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Finding center

by Joseph Hernandez

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 plateaued. With that in mind, I finally motivated myself to do something I’ve always wanted to do but was scared to: Signed up for a hip hop dance class, where I’ll hopefully twerk off the...

January 13, 2018
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Finding center

Published by Joseph Hernandez

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...

January 13, 2018
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The Unapologetic Lightness of Being

Published by Joseph Hernandez

I went in with my usual bundle of nerves. I'm not good enough to be with these people. My writing is shit. Why am I bothering? What if they don't...

November 16, 2017
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Fuck your crayons!

Published by Joseph Hernandez

These days, choosing between the closet or being out is more akin to sitting quietly and coloring within the lines with only gray crayons, or saying “fuck you” to...

October 12, 2017
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BeRoll, Vol. 1

Published by Joseph Hernandez

"They used to be named Special and Delight, but they sounded like retired strippers."

October 2, 2017
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Humid summer nights are made for juicy, frozen grapes.
A super nova in the form of heirloom tomatoes, coaxed and tamed into Francis Lam's summery pasta, with a supporting cast of pasta-wilted bitter greens, feta, and slivered onions. That's it: 8 min to boil water and chop tomatoes, 7 more minutes to cook/drain pasta and toss it all together in one giant bowl. Live your best life and add all the cheese you see fit.
Apparently sharing the #cookingugly Imperfect hashtag equals five donated pounds of produce to a local food bank, so here we are: hashtag cooking ugly or whatever. (Ugh, marketing, amirite?) Not that it really matters, but the "ugliest" thing we've received so far is that green pepper bud there in the middle. Most of the stuff we've received the last few months is clearly overstock, but has for better or worse been a nice time saver (stocking the fridge with regular essentials, without leaving the house). This concludes my ambivalent non-endorsement! My weekly veggie box is fine! At best!
No more pizza ever again. (Peep my story.)
Never underestimate the power of emergency conservas (in this case, Moroccan sardines in a chile-tomato sauce) to up the flavor quotient of a mediocre chickpea salad on toast.
Tahini chocolate chip cookies today in the Test Kitchen.

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