For the Love of Food

Welcome to Friday’s For The Love of Food, Summer Tomato’s weekly link roundup. 

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This week how to trust your future self, a simple way to better choices, and how parents impact your adult relationships.

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Links of the week

• To Change Your Life, Learn How to Trust Your Future Self <<Rarely is such a thoughtful and science-based article about behavior change and motivation published in a mainstream publication. Great read. (NY Mag)
• The Writing Assignment That Changes Lives <<There’s a lot of great research suggesting that writing can help build motivation and unravel limiting beliefs as well. (NPR)
• Want to Avoid Munching on Unhealthy Foods? Serve Yourself <<This is another way of saying you need to take responsibility for what you eat and not outsource it to others because you want an excuse to choose poorly. To avoid fallacies like this prioritize the consequences of your actions rather than the reasons for them. (WSJ)
• Yes, It’s Your Parents’ Fault <<I disagree with this headline, but it can be helpful to remember that your behavioral patterns and beliefs are set at a very young age. Also that they can change if you make the effort. (NY Times)
• Jacques Pepin: How following a recipe can lead to disaster <<I could not agree more. This why it’s so essential that you actually know the principles behind cooking without recipes. (David Lebovitz)
• What’s the best fitness routine for you? Consider your personality. <<In other words, don’t pretend you’re going to do/stick with things that you hate. (Washington Post)
• Sustainable Meat Supporters and Vegan Activists Both Claim Bullying <<What’s irritating about this is that it is an important conversation to have, but no progress can be made when both sides are acting like children. (Civil Eats)
• 2 Simple Ways to Overcome Food Boredom <<I love this and use these tricks all the time to remake staple dishes. (Stone Soup)
• Mediterranean diet may have lasting effects on brain health <<What’s interesting here is that they couldn’t find a correlation with meat or fish, which is usually stated as gospel when discussing a Mediterranean eating pattern. (ScienceDaily)
• Pickled Turmeric Eggs Recipe <<These are so pretty! Yum. (101 Cookbooks)

What inspired you this week?