I’m Pia, a 30 31 32 33-year old living in Boston. I like to experiment and see what I can cook up in my tiny new apartment kitchen which I share with a Betta fish named Fish Pepe le Bleu Iggy and a boyfriend husband named Mike. Sometimes I work on other crafty creations like knitting or crocheting. Lately I’ve discovered quilting with my new sewing machine. I like Ruby Red grapefruits, cashmere, brown rice, most shades of blue and taking public transportation. I am sometimes indecisive and I recently added chicken back into my diet, after a 10+ year hiatus. Many of the recipes here are vegetarian or vegan. I work in professional services marketing for a landscape architecture firm where I focus on activities that gain new work for the firm.

Mike and I share an attic-level apartment with sloped ceilings on the top floor of a 3-family house.  We have developed a unique kitchen rhythm where we can both cook and somehow not endanger each other with hot pans or sharp knives. bought our first home (a condo apartment, really) this past year and love our new kitchen. The space is vastly larger than our previous kitchen. New amenities include a gas stove, a dishwasher, and walk-in pantry. I get excited every time I walk into it.

Mike is a photographer and teacher who likes being my primary taste-tester, running, playing the guitar, books by Joseph Campbell and photographs by Alfred Steiglitz.

You can contact me with questions, thoughts, recipe ideas, product review requests, etc. through the comment section on this blog or by email via  pia [at] breadandbeta [dot] com. I love to hear from you!

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