😄 Joy in discomfort + vegan hamantaschen.

Hi friends,

Maybe you’ve realized this recently, but the price of community is inconvenience. 

Building a life of reciprocity, support, and longevity comes with a quota of discomfort. Your urge to keep score will be strong–a natural inclination derived from hyper individualism. But I’m encouraging you to fight through, to get absolutely uncomfortable in your drive towards collective energy. 

The price of driving change will be painful at moments–what got us here, will not in fact, get us there. Like any good chef knows, you may cry when you cut onions (unless you have very sexy onion goggles) but once you get carmelizing, the end flavor justifies every salty tear. Or maybe I just have very sensitive eyes.

Easy, is settling into complacency of the world you know. Harder, is the conscious act of contributing when it will rightly screw up your daily routine. Share leftovers with your neighbors, foster a pet (please!), drive friends to the airport, borrow tools and books–make it aggravatingly annoying how often you show up. And lean into that discomfort.

The right people will recognize your effort and soon, that reciprocity will be second nature. We’ll live outside of ultra consumerism simply by sharing more. But to move in that direction, when you’re first cutting onions, you must remind yourself that the meal at the end of the day is so, so worth it. 

So, how are you making yourself uncomfortable today?

Stay hungry,
Hawnuh Lee | Founder, Closed Loop Cooking

Black sesame paste for hamantaschen filling.

The dish >>

• Chag Purim Sameach! A very happy Purim to those who celebrate, a moment of joy and celebration in the form of triangle shaped cookies–hamantaschen. This year I’m enjoying with black sesame paste. Not a triangular dessert to be missed!

• Hoping more of these car-free neighborhoods catch on.

• Be back, starting my idyllic kitchen food forest.

• Time to start seeds, and make use of those clamshell boxes.

• “Toxic masculinity is killing this planet.” - Wise words from Pattie Gonia.

• As EPA environmental justice offices are shuttered. Gah.

• I could watch these mini food creations for hours. 

• Excessive but let me just walk through this fridge, ok?

• Take me to onion island, please.

Please note two corrections from last week’s feature interview with Pop-Ups Please-

• Pop-Ups Please is not and has not been affiliated with Republica & Co hospitality group. 

•  Lalo Camarena was mistakenly referred to as the chef at Mesa. It was the late and incredibly talented Lauro Romero who was the partner in Mesa prior to the app launching. The app is dedicated to his memory.

Taking this week off from features y’all, recovering from being sick!
Stay tuned 👀

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