Georgia Freedman @georgiafreedman.bsky.social · 21/04/2025This past couple of weeks has been so much fun! What an amazing reception for Snacking Dinners! We've already ordered a second printing, and our launch party in Montecito was enormous (and a little buzzy, thanks to some celebrity guests!) Pick up a signed copy here: nowservingla.com/products/sna... 030
Georgia Freedman @georgiafreedman.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Last week to enter to win this gorgeous giveaway! If you’ve pre-ordered my book, Snacking Dinners (out in 1 week!) make sure to sign up:snackingdinners.comCookbook News: Get These Pre-Order Bonuses!Don't Miss Your Chance to Win the Big Prize (Plus Drink Pairing Recipes) 020
Georgia Freedman @georgiafreedman.bsky.social · 31/03/2025My book talk dates are up! Come see me in SF, LA, and Oakland this spring—and in London and NYC (and maybe Portland?) in the summer:snackingdinners.comBook Event Schedule!Come chat in person—and eat some fun snacks 030
Georgia Freedman @georgiafreedman.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Made something fun this weekend, decided to share:snackingdinners.comFrench Onion-Bacon "Tarts"With cheaters' quick-caramelized onions 030
Georgia Freedman @georgiafreedman.bsky.social · 29/01/2025"This is really good, Mom! You should write it down so you don't forget it." So I did:californiatable.substack.comBlack-Eyed Pea and Farro SoupBecause black-eyed peas aren't just for New Years Day. 010
Georgia Freedman @georgiafreedman.bsky.social · 26/01/2025I really enjoy dips, and I like using beans in place of pasta. Put that together, and this is what you get:snackingdinners.comCreamy White Bean Dip with Pan-Fried Tomato SaucePasta puttanesca, but make it a (protein-rich) snack 130
Georgia Freedman @georgiafreedman.bsky.social · 19/01/2025What was the last cookbook you bought, and what made you hit the "purchase" button (or take it to the register)? 731
Georgia Freedman @georgiafreedman.bsky.social · 17/01/2025I made a reel on one of the not-great platforms, because you do what you need to do when you have a book to sell, but I'm posting it here too: I my first copy of Snacking Dinners! 030
Reposted by Georgia FreedmanErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12/01/20251. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!erininthemorning.com2025 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day! 380236979671
Georgia Freedman @georgiafreedman.bsky.social · 02/01/2025TFW you go out of town and your kimchi goes from not ready to too far while you're gone 😢 🍽️ 000
Georgia Freedman @georgiafreedman.bsky.social · 29/12/2024People! My amazing step-mother, @drjenfreed.bsky.social, has just joined Bluesky! If you're into astrology you probably already know her work—and if you're not, follow her anyway, because she's an amazing psychologist and the most fearless, creatively prolific, generous, insightful human I know. 010
Georgia Freedman @georgiafreedman.bsky.social · 29/12/2024How have I been sleeping on the Kennedy Center Honors all these years? The music!!! 010
Georgia Freedman @georgiafreedman.bsky.social · 23/11/2024The delightful Bebe Carminito let me share one of her board recipes in the Snacking Dinners newsletter:snackingdinners.comBebe's Make-Your-Own Crostini BoardA mushroomy snacking dinner from Bebe Black Carminito's new book The Curated Board 044
Georgia Freedman @georgiafreedman.bsky.social · 21/11/2024What Should I Cook Tonight? I need some rainy day cooking ideas. Needs to be doable, start-to-finish, in 1 hour or less on a budget and the tween shouldn't reject it outright. 000
Georgia Freedman @georgiafreedman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024My solution when half my family wants pumpkin pie and half wants chocolate 🍽️californiatable.substack.comPumpkin Tart with Chocolate and MisoA California Twist on a Martha Stewart Favorite 040
Georgia Freedman @georgiafreedman.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Has anyone watched Interior Chinatown yet? I loved the book, and I can't quite imagine how they're going to structure the story to make the metaphor work—or maybe it's just its own, also good but different, thing once its on screen? 010
Georgia Freedman @georgiafreedman.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Found this gem on the CDC website: In 1900, the three leading causes of death were: Pneumonia Tuberculosis (TB) Diarrhea + Enteritis Add diphtheria, and these diseases caused 1/3 of all deaths 40% were among children under 5. This is why we're required to vaccinate! 032
Reposted by Georgia FreedmanErin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 17/11/2024It is extremely important when looking at these stats to understand that this is *INTENTIONAL*. This is part of the evangelical, GOP playbook. It's why Project 2025 wants to eliminate the Dept of Education and boost homeschooling. Uneducated, uninformed people are easier to control. 12381118
Georgia Freedman @georgiafreedman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Unfortunately I think the men who troll the internet just to find people to pick fights with have found Substack—or was I just in a blissful little bubble the past couple of years? 020
Georgia Freedman @georgiafreedman.bsky.social · 16/11/2024I did something kind of insane and launched a second recipe Substack—Snacking Dinners. First up, Cheater's Spanish Tortilla 🍽️ : www.snackingdinners.com/p/cheaters-s...snackingdinners.comCheater's Spanish TortillaA prep-ahead snack you can keep in your fridge and nibble on all week. 010
Georgia Freedman @georgiafreedman.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Guys, I made myself a cosmo—first one in maybe 20 years?—and I totally get why we drank these! 020
Georgia Freedman @georgiafreedman.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Ruby Bridges is younger than my mother. 23323
Georgia Freedman @georgiafreedman.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Every time I get a text that says something like, "You have a USPS package that cannot be cleared by customs because of an invalid postal code..." with a form to fill out, it takes me a split second to recognize it as spam and delete. Which makes me super stressed about what my parents might do! 020
Reposted by Georgia FreedmanMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 25/10/2024You ever think about how capitalists end up aligning with fascists to maintain their wealth and limit the power of the working classes? No reason!npr.org'Washington Post' won't endorse in White House race for first time since 1980sThe Washington Post declined to make an endorsement in this year's presidential race. Its editorial board has written that GOP nominee Donald Trump is unfit for office. 322670
Reposted by Georgia FreedmanDr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 21/09/2024“Roughly 90 percent of women who marry adopt their husband’s last name. Roughly 90 percent of married female voters have different name on their ID than on their birth certificate. 34 percent of women could be turned away from polls unless they have precisely the right documents.” FUCK THESE FUCKS.newrepublic.comHow the Republican War on Women Extends to Voting RightsMost women vote Democratic. And most still change their name when they marry. And that’s where the GOP sees an Achilles’ heel. 712191996
Georgia Freedman @georgiafreedman.bsky.social · 18/09/2024A quick dinner this week became a quick newsletter post 🍽️substack.comTomato-Kimchi-Cheddar Eggs on RiceA Last-Minute Dinner Solution and New Weeknight Favorite. 020
Georgia Freedman @georgiafreedman.bsky.social · 18/09/2024This is so similar to the issues with bitcoin mining—Why is it that the environmental impact of new technology is such a small part of the discussion? No other industry could have this kind of environmental impact without seeing some backlash. 021
Reposted by Georgia FreedmanJustin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 18/09/2024A single 100-word email generated by an AI chatbot using GPT-4 requires 519 milliliters of water, a little more than 1 bottle. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...washingtonpost.comA bottle of water per email: the hidden environmental costs of using AI chatbotsAI needs a lot of electricity and water to stay cool in data centers. We break down the toll prompt-by-prompt to show the scale of AI’s environmental needs. 28885582
Georgia Freedman @georgiafreedman.bsky.social · 17/09/2024Not the fanciest food photo I've ever taken, but it was delicious: Yunnan-style beef with pickles (from my cookbook), mushrooms with Sichuan peppercorn oil (a recipe test for an upcoming piece for the Mala Market), yuba salad with Hodo soy leftovers, generic cucumber dish. 🍽️ 020
Reposted by Georgia FreedmanDan Saltzstein @dansaltzstein.bsky.social · 17/09/2024This is like one of those chyrons you’d see in a dystopian future movie, except it’s real 😔 124
Reposted by Georgia FreedmanMike Masnick @masnick.com · 17/09/2024Wait wait. The US Attorney handling the case against the guy who wanted to assassinate Trump... is a Haitian immigrant? The writers this season are really weaving the plotlines together, huh? www.nbcmiami.com/discover-bla...nbcmiami.comFrom Haiti Through Liberty City to Top Federal Prosecutor in South Florida: the Unlikely Story of Markenzy LapointeMarkenzy Lapointe ascended to one of the most powerful positions in the state from some of the harshest circumstances in the Western Hemisphere. 30977203
Reposted by Georgia FreedmanPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 08/06/2024there are frequent reminders that palestinian lives just don’t count in the west, but an operation that killed 200+ to save 4 hostages being celebrated like it’s a success is a visceral one 332655811
Reposted by Georgia FreedmanDr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 19/05/2024“Periodic re-vaccination for COVID-19, may cause people to gradually build up a stock of broadly neutralizing antibodies that protect them from emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants and some other coronavirus species as well, even ones that have not yet emerged to infect humans.” SHOTS SHOTS SHOTS SHOTS! 🧪medicine.wustl.eduRepeat COVID-19 vaccinations elicit antibodies that neutralize variants, other viruses | Washington University School of Medicine in St. LouisResponse to updated vaccine is shaped by earlier vaccines yet generates broadly neutralizing antibodies 211268437
Reposted by Georgia FreedmanColin Dickey @colindickey.com · 03/04/2024Still one of my better pieces of writing 341367406
Reposted by Georgia Freedmangita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 20/03/2024I will never ever forget this moment from project runway where a contestant said this to Karlie Kloss, who is married to Joshua Kushner. He should have been meaner! 512921
Georgia Freedman @georgiafreedman.bsky.social · 19/02/2024Why is there an article about the optimum amount of time to stay in bed and be lazy if you want to relax in the morning? We impulsively ruin everything by making it subject to advice—now there's a chance you could be "wrong" about how you choose to be lazy and relaxed.nytimes.comHow Long Is Too Long to Stay in Bed?Asking for a friend. 000
Georgia Freedman @georgiafreedman.bsky.social · 28/01/2024Had such a fun time catching up with my former colleague, editor and lesbian rom-com writer Anna Pulley for this month's California Table interview!open.substack.comStarting with the Basics and Diving Into Southwestern FavoritesAn Interview with Anna Pulley of San Ramon 000
Georgia Freedman @georgiafreedman.bsky.social · 27/01/2024Writing a new cookbook, and of all the things I'm working on, it's the rice that's going to drive me insane. 000
Reposted by Georgia FreedmanKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 25/01/2024The thing that's really hard about the journalist layoffs is even if you're "safe" there's an undercurrent of awareness that if your current job goes south there likely isn't another one out there. Which can make one docile towards institutional power 429667
Georgia Freedman @georgiafreedman.bsky.social · 09/01/2024Apparently a recipe I published on my Substack is the very first result when you Google "eggs and celery" (double checked in stealth mode). That's wild! 100
Georgia Freedman @georgiafreedman.bsky.social · 05/01/2024Just leaving this here in case anyone else has a leftover panettone sitting on their kitchen counter:californiatable.substack.comPost-Holiday Bread PuddingA Great Way to Use Up That Panettone Sitting on Your Counter 000
Georgia Freedman @georgiafreedman.bsky.social · 31/12/2023Apparently the year I was born was the year Ken learned to "beach" 000
Reposted by Georgia FreedmanMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/12/2023if bumble was around in 1963 we’d know who shot JFK www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus... 451761359
Georgia Freedman @georgiafreedman.bsky.social · 13/12/2023I did a short, very opinionated gift guide for the California Table this year:open.substack.comA Short, Opinionated Gift GuideThese treats from California-based makers are perfect for stuffing into stockings, gifting for Hanukkah, thanking generous hosts, and sharing with loved ones 000
Georgia Freedman @georgiafreedman.bsky.social · 13/12/2023Took a rare newsy assignment to tell the stories of the families and businesses still fighting the chaos created by ghost kitchen traffic: www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur... 050