Hello dear friends!
I’m grateful that you’re here – I know there are all sorts of other ways you might choose to spend your Sunday morning. Have you felt like a success this week? Oh… we’re measuring our success in sweat these days, so…. let’s just say we’re all really quite successful this week.
It’s been one of those weeks where it appears that most everyone went on vacation without us… unless you’re one of the folks on vacation to which I say… hey, you went on vacation without me. Good for you, honestly. Well done.
This month I’m a) drinking a lot of lemonade. b) thinking deeply about whether or not I even like the new Drake album (shrug). and c) studying anatomy in yoga teacher training. A few other actually important things are going on but listen…. if I have to find my pelvic floor I don’t want to do it alone and I think you should at least know, if not join me. Big stuff over here… I know it.
Here is the reading offering this week. May you enjoy it with coffee or summer water in hand.
• Thoughtful: Where Is Barack Obama? (NY Magazine)
• Still trying to wrap my mind around the red tape and long term trauma of this national nightmare: Parents Are Struggling To Reclaim Their Children From The Office of Refugee Resettlement. (The New Yorker)
• A very important interview with our low-key Queen: Marisa Tomei Knows What She’s Worth. (The Cut)
• Based on my consumption of true crime media my amygdala (it’s a part of the brain) is on HIGH ALERT but this rock climber dude is on the opposite end of the spectrum which is why he climbs up mountains with no ropes while I set my alarm at night and run through my window escape route before falling asleep: The Strange Brain of the World’s Greatest Solo Climber. (Nautilus) Everything is fine, ssdgm.
• I mean… what are you doing with your life? Not this? Me neither. The Nutella Billionaires.
• Here’s a rabbit hole to go down, join me / I’m sorry: The Journey Into The Dark Heart of Celebrity Relationship Conspiracy Theories. (Buzzfeed)
• I love these concrete Lazy Susans and tiny baby planters from The Makerage. (Etsy)
• The latest issue of Cherry Bombe magazine features Nigella Lawson and I’m very excited to get my hands on it. (Cherry Bombe)
• Chillin in the summertime: 16 Salads For People Who Hate Lettuce. (Buzzfeed)
• Get your summer corn right: Charred Corn with Pistachio Cilantro Lime Rub. Ya heard? (Joy the Baker)
• Lemonade, which we need by the gallon: Peach and Cardamom Lemonade (Joy the Baker)
• I’m reading all about the chakra system thanks to yoga teacher training: Wheels of Life. Yup… here I go. (Amazon)
• We’re planning some great things for fall at The Bakehouse! Be sure to follow us on Instagram to keep up with all the good news!
My love to you. Enjoy this day!
xo Joy
Pictured above: a slice from Emporium Pies in Dallas, amen.
julie
Whoa – this week, you’re in my brain.
Nearing the end of my first trimester — but have spent the last few weeks adjusting to the fact that I HATE RAW VEGETABLES AND CRUNCHY SALADS (as someone who happily ate basic boring salads every day for lunch, for 8+ years).
Craving lemonade. Drinking it a lot. Like, more than I have in any other time of my life. Also, mixing it with hopped brewed sparkling teas from the farmer’s market (like, a no-caffeine, no booze, IPA. It’s dope).
And thinking, what is this pelvic floor? I keep hearing I should strengthen it. I have also heard of friends who have physical therapy to deal with it post-baby. I should research it. I will do that, right? Eventually? Before mine… falls out? Is that what happens?
Thanks for all of the extremely pertinent links.
Angie De Angelis
Loved that link on finding your pelvic floor. Also am I the only immature one that read it at my desk laughing? Possibly.
Nina
Love your lists, there are so many things you are in touch with that go totally unnoticed by me, or they would if it wasn’t for you :)
The Obama one is an interesting read, albeit a long one, so I’m still in for the 2nd stretch…
And Alex Honnold – so cool to read about him and his apparently extraordinary brain :D My colleague & I had the honor to lend him our voices when he spoke at the International Mountain Summit in Italy last year – pretty damn impressive. And he was also super nice when he came up to us before the event and when we later took a photo with him. (I must have this here somewhere… oh yes look: https://www.instagram.com/p/BbXjnBPFn0X/?taken-by=nina_says That’s all of us interpreters with the man himself :))
Lots of love from southern Germany!
Nina
Jeanne
Your Sunday Lists are my favorite and I anticipate its revealing every weekend. I think you are well informed and well spoken. And you approach these topics in a thoughtful and intelligent manner. I admire that you use your platform to do the greater good. “You keep on doing you” because you do it so incredibly well. xo
Jess
Girl, get after it. These posts are my favorite and I needed that pelvic floor link like whoa. Sorry Marie couldn’t admit she did too.
Jill Thomas
They are my favorite, too! Marie needs to realize that croissants should come with a big helping of staying woke.
Kimi
Joy,
At first listen, Drake underwhelmed. Give him another try. I think you’ll come around. I’m a fan of Scorpion.
Taste of France
Re your pelvic floor, in France, it’s a big deal, tax dollars at work. After childbirth, women can have sessions with a specialist who teaches them to do kegels and to strengthen their pelvic floors. This is mostly done via house calls, of course. Having given birth in the U.S. (my kid can become president!) and moved to France later, I didn’t get in on it. However, years later I discovered Pilates and have given my pelvic floor a new lease on life. Be happy that when your muscles start giving up the ghost, one by one, starting with that pelvic floor, around menopause, you will be able to sneeze and cough without wetting yourself.
PS: while I love your recipes and try out quite a few of them, I come here mostly for the intelligent/intellectual political discourse, which gives me hope in such a dark time.
Yolie
Hey Joy! I’m curious to know about your yoga teacher journey and why you decided to pursue it. If you wish to share of course. Love your site!
Hani
I respect and adore how you use your platform, Joy!
Food and feeding is inextricably linked to politics, whether we like it or not. In that sense, if we have a slice of drake-on-cake, we must eat it, too. Hope you’ll forgive a slight twist of metaphor. We don’t have to imagine the twisting that happens to our souls when we compartmentalize every aspect of life to keep from seeing or feeling the suffering being perpetrated all around us–we don’t have to imagine it because it’s on display every day in the media and in comment sections around the net. I feel like the one of the last ways to circumvent that tragedy is to let discussion of uncomfortable things permeate EVERY platform until no one can ignore it.
Anyway, well done indeed. ??
SuzyMcQ
Joy, I can’t begin to thank you enough for your weekly note to us all. I look forward to seeing it in my inbox each Sunday, much like the NYT on my driveway. Both provide me with truth, honesty, thought-provoking content, fun and FOOD! There are so many outlets full of food and only food. Go there, Marie and don’t let the kitchen door hit you on your tusche on the way out.
Christy
I enjoyed the article about The Nutella Billionaires…God, how I LOVE those candies! The coconut Raffaellos are my faves! While stationed in Aviano Italy in the ’80’s, I was taken to the Ferrero factory by some Italian friends for a tour. We left with a Ginormous bag of free samples…which I managed to eat in less than month….and am pretty certain that I gained 15 lbs from!! NO Regrets!! I still cherish those sweet memories to this day!!
Eilidh
Joy, the only thing that makes your recipes better is a side of meaningful conversation, and I’m SO glad you so gracefully delight, inspire, engage, and challenge your readers with these links each week. Eating charred corn with pistachio cilantro lime rub in silence would be so . . . . . Sad.
Thanks for posting something to sip this week!
Megan
Followed you on Instagram for recipes (which I rarely bake, Sad!) but so pleased to discover blog posts with additional content. Looking forward to future posts, thanks for sharing your whole self- not just your recipe book.
Mary Ann
I’m going to make every one of those salads. Ever since I got food poisoning from a salad, I just can’t bring myself to eat lettuce. These are just what I needed.
Marie
Please remove me from this email. I used to enjoy it, and subscribed because of FOOD. I do not want a side dish of politics. Give someone a platform …….
Sad.
Christine Allen
Thanks Joy!
Blu
Marie, beloved, scroll down to the bottom of your email and hit the unsubscribe button yourself. You don’t want a side dish, yet you expect someone to serve you and do it for you. Bless your heart and I hope the rest of your day gets better :)
Blu
http://www.liveloveblu.com | wellness & healthy living
joythebaker
Marie, I’ve been meaning to thank you for giving me this platform. This must be a lot of work for you and gosh I really appreciate your generosity. You can unsubscribe in the actual email that directed you to this website. It’s easy. There’s a link at the bottom of the mail chimp.
Bill
I’m putting this week in the win column and it’s only Monday.
Sara
Marie, I’m sorry that you view speaking out against the traumatizing separation of small children from their families as “a side dish of politics.” #byefelicia
Nina
The parents who trekked those children to the USA are the culprits not us. If they call themselves refugees then they should have sought asylum to the first Country they hit which was Mexico, and not continue another 1000 miles to the USA border. Our sovereignty is being broken, and that is illegal, so Marie, you are right in what you stated.
Mikaela
I’d just like to thank you, after nearly a decade of religiously following JTB, I didn’t realize there was an email newsletter for updates, you can unsubscribe, but I went ahead and signed up to take your place, because balance in life is really so important don’t you think. It’s not all food, or politics. A little bit of everything serves to make us kinder, better informed, more generous humans.
MJ
Just because you disagree with someone does not give you the right to disrespect them. There are kinder ways to convey your thoughts and feelings. Thank you.
Rena
I see I should also prepare lemonade :)
Happy Sunday with less sweat!
xx from Bavaria/Germany, Rena
http://www.dressedwithsoul.com