekend
🎶 I typically only work 4 days a week, so Fridays are big important family days
Mondays amirite…
Sunday Yum-day
Weekend shots