Welcome to a very special cat of the week! This week we are blessed with not one animal but two! Meet Luigi and Bandito, better known as Pug and Cat, who live with their humans, Finn and Sebastian. Pug and Cat are quite popular, and can be followed and obsessed over at their website, Pug and Cat, and on Instagram @pugandcat.
Read MoreHere at Gateau | Gato, we love nachos. LOVE them. When we're together, if we aren't cooking, photographing, writing or editing, there's a pretty good chance we're drinking beer and wine, respectively, eating nachos and talking about the scorched dessert that is the New York dating scene. What is it about nachos that makes them such happy food? How did we get so lucky, to have this amazing dish on offer at most bars with a happy hour? Do they come from the heavens with the angels and scary babies and whatnot?
Not exactly, but their history is still pretty cool!
Read MoreIt's no surprise that there's science backing nostalgic smells, but if you ask me, nostalgic tastes are just as real. Home Run Inn frozen pizza meant sleepovers at my best friends house. Minute Maid Frozen Lemonade cups were exclusively eaten at Detroit Pistons games. Of course stuffing was for crisp Michigan Thanksgivings and chocolate chip cookies were for Friday night dinners. But when I think of Rosh Hashanah, my mind immediately goes to my mom's delectable cinnamon noodle kugel.
Read MoreWelcome to cat of the week! This week we are joined by the cutest, grayest Scottish Fold, Romeow. Romeow lives with his human in the San Francisco Bay area, as well as some other furry friends. You can follow their adventures on Instagram @romeow.the.fold.
Read MoreAh, fall. The changing colors of the leaves, the infamous PSL, the crisp sweater weather, the flannel.
And if you're in the Jewish community, a fuck ton of holidays.
Read MoreWelcome to Baker's Dozen! This week we have a burlesque festival, pizza body language, naturally pink chocolate and more.
Read MoreDo you guys ever have those days where you just need a reset? I'm talking about a did-I-really-drink-that-much-beer-and-then-drunk-eat-late-night-pizza-with-my-friends night followed by a concession stand dilemma between M&Ms and Butterfinger bites where your brother tells you to "just get both." By Monday, my body was screaming for something healthy to fuel me for my work outs (I'm looking at you, row class), nourish me past the 2 o'clock slump (keep me away from those vending machines!!) and just get back on the wagon.
Read MoreWelcome to cat of the week! This week, we are graced by the presence of two beautiful Italian Birman brothers, Leo and Teo! At just a few months old, they're already taking the world by storm. They live in Milan with their humans and can be followed on Instagram @leo_e_teo.
Read MoreMy junior year in Tel Aviv was the first time I had a kitchen of my own. Apart from the summer spent in an absorption center in Ashdod while volunteering on ambulances (whose kitchen consisted of a sad hot plate, a sad counter and a sad toaster oven), that was the first time I had a space to cook for myself. And what did I do to inaugurate this life's milestone?
Ate nothing but hummus and cucumbers on toast.
Read MoreWelcome to Baker's Dozen! This week we have an amusement park devoted to Italian food, "this is your brain on pizza," creepy phone scammers and more.
Read MoreBack in college, most members of the Michigan Jewish community committed themselves to the boxed Duncan Hines brownie mix. For one thing, it didn't have any dairy ingredients (suspicious, I know), so if you kept kosher, you could get away with having both your Shabbat dinner chicken and your sweet tooth. But, I'm pretty sure those boxed mixes were laced with something kind of addictive artificial chemicals because we made our way through a tin brownies in the matter of a few hours, especially if said brownies were undercooked. It was a dangerous addiction I knew I had to put an end to.
College is never a time of food connoisseurship for anyone, naturally. I think most people spend their college years shuffling in and out of the kitchen, trying not to burn their popcorn and avoiding the dishes piling up in the sink. After three years of the above, I finally discovered my love for baking senior year. Once I realized a boxed brownie mix wouldn't cut it, I started experimenting with other non-dairy dessert options for my more religious friends. But the truth was, there was nothing like a real, dairy-filled dessert - especially one swirled with stuff.
Read MoreWelcome to Cat of the Week! This week we are joined by two adorable gray fluffs named after two delicious snacks, Small Fry and Poutine! These so-called taters live with their mama, Hannah, and Mochi, the albino hedgehog. They were rescued by the Kitten Lady (who you should definitely check out if you don't know her, the work she does with rescuing kittens is unbelievable and magical). You can follow their adventures on Instagram @smallfryandpoutine.
Read MoreSometimes I like to cook lavish meals for friends - I'll spend hours in the kitchen making multiple courses with ingredients I definitely spent too much money on. I'll experiment with flavors and try new things, and feel like a total mad kitchen scientist.
Other times, I truly cannot be bothered.
Sometimes Shabbat dinner ends up being sushi or pizza delivered by very nice Seamless people. Other times, we pull an Olivia Pope and eat popcorn and have a bottle of wine each. These meals are eaten in leggings, sweatpants and amorphous sweaters. It is actually frowned upon to show up to a meal like this wearing pants with a button or zipper.
Read MoreWelcome to Baker's Dozen! This week we have a Kitty-Tiki Party, a love affair with an unpopular popsicle, avocado thieves and more. Read all about it down below.
Read MoreI really hate mayo. Like, I just hate it so much. Actually, most squidgy, gelatinous, off-white substances freak me out. If I had a nickel for every time I heard "that's what she said" after a statement like this, I wouldn't be rich because inflation is REAL, but I would have a pretty hefty chunk of change.
What would I do with said hefty chunk of change? I'm not sure, but I can tell you what I wouldn't do: BUY MAYO.
I just don't get it. Why ruin a perfectly delicious sandwich with a slathering of this sad, strange substance? My freshman year of college some friends and I did a late-night Jimmy John's delivery when we were all totally sober and my veggie delight sandwich had been smeared with mayo by mistake. Veggie delight my ass. I gave it to a friend who ate it gleefully, while I slumped on the couch and rued the day mayo was ever created.
Read MoreWelcome to cat of the week! This week we are graced by the presence of two beautiful blues, Mitsie and Beer. These fluffs live with their mama, Aurora, in the Netherlands. You can follow all of their adventures on Instagram at @missesmitsie.
Read MoreThe year before I moved to Tel Aviv, I spent a summer volunteering as a first-responder with Magen David Adom, the Israeli ambulance service. You might envision me delivering babies and reattaching limbs, but legally first-responders were allowed to take blood pressure and pulse and that's about. I did get to check the blood sugar of a man who had taken 8 Valium, though. My ambulance driver was pretty rebellious.
Read MoreWelcome to Baker's Dozen! This week we have amazing events in September (how is it September already?), vodka made from literal trash, feminist theory explained through pizza and more.
Read MoreThis recipe is whole-heartedly dedicated to my favorite dairy free/gluten free lady, my cousin, Miki. She spent 17 days of her 3 month adventure in South East Asia with me exploring northern Vietnam, Laos and Chiang Mai, Thailand. Easily, one of my favorite parts of the world, I was doubly as excited about Southeast Asia because Miki could eat practically everything there. Rice noodles, coconut milk - these dairy and gluten alternatives were perfect! We ate so many bowls of pho I lost count, and guzzled what can only be considered the world's best smoothies, but the treat that really took the cake (coconut cake, that is) was the Khao Nom Kok.
Read MoreWelcome to cat of the week! This week we are graced by the presence of Picasso, a beau chat who lives in France with his mama, Victoria. You can follow Picasso's adventures on Instagram at @cutecat_picasso.
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