🐌 snail mail + no-harm parm + space crumbs

ISSUE #128

LOVING

This has been the best snail mail week I’ve ever had. Seriously. (At least that I can remember.) And no, it’s not because I got a big check or anything—although, Dear Universe… that would be nice too. 💸

• Monday – My copy of Start Somewhere by Ian Lynam finally arrived from Japan. I ordered it back in early February, and I had almost given up hope of ever seeing it! 🇯🇵

• Tuesday – A surprise package from Agnes Barton-Sabo a.k.a. Betty Turbo with two dreamy Riso zines and a sticker sheet. 💗

• Wednesday – An envelope from

  Abby Schleifer
  with her 10 Reasons to Sing Loudly zine plus bonus goodies: stickers, another tiny zine, and a thank-you card upcycled from an old card catalog. Swoon. ✉️

• Thursday –

  Stella Kalaw
  ’s Februllage 2025 Zine landed in my mailbox. 📔

• Friday – My Q2 cookbook subscription from Anchovy Book Co. wrapped up the week. 📚

Got something good in the mail lately? Tell me about it—I love a good mailbox moment. 🐌 💌

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MAKING

No-Harm Parm started out as a way to replace dairy Parmesan with a passable, vegan substitute but has since become a staple in our house that isn’t just a stand in, but beloved in its own right.

INGREDIENTS

• ½ cup [70 g] unsalted, raw brazil nuts (or Marcona almonds)

• ¼ cup [60 g] unsalted, raw cashews

• 1½ strips lemon zest

• ¼ cup [30 g] nutritional yeast (aka Nooch)

• ¼ tsp garlic powder

• ½ tsp Diamond Crystal Kosher salt

DIRECTIONS

1. In the bowl of a food processor, add nuts and lemon zest. Pulse until ground, 3 to 5 long pulses. Check to make sure there aren’t any large pieces of lemon zest remaining.

2. Add nutritional yeast, garlic powder, and salt. Pulse until finely ground, until it looks “sprinkleable”.

3. Store in the refrigerator for up to three months.

SERVING SUGGESTIONS

• on top of pizza

• on a simple bowl of beans

• stirred into olive oil for dipping bread

• served over pasta

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THINKING

Curiosity doesn’t ask you to make the full impossible sacrifice. It just asks you every single day what are you a tiny bit interested in right now and would you like to turn your head a quarter of an inch and look at it a little bit more closely and that’s all you have to do. The really interesting artistic life, I think, is the one that is not driven by passion but by the trail of breadcrumbs, bird seeds, and little tiny clues that equal the curiosity-driven life. —

Elizabeth Gilbert

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These tiny but mighty nudges go by many names: seeds, clues, sparks, signs. I call them Space Crumbs—little messages from the universe that remind us we’re on the right path. Space Crumbs don’t give you the whole map, just the next turn.