When it comes to tea, naturopathic doctor Maria Geyman is fully immersed. Her line of teas and herbs, Masha Tea, is rooted in years of study and experimentation. A lot of love goes into each hand-assembled bag, and it seems like Maria’s enjoying the ride. Her mission with Masha is to create “a fun, thoughtful, and sensual tea culture worldwide.” And it’s already begun: if you’re in Brooklyn, you can visit her new shop now.
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Meet Shirin Neshat
Shirin is a renowned visual artist who works across photography, video installation, and film. In this conversation, she generously shares how each stage of her life has led her to today: from her upbringing in Iran to her youth in California and her life now in New York. Her dedication to ritual and to her artistic practice has remained consistent through the tumult and triumph of all her days.
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Reality Bites with Tonya Papanikolov
Along with being the founder of Rainbo—a medicinal mushroom based line of supplements and functional foods—Tonya Papanikolov is a Holistic Nutritionist, educator, cook, and yogi who lives in Toronto. Her work in mycotherapy builds from her platform as an educator on holistic health, nutrition, and healing through food as The Well Woman, and years spent foraging mushrooms in the Canadian forests. In this interview, she lets us in on her life, kitchen, and camera roll—proving that plant-based foods can be both extraordinarily pretty and delicious.
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Life in 10 Tracks with Fran Miller
in Entrepreneur
Toronto-based Fran Miller is the founder and force behind her eponymous skincare brand, F. Miller. Her line—which was launched long before going natural was cool—is centered around effortless, oil-based essentials.
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Meet Rebecca Boorstin
Rebecca is a medical administrator at Mount Sinai Hospital who—like anyone who grew up in New York City—has an intense love for the city she’ll always call home. But she did a stint in California too, and her openness to the world and all we can experience in it shines through in this interview. Come the Fall, she’ll be enrolling in a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, a commendable endeavor by any measure, but her ambition doesn’t stop there. One day, Rebecca hopes to resume writing and maybe even acting—crafts she cultivated at her high school for the arts.
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Life in 10 Tracks with Claire Rousay
in Musician
Claire Rousay is a San Antonio-based musician whose artistry and melodic music are transcendent. She’s a percussionist, but her experimental style lends to a lush sound that is imaginative beyond the limits of what you might dream. Her just-released album, a softer focus, demonstrates this. The project is a collaborative, multi-layered one, with visual artist dani toral creating the album’s floral artwork and meditative visual narrative. We’re ecstatic to enter Claire’s world and to have her share her musical inspirations.
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Reality Bites with Claudia Serrato
For Claudia Serrato, food goes hand in hand with community. And her knowledge runs deep— she is a culinary anthropologist, decorated and public scholar, professor, chef, and womb ecologist. Her understanding of Indigenous cooking and cuisine across the United States informs her work as a Co-Founder of Across Our Kitchen Tables, a culinary hub for gender-non-conforming individuals and women of color. We caught up with her on how she brings intention into each day and reveled in her undying love for all that food can do.
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Meet Shino Takeda
in Ceramist
Shino is a Brooklyn based ceramicist who grew up in southern Japan and has a deep, familial history of love for her craft.
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Meet Ghada Hatem
Ghada is an accomplished gynecologist and obstetrician who has spent the past 40 years devoted to women’s health. We speak to her about how her foundation, Maison des femmes de Saint-Denis, offers groundbreaking, comprehensive care to women who are victims of brutal violence, and about the little things in life (like receiving videos from her family) that keep her going each day.
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Reality Bites with Julia Turshen
in Chef
As a chef and cookbook author Julia Turshen has always been ahead of the curve when it comes to sharing ideas for home-cooking that are approachable, accessible, and delicious. Her brand new book Simply Julia, proves to be no exception. But more than that, Julia’s work actively combats the racial and gender-based discrimination that’s long riddled the food industry—she’s the founder of Equity At The Table (EATT), a digital directory that “builds a longer table” for women, non-binary individuals, and people of color working in food. Read on for a peek into the life she’s forged in the Hudson Valley.
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Meet Anne Malassagne
in Winemaker
Anne has been keeping her family’s Champagne house alive as it enters its second century. She speaks to us about how she stepped in to take over the business at 28, after never thinking that she would, and how she’s revolutionizing an industry that has always been dominated by men.
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Reality Bites with Christina Crawford
in Chef
Christina Crawford has a storied history in food—from working in West Coast restaurants as a teen to cutting her teeth at Chez Pannise to leading food innovation at a coffee roaster in Kenya. Now, Christina is taking the fermentation world by storm as the founder of TART, where she ferments small batch traditional double-fermented vinegar.
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Life in 10 Tracks with Zenat Begum
in Activist, Entrepreneur
Life in 10 Tracks is a new feature series that is all about being injected into a moment in someone’s life through music. In it, passersby reminisce on the tracks that remind them of bad haircuts, breakups, and all of the joyful, poignant moments in between. Up first is Zenat Begum, activist, and founder of Playground Coffee Shop and its branches Playground Annex and Playground Youth. Together, her organizations support the community of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn by providing accessible programming geared towards tackling needs like literacy, food equity, and arts & culture. Music has always played a prominent part in Zenat’s life, and under her umbrella too, is Playground Radio, “an independent internet radio station” that provides a platform for artists for are underserved in her community.
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Camera Roll with Vere Van Gool
in Curator
Vere van Gool is an NYC and Paris based curator and writer who has curated for the likes of the New Museum, Anthology Film Archives, and the Architectural Association. She talks to us about how her training in architecture has poised her to see art and architecture as inseparable, how where you live shapes you, and how the pandemic has given her a newfound sense of time and space to think.
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Camera Roll with Zoe Cohen
If you stop into Poppy’s for a morning coffee, you’ll likely catch Zoe Cohen there doing the same before heading home to work. Along with her boyfriend Levi, Cohen runs Wiggle Room — a furniture studio the couple founded after having a hard time finding an ideal coffee table. So now, they make wiggly, colorful tables together. As day turns to evening, you might pass Zoe by while walking around Soho and the Lower East Side or dining at The Odeon, Roman’s, or The Long Island Bar (which, contrary to what you may suspect, is not on Long Island). Read on as Zoe recounts the ups and downs of throwing herself into work, her recent month-long trip to Italy, and her newfound passion for chili crisp.
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Meet Elaine Huntzinger
Elaine has been practicing Traditional Chinese Medicine for most of her life. She performs acupuncture in Paris, and comes to us with a wealth of wisdom on how to keep light and healthy in our bodies, and the advice to never lose curiosity.
Read MoreCamera Roll with Annika Hansteen-Izora
This week we feature Annika Hansteen-Izora, queer artist, poet and designer, creative director of @ethelsclub, @formnoform, @somewhere__good and @black.feast. We talk with Annika about exploration, storytelling, and how living ‘many lives’ in a day is actually possible.
Read MoreCamera Roll with Dania Shihab
in Doctor
Camera roll is a new interview series where we get a glance into the current moment via the mundane and the ordinary; the life lived in this moment of a global pandemic. This week we are featuring Dania Shihab, a first-generation Iraqi immigrant doctor turned record label owner. During times in which the word ‘medical emergency’ is in our daily news, talking to Dania is a glimpse of light in dark times. Words create sounds which inhabit our (temporary) isolated lives.
Read MoreCamera Roll with Natassia Dreams
in Pornstar
Camera roll is a new interview series where we glimpse into the current moment via the mundane and the ordinary; the life lived in this moment of a global pandemic. This week we are featuring Natassia Dreams, a Californian transgender pornstar based in New York City, winner of the TEA Lifetime Achievement Award as well three-time nominee of the XBIZ Awards.
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Meet Lindsey Tramuta
in Writer, Journalist
American writer and journalist Lindsey Tramuta has spent decades pulling back the curtain on the real and evolving Paris and the mythologized Parisian woman—red-lipped, white, thin, bourgeois, seductive, and perfectly composed. Sharing the spirit of Passerbuys, Lindsey’s work reveals “Parisianness” in all its multiplicity while highlighting those who are bucking tradition, making names for themselves, and transforming the city. She shares her journey of moving to Paris as an American and her path to becoming a writer and publishing 2 books.
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