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I am a proud papá, siring new focaccia loaves into this world.

Trying to figure out the best way to document my baking projects, because I complete them mostly at night with bad lighting. Here’s a first attempt at something.

These are the Andes Mint Chocolate Cookies I made my boyfriend for Christmas. Chewy, BIG, and very texturally satisfying. Love a cookie that requires 4+ bites to eat.

I send you a postcard of Pulaski at night

Greetings from Chicago, city of light

ok this pic is ROUGH but these are the first two focaccia loaves I’ve ever made, and they were very special.

How Alix Brown Spends a Sunday

I feel like I’ve crossed paths with her before. Maybe she was on a moodboard I made while I was in college. Maybe she was at that strange fashion week party I attended in 2010, back when going into the city was an all-day event, and I had to carry around the addresses of the places I wanted to visit on a post-it note along with the subway directions to get there.

I distinctly remember walking past — but not going inside — BookMarc, Marc Jacobs’s bookstore (which is, to my great shock, still in business). I also arrived WAY too early to a party held at a Juicy Couture. The shopgirls took pity on me and let me in early. I think… (I THINK?) either Alix Brown or Chelsea Leyland or someone else who I’d read about in Nylon Magazine was DJing this party, because I recall feeling starstruck and flustered by some beautiful person in my peripherals.

This party was also the first time I’d ever eaten a macaron, after only seeing pictures of them on my Bloglovin feed. It was tiny and pink and tasted like bubblegum.

“This amazing ad represents a perfect little punctum in the world of midcentury attentional surveillance, a moment in which the scientific advertisers advertised scientific advertising as…an advertisement. Which is to say, what we have here is an ad for menswear that deploys the datasets developed by an actual eye tracker that had been developed in order to measure the attention value of advertisements!”

— D. Graham Burnett, “Fracking Eyeballs”

In which, I become a superfan of dark chocolate & orange.

“I have always drawn women. I can remember when I was three or four, drawing a Barbie-like character based on my mother, although Barbie Dolls didn’t exist until I was 10 years old.

Two decades later, trying to figure how to support a fledgling fine art career, I created a portfolio of black and white Aubrey Beardsley-inspired women. They emerged from this female character I’d drawn all my life, but now she was sexually amplified by the liberated 60’s, and inspired by choreographer Bob Fosse, master of jazz burlesque choreography.

I was fascinated by the bizarre, exaggerated moves, the bawdy comedy of it. My characters were mentally animated by his dancers, as I drew women in black and white, like the notes on sheet music.”

- Olivia De Berardinis via her bio

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