This holiday season, I’ve been exploring coffee-forward Italian baking! Read on for my best Biscotti, Tiramisu, Gelato, and Affogato recipes

Join me for restorative heart-opening yoga and a mindful chocolate tasting!

My Mexican baking challenge: one month, one cake, one drink, each two ways. Read on for how to make Tres Leches and Hot Chocolate.

Medi-Tasting is the new concept that pairs mindfulness with wine. How does it work? And how else can we bring mindfulness to wine-tasting?

In this article, I share my conversation with Becky Morris, founder of Celebrated vegan bakery. Becky Morris believes in indulging in...

Baking homemade granola is a delicious, easy, and inexpensive way to start any day. Here is my favorite recipe… Major life changes have...

Here’s a peek into my favorite specialty coffee shops in Paris. Last summer, needed desperately to decompress from a failed PhD program...

For the final Paris specialty coffee feature, I sat down for coffee with Caroline, France’s Champion Barista and Wholesale Manager at...

For this Paris specialty coffee feature, I sat down with Thomas, the co-founder of La Fontaine de Belleville to discuss his mission to...

The Winter 2018 issue of Gastronomica features my research paper “A Tale of Two Cities: Differences in Wine-Drinking Culture in Nice and...

Each family has their eccentricities, and mine has many. After moving away from home, I have grown to accept the things that I will never...

As a child, I swore I would never drink coffee. I would plug my nose and hide my 5-year-old body behind my father’s long legs as he...

As a child, chocolate was my weapon of choice. I lived with desserts on lock-down in a nutrition-conscious home. I nibbled at my main...

For this Paris specialty coffee feature, I sat down with Gaël, the co-founder of Matamata to discuss the rise of the co-working space and...

For this Paris specialty coffee feature, I sat down with Nicolas, the Founder of KB Cafeshop to discuss the rise of the superbarista and...

For this Paris specialty coffee feature, I sat down with Nico, the Founder of Holybelly, to discuss his intention to bring a little taste...

For this Paris specialty coffee feature, I spoke with Anselme, the owner of Ten Belles, to discuss the ways in which wine may be the...

For this Paris specialty coffee feature, I sat down with Paul, a roaster at Café Lomi, to discuss the city’s coffee scene and the ethical...

The Paris Coffee Revolution has built upon the café culture of the city to include space for specialty coffee. Characteristically burnt...

« Qu’est-ce qu’un vrai café ? » (“What is ‘true coffee’?”) was the opening question of a two-hour training at La Caféothèque. In any...