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You are My Sunshine

My fondness for the artwork featured this week on Salted & Styled is composed of a two-fold list of ingredients: one part eggs, the other part simple words.

Holiday Pies: Dark Chocolate Ginger Cream Pie

Recipe, Words and Styling by Libbie Summers Photography by Chia Chong Ginger is my mother. Growing up, none of my friend’s mothers had such an “exotic” name. I loved saying her name […]

A Lesson in Geography and Modesty

There’s nothing like a worldly person to remind you you’re not.

When I meet Merveille Kasongo, her body language reads like one of those signs on the back of a semitruck that warn: “Stay back 200 feet.” Her arms remains locked at her sides and without smiling she looks directly at me with big dark eyes lined with lashes so thick I wonder how they could be real. My brassy American sensibilities are, of course, injured.