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Recipe: Persimmon Upside Down Cake

The past month has been a wonderful whirlwind in my home life. I got married at the end of October and left for Japan shortly after. We planned our honeymoon to be a mix of our interests: food, markets, tea culture and tea farming, traditional agricultural practices, and garden design. He’s a landscape architect, I’m a cook. We meet in the middle around the kitchen table and tea table to …

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Recipe: Grilled Corn & Cilantro Salad

It’s Labor Day weekend here in the US, a time where many are savoring the last moments of summer and feasting with family and friends. And corn seems to be a standout dish on many holiday weekend menus.

This week, I spent a day with my dear friend Kelsey Lea of Island Veda, who’s also the Ayurvedic chef of our upcoming Mexico Ayurveda Retreat. We’d texted for days over …

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Travels: Southern Portugal Guide

Have you heard the news? I’m hosting a retreat in Southern Portugal with three other amazing teachers this October and our team has put together a curated travel guide of the region to share our favorite places to eat, stay and play. Download the full guide here!

The retreat is a 6 day/5 night immersion into the heart of Ayurveda. Each day is centered around …

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Travels: San Francisco Guide

To give you a truly “complete” guide of San Francisco/Bay Area may be a near impossible feat or might require me to live a decade in the city to uncover all the culinary gems and underground spots to explore. Until that happens, I’ve been visiting the city enough in the past few years to have established my tried-and-true favorite spots I hit every time I go for a quick …

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Travels: New Mexico Guide

If there’s a place in the US I could call my spirit land, it would be New Mexico. Call me Georgia (O’Keeffe, that is), there’s something wild and free about the expansive open skies with endless horizons of white billowy clouds, the soft colors of sage contrasting the sun-bleached coral adobes, and the pervasive stillness that all captivates my heart. New Mexico is an endless outdoor playground with plenty …

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Travels: Essentials for Balanced Travel

Born a double Sagittarius and raised by two pilots, my life has been filled with travel before I could even walk. Because of this, I’ve also had to be conscious of the potential for my body and mind goes out of balance from the abundance of change and stimulation that comes with the wanderlust experience. To kick off this new series on Journal, I’m sharing my essential tools for …

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