In late December, I finally took the plunge and bought a Short Stack Edition. I’ve been intrigued for a while, every time I see them at the Strand — their covers are eye-catching and some of my favorite food people (Molly Yeh, Dorie Greenspan, and Alison Roman, for example) have written for them. On my girlfriend’s suggestion, I picked up Honey, and then it occurred to me that it would be fun to try to cook my way through as much of a book as I could each month of 2019.
Since buying Honey, I’ve become a little obsessed with its author, Rebekah Peppler. I bought her book Apéritif a couple weeks ago, enchanted by the idea of being someone who makes and drinks her own cocktails at home (like my dad — I really feel like I take after him far more than I could ever have expected, but that’s for another post). One of the things I like a lot about Apéritif is that, as Peppler writes at the end, it exists in a world without cishet white men.
This is dreamy at the best of cultural moments, but particularly lately.
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