March 5th, 2025

Food Storytelling: ‘Play Group’ — 25 Years of Delicious Friendship

Food storytelling is culinary biography. A deep dive into history, memory, geography, ancestry and nostalgia through flavours, textures, ingredients and creative interpretations of dishes that hold personal meaning. To demonstrate food storytelling in action, below you’ll find the ‘food stories’ behind a recent menu I designed for an old friend, complete with punny dish titles, flavour profiles and chef’s notes.I first […]

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January 11th, 2024

How did Nurture Start?

How did Nurture start? A decision to turn right instead of left. Everything we’ve built has grown from this one choice. January, 2015. I was on the streetcar and got off at my usual stop. Instead of heading home, I felt this tug to turn right. I looked up and caught eyes with a woman behind a storefront door. She […]

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December 14th, 2022

Love Letters to Creative Kindreds – Nurture Fall 2022 Edition

Let’s say I’m the Ghost of Christmas Future, but way less creepy. We’re at a holiday market, the outdoor kind, except everything is ‘brought to you by Nurture’. It’s that magical time of day during the colder months where the light paints everything gold until the violet darkness seeps in and the twinkle lights and lanterns are turned on and […]

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June 24th, 2020

Black Lives Matter.

Black lives matter. In the wake of the past few weeks (and I say ‘wake’ deliberately, for every layer of that word), the hope and the uncomfortable truths I have seen and felt on my Instagram feed, I have also seen in myself and in my business. I am not immune, nor is my company, to the ways in which […]

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February 9th, 2020

The recipe for a Nurture Collaboration: what we look for when building our team

To me, anyone whom has made an intentional practice of taking the time to make something beautiful is someone worth learning from. Like with food, there is ’empty calorie’ beauty and the kind of beauty that nourishes as a result of spending gestational time ‘in the dirt’, so to speak. I’m interested in the latter: the courageous souls who speak […]