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Benny the Bull is my hero. Benny is the little blue beast who got the goods on Dora of Dora the Explorer. He established early on that she was a hidebound and callous little nut. She preferred to lecture through the fourth wall of the Nickelodeon TV show than to actually protect the residents of her cartoon kingdom in a timely matter. Does that sound like anyone you know in real life?

I’m Sian, a British actress born and raised in London, probably best known for playing Claire, the sister from Fleabag and I’m experimenting with a little detour back into writing, my first love. In 2015, the idea for Still Space woke me in the middle of a humid LA night like a bolt of lightning, gripped me by the PJs and shook me like thunder. I got out of bed, grabbed a notebook, the nearest pen and started scribbling furiously.

A few days ago, Julie D. O’Rourke announced her pregnancy. A post shared by Julie D. O'Rourke (@rudyjude)O’Rourke is the creator of the Rudy Jude clothing line, and I’ve been following her for several years (and devote quite a few pages to her inMomfluenced), because I’m frankly owned by her irresistible combination of lush, earthy aesthetics; her creativity and craftiness; and her enviable sweater collection. I also happen to be a person who overthinks and second guesses and tries to mindfully breathe away intrusive thoughts about how I responded/reacted/seemed/performed in nearly any given circumstance, so perhaps the most alluring component of O’Rourke’s Instagram account (for me) is O’Rourke’s conspicuous lack of self-consciousness.

scroll down for the recipe ⬇️ Guys!!! Modern Asian Kitchen is ready for preordering!!! Peep the gorgeous cover! 80 recipes of everything I make during the week for my family. Book will be out April 2nd, 2024— you can preorder today and not pay a penny until the book ships next year <3 PS: 8% of proceeds perpetually go to fundraisers and helps sustain my projects like Subtle Asian Baking and pumping out free recipes for you, my dear friend <3

Just a word from me first! Hello everyone, a few months ago I sent out an email asking my subscribers if they wanted my website and newsletter to stay alive. To my surprise, I was inundated with lovely emails from people explaining why they want my website to stay and why they’d love to still get an email from me. I’ve since been working on moving my website from www.missfoodwise.com to www.

Hello! My name is Rebecca May Johnson, I am a writer and cook and this is my Substack. This week’s newsletter is about Stone Soup based on a Stanley Tucci Tiktok… with a recipe, and then eating notes. I recently watched a sort-of cooking video on TikTok where Stanley Tucci talks about a soup made from vegetables in water. ‘you rolling?.... Ok, so I made this afternoon some string bean minestra, which means soup in Italian, and basically it’s this incredibly easy thing that my grandmother and my mother always made and which I now make, which is, you take a little bit of garlic, a little piece of onion, potatoes, zucchine, fresh tomatoes and maybe a splotch of marinara and string beans and you throw them all into a pot and you don’t sauté anything or you don’t do anything like that – with some water, and you cook it down, and salt, and olive oil, and that’s what it looks like.

Animator Melinda Wang has a stellar resume, to say the least. According to her IMDb page, Wang worked on visual effects for films such as Mulan, Hercules, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, and Meet the Robinsons. She is also married to film director Matt Reeves. Wang and Reeves are often seen together at the latter’s premieres, like at the 2019 premiere for his production company 6th & Idaho’s television series The Passage:

I write books, I teach full-time, and I travel around the nation speaking. I write this Substack because I value this community and your readership. One day, with your support, maybe I can do this on a more full-time basis. Consider becoming a paid subscriber today. Now that Juneteenth is a national holiday, every year people attempt to celebrate the holiday and they make a sincere but misguided mistake. They fly the Pan-African flag.

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