Meleyna Nomura

Freelance food writer & photographer (Kitchn, Spruce Eats, Eater, Food52, Bon Appetit, etc etc.)

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Boomer moms are living laughing loving only because their eldest daughters are screaming crying throwing up.

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@thefriscobay Hey have I ever told you about the diamondbacks.

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Literally opened up the app for the first time in forever to be like lol at the Giants fan who was taking shit when we were walking out of Oracle when the Dbacks lost back in June.

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@ChesCooks It's my existence as a Taurus that does not allow me to be incorrect. I walk the line so that I am always right. 😘

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Nah, girl dinner is a mindset I wholeheartedly get behind. It's not snack plate, tapas, nosh, apero. It's being moved by the spirit of the moment, a brief pause of personal indulgence, unimpeded by the wants and needs of others. https://t.co/bndQuet13t

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High functioning AND intelligent?! Wowww my psych is so flattering.

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@BoozyBrownGirl @ChesCooks @KellyInPhoenix I don’t have a lot of engagement on this platform, so any time I start getting a lot of notifications for it I already know it’s bc @BoozyBrownGirl tagged me in some nonsense pineapple pizza content. 😘

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Boneless skinless chicken breast is not for the girlies it is for the bros. We are eating pickles and crunchy carbs and cheese and fruit. We are dipping and spreading, plates are optional, but a cute linen napkin is not uncommon.

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Vegetables are trendy restaurant things bc girls no longer feel obligated to partner and just stay home and eat girl dinner. So restaurants had to start making brothy beans and charred brassicas to lure us out of our hovels to "share a few small things" w our other girls.

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I am tired of perpetually needing to find more ways to restrict my kids' online usage why does @Spotify even have video contentttttt.

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@ChesWho I am 110% Japanese which is why my daughter obv gets her blue eyes from her dad's side.

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@ChesWho I look exactly like my white mother lol.

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NYC restaurant recs for me and my tween? Doesn't need to be "kid friendly," just not like, Le Bernardin. She enjoys eating and the ~restaurant experience.~ I'd like to do one brunch and one dinner rez, otherwise cool to wing it. Generally wherever in Manhattan, we'll be all over.

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*french narrator voice*

~three years later~

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Me guffawing that one of the suggested final topics for my teen's ethnic studies class is the "Bon Appetit scandal."

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I would listen to "We Don't Talk About Bruno" 42 times a day for the rest of the summer if it meant I didn't have to listen to "Scuttlebutt" one more time.

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Whew first grocery store run of summer break that was not cheap.

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Me guffawing that one of the suggested final topics for my teen's ethnic studies class is the "Bon Appetit scandal."

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@ChesWho Yup

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It’s never ok to pronounce it “Noo-yin” at a graduation ceremony, but especially gross when you hear it over and over again at a Bay Area school.

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Tried to show my teenager Salad Fingers and he was immediately like NOPE wtf is this mom.

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@scenechangeGO Lmk if you need an editor/extra set of eyes bc this stuff !!!!

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Recipes that call for specific measurement of salt for pasta water but also just a "large pot of water." 😵‍💫