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Celebrating Spring: Eat, Drink, Be Merry

So many reasons to celebrate Spring. The sunshine, the longer days, the opportunities to dine and play outdoors–without masks! And for the first time in over 30 years, Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Hindus and Baha’is will celebrate their spring holidays at the same time. Ramadan, Passover, Easter, and Vaisakhi are overlapping for the first time since 1991. Purim, Naw Ruz, Vesak…

Upgrade and Refresh for the New Year

This New Year, I won’t be buying any new clothes to refresh my wardrobe–because I’m not going anywhere that isn’t necessary until the waves of COVID subside. But there will be upgrades and refreshers for 2022. I’m upgrading my skincare with a quarterly subscription to The Box By Dr Ava. It’s described as a “Derm in a Box,” and the “Derm” in question is renowned board-certified dermatologist Ava…

Elegant Holiday Meals: It’s Easy

When you see the word “elegant” referring to holiday meals, you may imagine a slam to the budget and a lot of extra work. I expect to stretch my budget a lot (it’s only once a year, I tell myself), but not so much as to work. I’m never looking for a lot of extra work, so for me, an elegant holiday meal simply means, in the words of Emeril Lagasse, “kicking it up a notch.” For my favorite holiday…

  熟悉烹飪，卻同時熱愛新科技的朋友，少不了在廚房會準備一些便利的工具，讓自己料理的過程更為便利，像是近一兩年突然走紅的氣炸鍋，或是能快速處理食材的調理機，以及可控制調理溫度進行均溫慢熟的舒肥機…等，不過其實科技之於料理，其實不僅是創造新的調理方式，而是可以進一步將過去我們經常用到的不同功能透過整合方式「化繁為簡」，也同樣會是提高料理效率的好方法。而今年在知名群暮平台「嘖嘖」上架的「 ChopBox 5合 1 智慧殺菌竹砧板」，正是體現這樣思維的有趣產品。

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