COMME D'HABITUDE

Sometimes it takes awhile to realize certain truths about yourself. Not significant or particularly deep truths, just habits and patterns. For me, I've recently realized that I am big on routines. This might have slipped my attention - or maybe it wouldn't be a pattern to notice - if I weren't so nomadic. I've moved every year since leaving college and in each new home I am quick to establish my New Normal, and normal always involves a café within walking distance. Living abroad, the café was an expatriate hub, last year it was a place to blog since I didn't have the internet at home (!) and now...now my brain just can't focus without a barista in sight.

This is all to say that I am currently settling in in Fort Greene and have found my New Normal in Bittersweet café, where you can find me many a free morning huddled over my laptop, or run into me Saturday before I hit the farmer's market. The coffee (La Colombe) is as good as the music (Erasure, James Blake) and though it's kinda sorta too small for me to sit around at their bar for as long as I generally do, they never yell at me.

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Good food is also becoming a big part of my routine, if you couldn't tell. Cooking is still not a strength, I must admit, but it's been wonderful to pop down to the market every weekend and get whatever is within my means. I've eaten so many peaches and tomatoes the last few weeks...in salads, on bruschetta, for lunch, for dinner...it's been wonderful and all about letting simple, high quality ingredients do their thing. Speaking of which, I recently finished Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence - there's some #foodporn for ya. Probably the most arousing thing you'll ever find me reading on the subway! Hope you're enjoying late summer...

P.S. The first photo has a little sneak peek of the magazine for which I interned a few weeks back...details on that coming soon!