An Ode to Nachos
I love nachos. Most people I know love nachos. Nachos are simple, but they host multiverses of possibilities. When you mention the dish, memories pile atop one another: summer parties in the cul-de-sac, the neon yellow cheese glow in the bleachers, salty fingers at the movie theater. Nachos are a shimmery food; almost anyone can ...
The Ultimate Guide to Building a Grazing Board
A good grazing board contains multitudes. People wander over from the dance floor or the living room to an exquisitely set board filled with cheeses, tinned fish, long bready crackers, fresh cut fruit, shiny olives — surveying the spread, taking bites from here and there, and chatting through the night. At once, a grazing board ...
Self Care for the Winter
The easiest way to get through the winter is to accept that we are a part of it. Come November 5th, we lose an hour as we transition away from daylight saving time. The time change, signaling the transition from autumn to winter, is notorious for throwing many of us off-balance, and this fatigue only ...
Meet Uele, An Aspiring Artist and Thrive Gives Member
If you are in financial need—including families, students, teachers, veterans, nurses, and first responders—you qualify for a free one-year membership through Thrive Gives. With it, you’ll get access to member-only benefits from Thrive Market. Apply here. When we visited Uele Siebert in Tennessee, what moved us immediately was her spirit. In a home covered with ...
Cream Cheese, The Infinite Schmear
Cut to March of last year. It’s six in the morning. The air is tinged with a blueness, and I barely keep my eyes open as I get ready to drive across LA county for a video shoot near the coast. The kettle comes to the boil; my stomach barks. I scan the half-empty fridge ...
Meet Yoshi, A Busy Medical Student and Thrive Gives Member
If you are in financial need—including families, students, teachers, veterans, nurses, and first responders—you qualify for a free one-year membership through Thrive Gives. With it, you’ll get access to member-only benefits from Thrive Market. Apply here. Not many things come easy for a medical student. Add up the hours spent attending lectures, studying for exams, ...
Cold Brew Your Iced Tea with Koridashi
With our attention more fractured than ever, what can we learn from melting ice? Originating in Japan, koridashi refers to the process of scattering tea leaves on top of ice cubes and letting that mixture naturally melt. The water slowly pulls out the flavors of the leaves, infusing into a cloudy beverage over the course ...
Rosé Shaved Ice Is the Summertime Treat for Wine Lovers
Light enough to enjoy in the afternoon yet satisfying enough to cap off a delicious meal at night, there are few things more enjoyable and nostalgic than a heaping bowl of shaved ice. Call it bingsu, granita, piragua, snow cone, slurpee, or slushie — in any culture, shaved ice’s secret power is its adaptability. Hawaiian ...
This Easy Coconut-Grapefruit Ceviche Tastes Like Summer
An excellent ceviche tastes like a celebration of summer: bright, delicate, and most of all fresh. Flash-frozen at peak freshness, our seafood is the centerpiece in our ode to summer ceviche. To complement the hiqh-quality fish, we amp up the aromatics with citrus zest, layer in multiple forms of acid, and splash in a bit ...
3 Lessons for Perfecting Camp Cooking
Sequoia National Park, California. The first signs of evening spread across the sky and we are roughly thirty minutes away from our campsite. Heavy clouds gather above the treetops and cover what little sun is out. Rain begins to pitter patter against the top of our 4Runner. The sound reminds me of grains of rice ...
Jon Kim
Jonathan Kim is a writer and poet living in Southern California. He loves cheese and pickles.
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