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Pub Week! Articles, Recipes, and Updates from Tour

what day is it and where am i

carla lalli
Oct 11
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Hello there,

It has been one month and three days since Food is a Feeling came out, and this post—which I started writing on an Amtrak train from Washington, D.C. to NYC in a backwards-facing seat—has been sitting in my drafts for most of that time.

I have a hard time posting a newsletter when I feel like I’ve let my readers down. I feel the need to apologize, I want to make up for my absence, I am mad at myself about screwing up my “content calendar.” Paralysis sets in.

This is exactly what it feels like to start working out again when I’ve been a bad gym bro. If you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready—as the old adage goes. The inverse—if you’ve been gone, you have to come back—is also true. When I returned to the gym post-tour, I was sore in an immobilizing way for the several day(s). At least I went! At least I’m writing!

Ascending at Vestige, in Philly.

Thank you there, Philadelphia, D.C., Detroit, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Austin for coming to the tour events.

If I met you in any of those cities, drop a 💟 in the comments so I know you’re here.

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Today, I’m sharing links to the interviews, essay excerpts, and recipes that have been published since FIAF came out.

All of these recipes are linked below:

Dreaming of Summer Citrus Salad

Lemony Chickpea Stew with Rice

Carla’s Chovy-Forward Fazool

If You Make One Bolognese …

Tuna Pasta For People Who Don’t Count Macros

A Less-Lethal Martini

My Completely Perfect Mezcal Margarita

G&T, Baby

Culinary School Crème Caramel

Just Like an Olive Oil Cake, But with Sesame Instead

Banana Bread with Cocoa and Peanuts

Black-and-Blue Cobbler with Jam Biscuits

Dreaming of Summer Citrus Salad...

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