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Essays

Musings.

Burnt Offerings: My Epic Thanksgiving Fail, Courtesy of Endless Likes

From Instagram adulation to a full-blown kitchen inferno: Discover my hilarious Thanksgiving baking blunder where chasing likes led to forgotten…

Nov 13, 2025 • David Leite

Where Have All the Cocoa Powders Gone?

No Hershey’s, Ghirardelli, or Nestlé? Climate, Disease, and Low Pay Are Killing Our Cocoa. What's next?

Aug 22, 2025 • David Leite

Call Me Sugar Daddy

A chorus of pretty young things flit through my days, demand endless indulgences, and take me for all I'm worth. And I couldn't be happier.

Jul 21, 2025 • David Leite

The Mohel of Mollusks

One day in September, I found myself performing what I was fairly certain were brises on some 70 unsuspecting clams.

Jun 16, 2025 • David Leite

Men buy cars, boats, and watches to make up for their, um, shortcomings. A certain someone purchase stoves.

May 24, 2025 • David Leite

Want to Change the World? Cook.

The radical, tender power of making someone dinner.

May 13, 2025 • David Leite

When Life Ain't a Disney Movie, Make Lemon Drizzle Cake

Turns out I'm not bipolar. I just need lemon cake.

Apr 10, 2025 • David Leite

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