Q: My mother keeps emailing me recipes—mostly from The New York Times, always “healthy” ones—accompanied by long-winded notes about how healthy they are. Lots of bean soups and slow-digesting salads. We have a long history of tense dynamics around food, health, and dieting. But I’m pretty sure she means well and thinks this is a nice way to communicate with me from a distance. How do I ask her to stop?
Emily P.
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Carrie Brownstein is a musician and a writer/director in film and television. She was the cocreator and costar of the Emmy and Peabody Award–winning comedy series Portlandia. Brownstein has directed television shows for HBO, HBO Max, NBC, Comedy Central, and Hulu. She also directed a short film for KENZO starring Mahershala Ali and Natasha Lyonne. Brownstein is a founding member of the seminal punk-rock band Sleater-Kinney and author of the New York Times best-selling memoir Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
