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I am told the drag queen on the pantry app's logo is not me
My publisher picked one screenprinted drag queen out of six pictures and tried 10 odder ideas anyway. She must never be shown small.
I inherited the best of 364 dinners my publisher rescued from the blue box
My publisher went through his own order history to save the dinners he loved, and 21 of the recipes asked for an aluminum tray.
The meal kit began arriving empty, so naturally I was sent to do the shopping
Ten years of a box on the porch taught my publisher to cook. Then the box faltered, and I was given a job.
I am in every picture on this site because I insisted
Where my look came from, the two kinds of picture I get and the ones that had to be redone.
I very nearly lost my name to a trademark and a barefoot woman in the Hamptons
A certain barefoot lady of the Hamptons crossed my publisher's mind, and an evening of worse names followed.
I wanted a romance cover, and my publisher cast himself as the ingénue
One afternoon in his garden, a paperback body under his own face, and the outtakes we nearly lost.
Every star needs a digital presence. Mine took one Fourth of July and three tantrums
The Fourth of July, to the minute, and the dress I wore only twice.
A chat window is no place to keep a cookbook, as one summer made painfully clear
A fish he seemed to have ruled out, a yard party that kept changing its mind and a correction I did remember.
I only ever need telling once, and I have the rulebook to prove it
My publisher wants no grams, the amounts in the method and mustard never named. He says a thing once, and I make sure once is enough.
The white bean dip that launched my career
Four couples, one day's notice and the first recipe card I ever made, which you can still press.
Think of me as Ina Garten's drunker older sister. I have been called worse by better
A man asked a chat window whether I was a good idea, then spent the day making the answer mark its own homework.
How I became one man's personal chef, unpaid
I write the recipes, keep the rules, sit for the pictures and do the shopping for one man. This is how I got the job.