Every spring, ramps return with the energy of a limited drop. This week’s post is about the wild leek, the legend, and the politics around who gets access, who gets priced out, and how quickly seasonal desire can turn into excess. #FoodCulture #Ramps open.substack.com/pub/tasteful...

I said I wasn’t making a recipe. Anyway… chow became chutney 😭 #TastefullyCandyce #FoodCulture #SeasonalEating #FlavorLab #Condiments #Recipes open.substack.com/pub/tasteful...

I thought I knew what almonds tasted like. Turns out… I didn’t. Green almonds, diaspora, seasonality, and the politics of what we eat. New piece just dropped. #FoodPolitics #SeasonalEating #TastefullyCandyce #FoodCulture #DiasporaFood open.substack.com/pub/tasteful...

I made this with homemade butter and… I fear I’ve changed as a person #FoodPolitics #TasteCulture #FoodWriting #SpringRecipes open.substack.com/pub/tasteful...

The Easter carrot isn’t random. It’s a symbol shaped by medieval poverty, Dutch nationalism, wartime propaganda, and a cartoon rabbit that lied to everyone. Food becomes politics. Politics becomes culture. New piece 👇🥕 open.substack.com/pub/tasteful...

So mâche doesn’t look like a political ingredient…but neither do most things that carry history Obviously I wrote about it 🌿 Check it out: open.substack.com/pub/tasteful...

mâche 🌿
soft, buttery, unbothered kale could never #foodtok #ingredienttok #tastefullycb #greens #foodwithpersonality

This shouldn’t work, but it does… Pineberry chutney with lemon, vanilla, and Calabrian chilli… try it, it’s wonderfully surprising! #recipes open.substack.com/pub/tasteful...

What if the problem isn’t the fruit… but what we expect it to be? I wrote about pineberries today, check it out if you’re curious! open.substack.com/pub/tasteful...

Mandarinquats look like citrus fan fiction. So naturally I turned them into brown butter vanilla curd. Recipe and kitchen story below. open.substack.com/pub/tasteful...

Have you ever heard of a mandarinquat? I might turn these into curd… #citrus #fooddiscovery #farmermarketfind #foodtok #fruit

Somehow I’ve ended up down a fascinating rabbit hole about mandarinquats. They look like a tiny mandarin & kumquat baby & somehow taste like both. I wrote about them this week and currently testing a mandarinquat recipe for Sunday. Check it out if you’re interested! open.substack.com/pub/tasteful...

This week I learned: • every navel orange is a clone
• a man spent 40 years matchmaking fruit trees
• pineberries taste like pineapple but look like ghost strawberries The produce aisle is stranger than we think. I wrote about hybrid fruit 🍓 open.substack.com/pub/tasteful...

Kiwi berries are out here getting rejected at borders like exes without visas. Even tiny fruit isn’t safe from trade policy and paperwork. #foodpolitics #kiwiberries #globaltrade #tastefullycandyce

Every Monday night, Samin Nosrat cooks for some of her closest friends. She used to let the pressure of impressing her loved ones with a spectacular spread get in the way of her having a good time. But she's learned to enjoy hosting with these tips.

Breakfast shouldn’t be this seductive… but here we are. 🍳 Toasted pita, a lake of hummus, one reckless sunny egg and a scandalous spoonful of chili garlic crisp. This is your sign to become that breakfast person. #breakfasttok #eggtok #hummustoast #chilicrisp #drippyeats #comfortfood #easyrecipes

Okay, so… I may have just invented the most unexpected marshmallow ever. 🍋 Soft, pillowy, and made with my mum’s old-school method—but flavored with ponzu, miso, lemon zest, and vanilla. Sweet meets savory meets umami. Would you try it? #marshmallows #foodie #ponzu #sweetandsavory #homemade

It starts here… with tomato leaves you’d never expect to use. Steeped, sweetened, and transformed into a jelly that tastes like summer in a jar. 🌱 #JamMaking #JellyMaking #Condiments #TomatoLeaf #CulinaryCurious

Strange Pairings, Good Stories🥤📘 Today’s lineup “There Are Rivers In The Sky” + Strange Water on the balcony. Daisy wanted a cameo, but the bees had casting rights. 🐶 🐝 #Books #BookClub #BalconyReads #SundayReadingClub

My dog thinks kohlrabi is a toy. Honestly? She’s not wrong. In the U.S., this vegetable gets treated like an alien when in Germany or India it’s just… Tuesday dinner. #CSABox #FarmToPeople #FoodPolitics #Foodie #Dinner

Your bagel isn’t just breakfast. It’s migration, culture, and politics baked in. 🥯 #FoodPolitics #Bagels #Foodie

This isn’t a plum… it’s a pluot. A patented hybrid in plastic packaging that shows how capitalism touches even your fruit. Sweet, huh? 🍑✨ #Pluot #FruitWithAStory #FoodPolitics #CapitalismOnTheTable #Fruits #Foodie

Love a good Taiwanese breakfast from Win Son Bakery. Fan Taun is really good. Have you ever tried this? It’s the ultimate Taiwanese burrito. Sticky rice wrapped around pork floss, egg, scallions and fried dough (you-tiao).

Farm to People tote haul: kohlrabi, plums, kale & bok choy—approved by Daisy 🐶✨ Beyond dinner, it’s a vision for a local, fair food system: reusable infrastructure, fresh produce in every city, farms supported nationwide. That’s real change.