The following is the first in a series of my (only slightly) edited emails sent to friends and family documenting my anorexia nervosa (AN) rehabilitation, first at Westchester Behavioral Health Center (NYP) and later at the Columbia Center for Eating Disorders at the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI). I…

Dec. 13, 2021 — NY Pres, White Plains hello! i’m here at nyp eating disorder hospital and things are going well and it’s all going quickly. i’m gaining weight, emotionally i feel better, i’m less anxious. at the same time weight gain is physically and emotionally uncomfortable. my stomach just feels like a gassy bowling ball. we’re already…

The following is the second in a series of my (only slightly) edited emails sent to friends and family documenting my anorexia nervosa (AN) rehabilitation, first at Westchester Behavioral Health Center (NYP) and later at the Columbia Center for Eating Disorders at the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI). I…

This story was previously published in 2019 while I lived in Ecuador. My favorite comfort foods are carbs — the kind that are warm, doughy, salty, subtle and singular in flavor and, frankly, bland in color. Humitas satisfy all of these requirements in the best way. They are the cousin…

Vegan eating in Mexico has increased exponentially over the past couple of years. Nine percent of Mexicans identified as vegans in 2017, and just two years later, 20% said they had changed to a plant-based lifestyle. Plant-based eating at home has been relatively easy in Mexico because of the country’s…

In Ecuador, as in many Latin American countries, the ‘almuerzo’ is the axis around which the day spins. It’s generally women who make this all-important daily meal and who, in a national ritual, carve out space to serve this three-course, hot meal between about 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. This…

This is the first article in what I’m calling: ‘Quito Food Blog’. Kinda a plain name, yes, but I’m in the first stages with this venture and wondering myself how it will evolve. The point of the blog — to write about meals, restaurants, street foods, food products (from packaged…