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MEET | ALISON ROMAN
Featured 4.23-4.29.18 | Think everyone in the food world is obsessed with Avocado Toast? Then clearly you haven’t met Alison Roman, foodie renegade, author of the bestselling cookbook, Dining In, and creator of The Cookie, an homage to all things butter, chocolate, sugar and carbs. And want to know what makes her distaste for avocado even more legit? She’s from California. So, yeah. Today, though, Alison lives in Brooklyn and spends most of her time writing about food (she’s a contributor to the New York Times and Bon Appetit Magazine), thinking about food and eating food. Except avocado, obv. She has a fierce sense of humor (check out her Instagram captions), a life plan that includes moving to the middle of the woods (where she’ll open an all-day cafe that's only open 4 days a week with a 5-item menu that will change when she feels like it), and she makes cooking videos (with intermittent dance breaks) that are so incredibly watchable you can easily get lost down the rabbit hole of her YouTube channel. Her selects are as hard to resist as her recipes, and we think you’ll be as addicted as we are. And no, there isn't any avocado. Welcome to Alison’s week.
@adaptationsny becasuse it frees your mind of how furniture can function, like using a chair as a nightstand.
I love my apartment because I love my plants. I try to keep them all alive, but every now and then one struggles and I have to either move it, repot it or say goodbye. It's part of the process.
This Rachel Comey jumpsuit is kind of insane because I think maybe it looks like a wedding dress? But I also am obsessed with it.
I'm from California and when I moved out to New York, the thing I missed most was the access to nature. Not that I was hiking Runyon Canyon every day, but I missed, you know, TREES.
I pretty much live and die by a strong lip. I have like, 542 different tinted balms, lipsticks, stains and glosses on me at all times. But my all-time favorite shade is this CHANEL Rouge Allure 99 Pirate. It's the perfect shade of red.
This is one of my favorite dishes (and images) in the book. It's in the "knife and fork salads" chapter, which to me just means a big ol' plate of giant leafy greens (or in this case, chicories) that you sort of tackle with a knife and fork.
Right now, Everytown for Gun Control has unfortunately become somewhat of a priority for me in terms of charitable donations because it feels like a small thing we can do in an otherwise helpless feeling situation.
MORE ABOUT ALISON
Alison Roman is a writer, cook and author of the best selling cookbook, Dining In. A contributor to the New York Times and Bon Appetit Magazine, she writes mostly about food and how to cook it. Originally from Los Angeles, she lives in Brooklyn.