There's a deodorant I wear called Baux, from L'Occitane, that is super nostalgic because it reminds me of being in Greece in the summer. When I put it on, I'm immediately taken back to that feeling of having salty skin and hair from the ocean and the taste of fresh fish.

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Learn how to treat your vegetables with the love and kindness that they deserve.

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treat deserve kindness love

Food can offer a moment of pure emotional pleasure in an otherwise hard and difficult world.

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moment emotional food world

I have a deep and pathological obsession with trees and plants.

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trees plants deep obsession

I always take a shower now before I go to bed. It's so important just to cleanse everything off.

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everything go always important

There should be no rules at your dinner party except for people to eat a lot and enjoy a long night where they feel like they could fall asleep at the dinner table at the end.

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dinner night long people

My biggest nightmare is that something doesn't have enough salt.

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something salt nightmare enough

My T-shirts wrinkle because I sweat a lot.

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t-shirts lot because sweat

Food not only connects us at the idyllic dinner table setting with family and friends: it is also part of our mundane, daily transit to and from work.

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daily family work food

Montreal is just so multicultural and ethnic and diverse, and it's what makes us special. I say 'us' like I still live there, but I still do feel like a Montrealer.

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live say feel special

I've always considered myself a little more fluid along the spectrum. So even being called bisexual... I remember, in my early twenties, I was like, 'But bisexual means I can only like girls and guys. What if I like something else?'

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myself always i-can remember

My background is in psychology - that's what my bachelor's degree is from, and my specialization.

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bachelor degree background psychology

How I show love has always been through food. That, for me, has been the foundation of how I express gratitude for anybody around me.

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me gratitude food love

A cheese dip is good - it's for when you're like, 'You know what, I've had a long day. I'm just gonna eat a big bowl of cheese, and I'm not gonna care about it.'

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day good you long

My comfort zone is in a kitchen.

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comfort-zone zone kitchen comfort

If I'm in Italy at a certain time of year, I'll make sure to try fresh porcini mushrooms in risotto, or puntarelle, a sort of curled chicory leaf that's only available for a few weeks in May.

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leaf fresh try time

I really enjoy being vulnerable, and it's how I connect with other people, and part of how I do that is through food, by sharing something that I feel is very intimate and personal because it's something that I create out of nothing.

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feel enjoy food people

When I was around 18, I got kicked out of my parents' house, and I wasn't allowed to take anything with me. I slept on YMCA towels for a whole semester in university before my father found out and bought me a mattress. I felt really free because I was finally living on my own, but I was also really depressed because I had nothing.

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parents me my-own father

I don't cook around heat in my underwear.

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cook around underwear heat

I'm definitely more of an extreme eater. I'm decadent on weekends and try to go plant-based during the week with a bit of fish - pescatarian thrown in.

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fish more try go

I'm someone who's experienced impostor syndrome - as I think a lot of people have with their careers, especially when they pursue what they're passionate about, because they want to be good at it. I've experienced that as a gay man; I've experienced that as a cook, as a gallery director, as a student of psychology.

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good man gay people