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View of downtown Chicago skyline from Lincoln Park

Chicago, a Love Letter

by Joseph Hernandez

For the second time in my life, I'll be leaving the city I love most.

January 3, 2019
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View of downtown Chicago skyline from Lincoln Park

Chicago, a Love Letter

Published by Joseph Hernandez

For the second time in my life, I'll be leaving the city I love most.

January 3, 2019
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Dispatch | 11.10.18

Published by Joseph Hernandez

This week has felt like a decade. Between the midterm elections (I worked election night in the newsroom), yet another mass shooting, RBG breaking some ribs and near-continuous attacks...

November 11, 2018
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Richard Olney’s Infuriating Recipe for Mussels

Published by Joseph Hernandez

Richard Olney's "Simple French Food" is a beautiful book, but written in a bitingly straightforward fashion with no sympathy for your lack of skills.

November 5, 2018
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How I learned to love coffee and get over myself

Published by Joseph Hernandez

When I was a freshman in college, I was a little shit. I wanted to trade my former good student, Sunday school volunteer life for something else. College was...

September 26, 2018
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Ate some banana, did some poops, chilling out AF.
When your hubs knows you miss a certain Chicago restaurant (@lulacafe) so makes their classic pasta yiayia. Bucatini with brown butter, cinnamon, crispy fried garlic, whipped feta, lemon zest, and marcona almonds.
Ok but like can we talk about this insane $6 Japanese-style wagyu burger boi for a sec. What a gift.
Commute update: Picked up a new pilea and rubber plant for $10. 🙏🏾🌱
No sad desk lunch today: leftover larb gai and Thai-style eggplant.
Basic but perfect. Scooped up these bbs in my post-commute rush through the Union Square market, but coming back on my lunch for a more leisurely look-see.

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