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Date Night In a Box Review | Easy Like Sunday Morning
*This post is done in partnership with Date Night In, but all thoughts and opinions are 2LWithIt’s* Relationships are work, and anyone that says otherwise is either not in one, or not being honest. I’m not talking like arduous, “is it five o’clock yet?” kind of work, but they’re something you have to commit to […]
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Book Review | Igni by Aaron Turner
Life’s about taking risks, is it not? While the failure rate of a new restaurant isn’t even close to the 90% an American Express commercial recently claimed, it is higher than many startup businesses because restaurants often rely on customers who can spend on meals out. The risk is high – ingredients, retails space, employees, […]
MoreBook Review | Andina by Martin Morales
**WINNERS OF SIGNED BOOK GIVEAWAY ANNOUNCED AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST** If I asked you where “quinoa” and “chia” recipes originated, you’d probably say some health blogger on the internet. While it’s true that superfoods have quite a presence in today’s food scene, they actually date back several thousand years ago to the Andes […]
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Book Review | The Ivy Now by Fernando Peire
A good dining experience is very much like a night out at the theater. There’s an opening act, the starter or appetizer. Then there’s dramatic tension, the meat of the play if you will, the entree. Finally, everything wraps up with a sweet culmination, a dessert or cordial. Amidst all of this there is music […]
MoreBook Review | Délicieux by Gabriel Gaté
If you’re looking to impress dinner party guests, spruce up your cooking skills to wow a significant other, or simply take yourself on a culinary adventure to the French countryside, look no further than Gabriel Gaté’s new book, Délicieux. It is exactly that, delicious. French food is notorious for being difficult to make and oftentimes an all […]
MoreBook Review | Real Food by Mike by Mike McEnearney
Mike McEnearney is an acclaimed Australian chef who pioneered the idea of a ‘physic garden.’ “What’s that,” you ask? Well, it’s an ancient style of medicinal garden that guides natural health such as muscular (ginger, tumeric) gastroenterological (dill, oregano), or neurological (lemon, verbene, chamomile) through the consumption of herbs and plants based on the season […]
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