Three Persimmon Recipes for Autumn
We call persimmons gam at home. The fruit, a favorite in my family, is among the first signs of the seasons changing — the hot summer months ending and cresting into the early twilights of autumn. Our local hanguk (Korean) market overflows with persimmons in the fall, and I remember these heart-shaped fruits coming home ...
How To Use Up Your Leftover Apples
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Red orbs of deliciousness, apples are loved for good reason. An apple slathered with peanut butter tops the list of all-time classic snacks. Though an apple raw is heavenly, an underrated quality in apples is their versatility in the kitchen. The humble apple can transformed via a ...
These Cold Dipping Noodles Are Perfect for the End of Summer
It is early August and a heat wave surges through California. A breeze travels down the Los Angeles River, along a bike path that leads straight to the shore and conveniently through a couple of neighboring houses. Amplified by a loud fan strategically placed next to the back screen door, that same breeze wafts through ...
3 Recipes To Make the Most Out of Your Peaches
There is a peach tree growing out of the patch of grass outside the apartment complex. When the air gets hot, the fruit blooms. Context and the appreciation of context can be a lost art when it comes to food. Knowing when and where and how a food is grown honors it — savoring sweet ...
The Best Thrive Market Products for a Picky Eater’s Lunch Box
Sometimes, being a parent means being a detective. You’re gathering data and making conclusions — observing your child explore what they like and dislike, curating their own sets of values and biases with which they use to interact with the world expanding around them. All the while, you watch and try your best to make ...
How to Hot Pot: This Communal Meal is Perfect for a Group Â
Steam rises toward the ceiling. Cut onions and cabbage are plucked from the soup and dunked into nutty sauce. We sit around the table, in various states of cooking and eating and laughing. Someone stands up to show pictures of their dog to the entire group. Fish cakes go in. Bushels of enoki go in. ...
An Ode to Nachos
I love nachos. Most people I know love nachos. Nachos are simple, but they host multiverses of possibilities. When you mention the dish, memories pile atop one another: summer parties in the cul-de-sac, the neon yellow cheese glow in the bleachers, salty fingers at the movie theater. Nachos are a shimmery food; almost anyone can ...
The Ultimate Guide to Building a Grazing Board
A good grazing board contains multitudes. People wander over from the dance floor or the living room to an exquisitely set board filled with cheeses, tinned fish, long bready crackers, fresh cut fruit, shiny olives — surveying the spread, taking bites from here and there, and chatting through the night. At once, a grazing board ...
Self Care for the Winter
The easiest way to get through the winter is to accept that we are a part of it. Come November 5th, we lose an hour as we transition away from daylight saving time. The time change, signaling the transition from autumn to winter, is notorious for throwing many of us off-balance, and this fatigue only ...
Meet Uele, An Aspiring Artist and Thrive Gives Member
If you are in financial need—including families, students, teachers, veterans, nurses, and first responders—you qualify for a free one-year membership through Thrive Gives. With it, you’ll get access to member-only benefits from Thrive Market. Apply here. When we visited Uele Siebert in Tennessee, what moved us immediately was her spirit. In a home covered with ...
Cream Cheese, The Infinite Schmear
Cut to March of last year. It’s six in the morning. The air is tinged with a blueness, and I barely keep my eyes open as I get ready to drive across LA county for a video shoot near the coast. The kettle comes to the boil; my stomach barks. I scan the half-empty fridge ...
Meet Yoshi, A Busy Medical Student and Thrive Gives Member
If you are in financial need—including families, students, teachers, veterans, nurses, and first responders—you qualify for a free one-year membership through Thrive Gives. With it, you’ll get access to member-only benefits from Thrive Market. Apply here. Not many things come easy for a medical student. Add up the hours spent attending lectures, studying for exams, ...
Jon Kim
Jonathan Kim is a writer and poet living in Southern California. He loves cheese and pickles.
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