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Food Travel

Best Cheap Eats for Foodies: Midtown + Times Square, NYC

UPDATED: 10/6/2017 For foodies who travel to NYC and find themselves hungry in Midtown Manhattan do not despair! Avoid the tourist traps and terrible food and head to one of these fantastic cheap eats from Times Square restaurants and food kiosks worthy of your decerning palate. As a native New Yorker I used to avoid Times […]

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Life

Why I Left New York City

For the last year or so, whenever I meet someone for the first time there’s inevitably one question that gets asked: “So, why did you leave New York City?” Although there are many different things that went into my decision to move out of NYC, ultimately it boils down to one idea: I needed to […]

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Food

Hooray for Healthy Breakfast Food Bowls in Denver

Believe it or not, I’m not always shoving my face full of deliciously decadent food. (Even if my Instagram feed leads you to believe otherwise.) Sometimes a girl’s gotta get her “healthy” on. The awesome thing is that in recent years eating healthy is no longer synonymous with eating food that tastes like sawdust. I’ve […]

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Food

Quality Italian Denver: Making Brunch Dreams Come True

I only need three words to describe Quality Italian‘s new brunch menu for you: PASTA. FOR. BREAKFAST. Thank you, Jesus. Last weekend marked the first time the Denver offshoot of Quality Italian started offering their brunch menu and as soon as I saw breakfast pastas on the menu, I nearly lost my mind. Lucky for me, instead […]

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Food

Ugly Produce: Buying Imperfect Fruits and Veggies Is a Beautiful Thing

UPDATE 12/21/2019: Sadly, Grower’s Organic has suspended their GOBOX program. The post that follows is historical information about the GOBOX program. Over the last year I’ve been reading about “ugly” produce — fruits and veggies that are thrown out because they have funny shapes or slight imperfections. Why does this happen in the first place? […]