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Let It Be Sunday, 275!

June 14, 2020 by Joy the Baker 47 Comments

Hello friends! 

My favorite thing to do every morning is pick out the coffee cup I’m going to use. A luxury of having exactly too many mugs is that you get to choose from an array of places, memories, and gifts from friends when you’re selecting a cup.  This morning I picked a cup my friend Amy gave me a few years back because the colors reminded her of my blog header.  It’s just like offering a little kindness to myself each morning.  It’s Friday for me and the coffee is extra muddy.  We’re just going to go with it. 

This week – ya know. We’re in it.  In the food world, Bon Appetit (the cool kids) both imploded and exploded for high-key disparities between it’s white and brown staff, and for just like… really bad behavior of some of the men in at the top of the Bon App food chain.  Folks are coming with receipts and this is a shake-out.  

In the meantime I’m in here trying to keep my head down and work. I’m taking big bites this summer, let’s see if I can chew it all.  I don’t love that analogy, but we’ll let it stand. 

I hope you’re well this week. I hope you find some steadiness this morning, this week. It’s one of those things we have to fight for for ourselves and I’m rooting for you and me. 

The offering this week is below. It’s a bounty. As always, take only what you need: 

•  Our friend Julia Turshen has always had her eye on disparities in the food world and we appreciate her work.  This is a piece from Julia two years ago: To Change Racial Disparity in Food, Let’s Start With Cookbooks (Eater) 

•  My house is slowly but surely turning into a cookbook library and three of my favorites from black women are: Edna Lewis’ In Pursuit of Flavor – an absolute treasure a heartfelt authority of southern food. Cheryl Day’s Back In The Day Bakery Cookbook – a solid baking book of stand-by classics.  Soul Food Love by Alice Randall and Caroline Randall Williams.  Tasting Rome co-written by Kristina Gill which is the trip to Rome I have yet to take and first introduced me to Maritozzi con la Panna. There are truly so many others but these are some of my favorites top-of-mind. (Indiebound) 

•  I feel lucky to have befriended Kim Rhodes this year. Her words are strong and thoughtful:  How I Feel Right Now as a Black Woman (Cup of Jo) 

•  I don’t take for granted that I might have skated through Mardi Gras season without contracting COVID-19 so y’all I’m still playin’ it real safe out here in these streets.  But, is America is Giving Up On The Pandemic? I’m considering these words from an ER doctor: What I Feel Comfortable Doing and wondering when I’ll feel safe buying a plane ticket home to see my parents.  (The Atlantic and Slate) 

•  Ok wait – can we just take a moment to remember how incredible our bodies are and how we need to keep moving them around as best we can. A Single Session of Exercise Alters 9,815 Molecules In Our Blood. Maybe this is the motivation I need because I literally thought of my molecules when I was slow-jogging this morning.  (NY Times)

•  Do you subscribe to the Samantha Irby’s newsletter? I recommend. (SubStack)

•  Let’s talk about books!  I really love to read spooky / thriller books during the summer months. On my list this summer is Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke and  In The Woods by Tana French. (Indiebound and Tana French) 

•  I’ve watched this clip of Lady Gaga singing Million Reasons on Howard Stern more times than I’d like to admit. This next link is NOT for you if the f-word or the b-word rustles your feathers (is that the right phrase?). Is that pro-hib-it-ed?  Thankful to all my friends who are more active on TikTok and send me the good stuff (Anastasia, thank you.)  (YouTube and Tik-Tok) 

•  The Bakehouse is hosing a Bake Sale to benefit MiNO and GrowDat New Orleans.  It’s a local sale and presale details go up on The Bakehouse site on Monday! If you aren’t local but you still want to donate, we’d love that of course!  (Instagram and The Bakehouse Nola) 

•  Our friend Jocelyn’s of Grandbaby Cakes made Banana Fritters and we’re here for it!  Do you follow Jocelyn? We’ve traveled together on press trips and she’s just as hilarious and joyous as she seems – and her baby girl is the cutest.  (Grandbaby Cakes) 

•  Do you follow Olive and Artisan? Karlee has the sweetest blog and some of the best Instagram stories.  We met a couple years ago when I was almost literally drowning in cake batter for an event in Portland and she bailed me out of the weeds hour after hour to make a boatload of cakes. She’s ride or die.  This week she made The Perfect Sugar Cookie.  I trust her when she says perfect. (Olive and Artisan) 

•  Deb made an Any Fruit Galette which is exactly the thing we should be doing all summer. (Smitten Kitchen) 

•  I’m re-reading this Going It Alone: why I chose single motherhood and I dunno what’s brewing but here we are.  (The Guardian) 

•  One of the most lovely little shops in New Orleans in C’mere where you’ll find the sweetest, tiniest food jewelry and loads of goods from other local artists. It’s like… we all try to make space for one another here in New Orleans.  Local artist Ed Wycliffe has transformed his New Orleans bow tie business into a mask endeavor. You can learn about it here: Bow Shoeshoe. (C’mere and Kickstarter)  

•  I’m finishing this post up on Friday morning and looking forward to a weekend camping trip wherein I’M IN CHARGE OF ALL THE FOOD. It’s my favorite thing.  Would y’all be interested in my weekend camping menu? It’s a lot of marinades and foil and tape to label food by day so no one ruins my grand plans, lol.  Lemme know. (Food and Wine) 

•  We discussed this week but you’re definitely making a Summer Bucket List this year, right? (Joy the Baker) 

•  Last year this week we discussed meatballs, Drake, underwear… the usual: Let It Be Sunday, 226! (Joy the Baker) 

Have a lovely Sunday. 

My love to you.

xo Joy

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  1. Shellie

    July 6, 2020 at 6:06 am

    I made the Any Fruit Galette yesterday because why not? I opted for strawberry rhubarb since I had been gifted rhubarb from my favourite coffee shop, had just picked berries from the local u-pick and had pie dough in the freezer. So delicious that I regretted leaving the rest of it at my parent’s house.

    Stay safe, wash your hands and wear a mask.

    Reply
  2. katy

    June 17, 2020 at 4:18 pm

    here’s another great cookbook for you: Sweets by Patty Pinner. Loaded with stories about her family, who moved from the South to Michigan. Every recipe has a little paragraph about which female member of the family came up with it. So loving and comforting – sometimes I just read it, without cooking from it. It’s that good.

    Reply
  3. Anna Marie

    June 16, 2020 at 12:26 pm

    Making the Happy Wife, Happy Life Chocolate Cake for our 10 year anniversary, coming up on the 21st. Thank you for the link. And thank you for all your wonderful lists, Joy. We will all get through this eventually. We may not fit any of our old clothes, but we will eat well.

    Reply
  4. Batwood

    June 16, 2020 at 10:51 am

    Yes on the camping menu. Just went camping this weekend and I need a better menu for sure.

    Reply
  5. Christian

    June 16, 2020 at 3:47 am

    I read the Wych Elm by Tana French a while ago and it was so good that I wanted to read In the Woods etc., but I just finished that one and The Likeness and I really didn’t find them as good … I think just because they’re the kind of procedurals where the cops keep breaking the rules and making consistently terrible decisions, and I can’t suspend my disbelief anymore because like … by the end of the second book everyone should have been fired about 4 times already.

    Reply
  6. raychel

    June 15, 2020 at 5:34 pm

    Tana French is the best. You’re going to read In the Woods and the fall down the Tana French rabbit hole and read them all this summer (welcome to my life last summer). She has a new book out in October, so you’re perfectly timed to finish the Dublin Murder Squad series and then dive into her new one.

    Reply
  7. Tui Campbell

    June 15, 2020 at 4:05 pm

    Your Sunday post are always my favourite way to destress on my Monday (NZL time) with my coffee.

    It may be winter here but I think I’m going to NEED that camping menu. I have plans for my summer that involve me, my husband and kids, finally busting out the tent, a smoky camp fire and the beach.

    Stay safe out there and enjoy your summer.

    Reply
  8. Karena Gruber

    June 15, 2020 at 2:42 pm

    Thank you for reminding me that I don’t have to use the same coffee mug Every Single Morning.
    Also, I would love to see your camping menu, which is on the summer bucket list.

    Reply
  9. Abbi

    June 15, 2020 at 1:46 pm

    I love seeing that others are percolating the idea of single motherhood. I’m single at 32. Which isn’t old, except by midwestern standards. I’ve taken foster parenting classes, browsed adoption sites, and even considered sperm banks (or, *ahem* sperm donors). Will she do it? Only time will tell!

    Reply
  10. AG

    June 15, 2020 at 11:14 am

    Yes please to a camping menu! We car camp most weekends in the summer and love to get creative!

    Reply
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