Dear Food52 Community,

I was just in Portland, OR, where the sun decided to make an appearance, and Denver, where it decided to snow in late April. Now back in Brooklyn with its cherry blossoms and garbage.

My Flight Supplies

What do you take on planes? Tell me at [email protected] and I’ll share a bunch of people’s favorite travel supplies in an upcoming newsletter.

Schoolhouse Stopover

While in Portland, I got an early look at the fall (2024) and spring (2025!) products we’ll be launching at Schoolhouse. Here are a couple that I have crushes on:

While I wait for those, I ordered these sheets in chamomile! I decided to break free from my white sheets monopoly.

Portland Food

The Highlights:

• The Paper Bridge – The Lime Snow (lime juice, sweetened condensed milk, and ice—you have to try it!) and sauteed morning glory
• Lovely’s Fifty Fifty – Nettles pizza!
• Jacqueline – Hamachi crudo with charred pickled pineapple and Mizuna Gardens lettuces with a tofu green goddess dressing, avocado, parm, radish, and crisp quinoa
• Fifty Licks – Mango sticky rice, a non-dairy ice cream
• Barista – Sparrow Bakery’s cardamom-vanilla Ocean Roll and the banquette seating at their NW 23rd Avenue location (great place to work or mindlessly scroll through IG daydream)

Denver Food

The Highlight:

Corsica Wine Bar, a new restaurant in RiNo, where we ate mussels in a saffron-crab broth; barbajuan (crisp ravioli stuffed with ricotta and greens); and blood orange granita with cacao nibs. (Full disclosure, I’m on the board of this company.)

Home Cooking in Denver

The Food52 recipes I cooked with my sister, Rhonda, at her house:

Rhonda’s Spaghetti with Fried Eggs and Pangrattato. (We doubled it and added kale and arugula.)

We riffed on this Blood Orange Salad—making a citrus salad with pomelo, mandarin, and blood orange with pistachios, avocado, ground chile, olive oil, and salt.

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies. (We made them without the black cocoa and they turned out just fine!)

Founder’s Faves

New Favorite N/A Beer

Best Day Brewing Kölsch (This also received unanimous approval in our NA Beer Taste Test.)

New Favorite Potato Chip

Bonilla a la Vista Patatas Fritas (Yes, they’re insanely expensive, but you get a reusable tin.)

The Dishes I Use at Home

Sarah Kersten Dinnerware (Happily, we just started carrying Sarah’s plates again!)

Back in Brooklyn

My husband, Tad, always puts flowers on my desk and bedside when I return home from a trip.

Hope you all have a week that’s as eager and promising as these tulips!

Amanda

Before starting Food52 with Merrill, I was a food writer and editor at the New York Times. I’ve written several books, including “Cooking for Mr. Latte” and “The Essential New York Times Cookbook.” I played myself in “Julie & Julia” — hope you didn’t blink, or you may have missed the scene! I live in Brooklyn with my husband, Tad, and twins, Walker and Addison.