A Thing Or Two We’re Doing Besides Going Wild With Cherries

Aug 3

Three topics that have warranted recent podcast deep dives: quar fitness, the power of shea butter (with Naa-Sakle Akuete, the founder of Eu’Genia Shea!), and AMBITION. What can we say? We have range. Oh, also: If August is feeling like the right time to join Secret Menu, this month’s newbie subscription dollars will go to the National Birth Equity Collaborative, which is working hard to improve Black maternal and infant health outcomes.

erica’s things

Acquiring 1) the best tortilla chips outside of a restaurant and 2) homemade tortillas in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. Much salsa in my future!!
Downloading an app that IDs the indigenous people whose land I’m on wherever I go.
Adding this site to my baby-gift-shopping go-tos. No, it’s not normal for teethers to be so good-looking.
Taking cherries for a savory joyride.
Flagging a very useful list of book recs for anyone having trouble focusing (so, all of us?).

Wanting to talk, talk, talk all about The Fight, a must-see doc about the ACLU that’s now streaming.
Collecting methods of preserving tomatoes, and this one’s a keeper (other faves include this and this). Don’t toss the oil—put it on eggs, stir it into labne as a dip, mix it with an acid for salad dressing...you get it.
Populating my podcast feed with any show that will make me feel like my weakness for celeb gossip has a pseudo-intellectual bent—welcome, Show Your Work.
Shoveling massive hunks of a cheddar-ish blue cheese in my face and calling it WFH lunch. (Apparently it’s such a thing in the UK that they...made an Easter egg out of it?!)
Offering up some worthy bonus content for anybody else who’s struggling to wait a full week between episodes of I May Destroy You.