My small college didn’t have a very exciting meal plan (sorry, Moore), but they did make a roasted butternut squash soup that changed my life. I’ve never been a huge fan of pumpkin pie (unless it has butter pecans and chocolate toffee bits added to it), so this butternut squash soup was my first encounter with winter squash that made me fall in love with the vegetable. This led to an unhealthy obsession with the triple squash soup at Whole Foods. (That + a mini baguette + an apple + a hunk of good cheddar was my favorite dinner for when I just couldn’t handle eating in the dining hall.) [Read more…]
Devilish Hot Chocolate
The summer before my senior year of college I did this crazy thing where I commuted from Philly to NYC for an internship, Monday through Thursday, for 10 weeks. Also, even though it was the hottest summer of my entire life, I did this other crazy thing where I had hot chocolate every day. Because when you are interning for Penguin Books and there’s a Jacque Torres chocolate shop across the street with a hot chocolate bar, that’s what you do. [Read more…]