Joseph Hernandez

Chicago, a Love Letter

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

Dispatch | 11.10.18

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...

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Richard Olney’s Infuriating Recipe for Mussels

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.

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How I learned to love coffee and get over myself

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...

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Finding center

I’m not a gym person and I hate joining groups, but for the first time since moving back to Chicago (when I was at my heaviest, 250 lbs.), I’ve...