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Subscribe to get illustrated newsletters about plant-based cooking and my journey in mostly plant-based living. You’ll get illustrated recipes, personal essays about my feelings and experimentation with a vegan lifestyle, and some roundups of other recipes or nutrition things I’ve read on other Substacks or in the wider digital world.

There may also be newsletters where I go into deeper, more personal writing about diet, health, and sometimes about my earlier life as a third-generation vegetarian and my particular (possibly neuro-spicy) food quirks and likes and dislikes.

Currently, I am not paywalling any posts. I make no promises that this will always be the case, but for the moment I would rather be writing to a lot of people than a handful.

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To start with the zine will combine elements from each of my substacks, and my daily Morning Ink that I share in Substack Notes. So there may be an illustrated recipe, a personal essay, a new illustration and a Morning Ink page or elements from my Morning Ink drawings. There may come a point where I separate them out and send different zines for the different substacks.

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