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Why I Stopped Counting Macros (And Started Actually Enjoying Food)
For a long time I was the person who knew exactly how much protein was in a chicken breast. I could tell you the calorie count of almost anything I ate. I had spreadsheets. I had a food scale. And I was miserable at every single meal. This is the piece I wish someone had handed me ten years ago.
Cooking Notes
The Egg I've Been Making Every Morning
There's a specific way to scramble an egg that most people never discover. Not because it's hard — it's genuinely simple — but because it requires patience at a time of day when patience is the last thing you have.
Essay
On Sourdough, Brown Butter, and Cooking Without Rules
The first thing I cooked completely from feel — no recipe, no measurements, no checking anything — was a piece of toast. It felt absurd that it was liberating. It wasn't absurd at all.
Fitness & Food
What Ten Years Running a Gym Taught Me About the Way We Eat
I watched hundreds of people transform their bodies and stay miserable. I watched others eat without restriction and feel better than anyone in the building. It took me a decade to understand why.
Kitchen Notes
The Ingredients Worth Spending More On
Not a list of expensive things to buy. A list of the places where the money actually shows up on the plate — and the places where the cheap version is completely fine.
Tips
Five Cooking Habits That Changed How I Eat
None of them are dramatic. No overnight transformation, no life-changing discovery. Just five small shifts that compounded into a genuinely different relationship with cooking.