Go Fork Yourself: Controversial Feelings About Chocolate, Looking Back on 25 Years of NYC Dining and Corn Starch in Cacio e Pepe?!

Also this week: what makes Sardinian cuisine unique, the wisdom of nonnas, Memorial Day side dishes that can travel and booking beaches in advance—bad idea or brilliant solution?

Join me in Vietnam! From February 27 to March 9, 2026, I’ll be your guide on this incredible journey with Modern Adventure. We’ll slurp street-side phở, steam through Ha Long Bay, cook with aunties in Hoi An and more! For all the details, click here.

Welcome back to another episode of Go Fork Yourself: Tornado Watch edition! Beyond the wild weather, I’ve got some really exciting news to share with the Spilled Milk family: My first cookbook, The Blue Food Cookbook, is coming out in October! Consider it your sustainable seafood bible. You can pre-order the cookbook here.

This is the end of Sardinia Week, so if you haven’t checked out my travel guide and recipe for shrimp and peas with fregola, be sure to give those posts a look. I’m talking a lot about Italy today, and next week we’ll be traveling to Vietnam!

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