Umami Everything!
We’re back baby! This week we've got toddler fatigue, yes, but we also have two delicious, fragrant bowls of noodles, a salty seaweed snack and fish sauce so good you can use it in salad dressings. (Count how many times we say the word “umami”). For non-food content we've got you covered with a television show to make you feel things and one, lovely very nice book.
EAT
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Bun Bo Hue, at Cash Only Diner Move over Pho! There’s a new noodle soup to love as the weather get’s icy.
SM
Noodles, natural wine and carpark views for our Melbourne pals at Soi38 in Melbourne. (Bonus rec: find all this and more on the HE Melbourne Google Map!)
WATCH
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Station Eleven,Stan. A show about a world-ending pandemic might be a bit of a hard-sell, but grit your teeth through the first ep and stay for the beautiful meditation on art, loss, family and making beauty in a ruined world!
READ
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French Braid, Anne Tyler. Weaving together multiple strands of a single family, this is a book for when your brain needs a soothing massage.
BUY
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Wire baskets from Muji Down with tubs! Up with baskets! Useful, practical, utilitarian chic - Muji is always the answer for storage.
SM
Mari Dress, Muse The Label Gorgeous made-to-order Melbourne label, which will have you wanting to refresh your entire wardrobe. The Mari dress is a twist on a classic shirtdress - perfect if you want your work clothes to say “creative but professional”.
The Fast Five!
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Dance Fever by Florence and the Machine Particularly loving the track “Free”. Classic Florence - perfect for a kitchen dance party or a running playlist if you’re that way inclined.
Oddbox Recipes A compendium of veg and vegan recipes to help you use up all those random veggies in your crisper. Particularly good right now when all our food systems are a bit messed up and you’re left facing your fifth straight week of fennel.
On Being Podcast is the podcast SoRo listens to in her most earnest earnest moods.
Red boat fish sauce This is fancy fish sauce people. This is the content you come for.
@Readwritethrift Is an instagram account run by a woman in Toronto. She just has the cutest personal style! Great cold weather inspo as Canadians know how to layer.
SM
The Staircase, Binge Featuring a creepy Colin Firth, brilliant Toni Collette and Juliette Binoche in a meta role as documentary maker. So many twists and turns!
Society of Wanderers Pillow Cases for when you want to inject just a small amount of vibrancy and ruffle into your minimalist linen sheeting.
Hot Chocolate (in general). Make it on the stove with half boiling water, half milk and whatever drinking chocolate you can find. So cozy!
Tevas, midform universal in metallic pink multi if you’re ALSO going to Europe with everyone, get yourself some practical but FUN shoes to carry you through. Add socks when you get home for warmth.
Salt and vinegar seaweed snacks, Ceres Organics Addictive little dried nori packets that can carry you through that afternoon lull. Warning you’ll want five at a time.
Hasta pronto!
S&S