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New York Times
15-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
How a TikTok Cook Spends Her Sundays
Justine Doiron didn't plan on becoming a recipe developer when she moved to New York in 2016. She was fresh out of Cornell University's hospitality program and had embarked on a career in public relations. Cooking was just a hobby then. Today, she's better known by her online moniker Justine Snacks and shares recipe videos with 2.3 million followers on TikTok. Ms. Doiron, 30, first gave TikTok a whirl in April 2020. Since the app's main audience seemed to be teenagers, she geared her content toward them with trending recipes for sushi cakes and pasta flowers. Eventually, her style morphed into what she's best known for today: approachable, veggie-forward recipes paired with stories from her day-to-day life. She recently published 'Justine Cooks: A Cookbook' and has another one in the works. All of Ms. Doiron's recipe testing, on and off camera, is done in the kitchen of her 250-year-old wood frame house in the Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn. 'I'm really building out my dream life in the house, because this year's been the year of Martha Stewart and Ina Garten, and their resurgence of this 'nostalgia core,'' she said. Ms. Doiron lives with her fiancé, Eric Lipka, 31, an intelligence analyst, their French bulldog, Walter, and their rescue cat, Gladiator. EARLY TO RISE I wake up at 6 a.m. if not earlier. I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping lately, which I guess just comes with age and general anxiety about things (love that). I also really like my mornings to myself. I use the first hour of the morning to ingest coffee like it's my job and write down my general outline and plans for the week. TO MARKET TO MARKET I go to the Carroll Gardens Greenmarket as my grossest self. I'm just pajamas-to-jeans, a T-shirt, a puffy jacket, a coat, beanie, puffy eyes and S.P.F. on my face, and I'm out the door by 7:30 a.m. I like seeing everything at its fullest potential. I don't like to feel like I might have missed out something. Carroll Gardens has ACQ Bread Co., which is my favorite bread in the entire city — it's everyone's favorite bread. They have a line down the block no matter how early I am to the market. Every two weeks I get their Living Bread, which has seeds and sprouts. GUILTY PLEASURE Afterward, I pop into Trader Joe's. It's a 10-minute walk from the Carroll Gardens market, so the amount of guilt I feel walking into Trader Joe's with two tote bags filled of vegetables that aren't theirs, to get five cans of chickpeas, some edamame and some coffee creamer, is crazy, but it's part of my routine. Then I take the subway home. LEISURELY BREAKFAST My big luxury is a big, slow breakfast, my shower and being lazy for the next 90 minutes. For breakfast, I toast two slices of the Living Bread I just bought, and then I like to boil jammy eggs. I'm a three egg kind of girl, and I mash them up with chili, flaky salt, red wine vinegar, black pepper and I just put that on the toast. It's a great time to get avocado, so if I have blessed myself with a ripened avocado and have that available, that'll go on there too. Eric, if he's lucky enough, and awake and hungry, will get the same. FIXER UPPER Our house is amazing, but when we got it it needed some tender love and care. I really want a Brooklyn garden in the backyard (which is just concrete, let's be honest). We're making garden beds that have good drainage, and I'm watching the sun and seeing where it'll go. Soon, I'll start seeds on the third floor of the house. TEST KITCHEN I'm usually so excited and inspired by ingredients, especially right when I get them, because nothing hits like the vegetables you just buy. They're at their peak gorgeousness and freshness. I'm currently in the throes of working on book No. 2, so I do a quick little recipe test, or a quick little, 'let's put these flavors together with this ingredient and kind of see where it nets out.' Maybe this will turn into an idea further down the line. We're not super hungry since we had a late breakfast, so it's a little peckish recipe test snack. EARLY BIRD I'm such a morning person and a lazy night person that sometimes we meet our friends for just drinks or aperitivo. Agi's Counter is in our neighborhood, and that's my favorite place. I like to get the window seat (if you know, you know) and just get something super cozy there for dinner. CLEAN UP I have kept this habit since my 9-to-5 corporate days. I can't start a week without feeling some semblance of: normalcy, control, clean. I just straighten the house, do whatever laundry I can and make sure the kitchen's clean. It takes me about an hour, and I do it while listening to a podcast like 'Las Culturistas.' It used to be so much more intense, but I've relaxed now that we have a dog and a cat and I share the home with somebody else. I realize I've let go of a lot of control of things, but the cleaning has stayed. EARLY TO BED Eric and I are together most of the day, but we like to prioritize hanging out all in the same room. He might be logging on and finishing up some emails, while I read and prepare to fall asleep. I've really gotten into reading. I loved 'The Wedding People' by Alison Espach and I'm getting back into reading Maggie O'Farrell — I leap at her books anytime they're available on the library's Libby app. I'm in this phase of my life where I completely understand how lucky I am to have so much peace and so much freedom with my schedule. I use that freedom to go to bed on the earlier side.
CBC
25-02-2025
- Climate
- CBC
Sports teams, city officials cross their fingers for quick repairs to Summerside's damaged dome
Island athletes and Summerside officials are hoping the P.E.I. city's sports dome can reopen sooner rather than later after a technical mishap last week caused some damage and forced the facility's shutdown. "I can't stress [enough] the importance of the dome to us, and we look forward to going back," said Mary Jane Webster, president of the P.E.I. Rugby Union. "We get the ability to really provide game-like situations for our athletes, and we can do full contact, which is a huge benefit for us." The $5-million dome over a huge indoor turf field opened in time for the 2023 Canada Winter Games, which were hosted by the province. Warm air is continuously pumped into the dome to keep its roof inflated, allowing teams to use the facility year-round. But about two weeks ago, the dome and other large electricity users in the western P.E.I. municipality began having to use backup power from generators. That's because Maritime Electric asked users to curtail power use during peak times — in the mornings and evenings — while it worked to repair a transformer at the Sherbrooke substation that is a conduit for half of Summerside's power. During that time, the dome's servers temporarily disconnected, which led to a slight deflation of the roof. That caused damage to some of the cables that support the structure, said Tanner Doiron, the city's events and communications manager. "It's a unique beast. Obviously if this comes down, you know, it's not good," Doiron said. "There's a lot of small things that can cause error…. While it might look simple on the outside, there [are] a lot of different moving parts mechanically." A crew with the Montreal-based company that installed the dome is expected on the Island later this week to do a safety inspection, and replacement parts have been ordered. The dome is now off the generators and running on full power as a safety precaution, Doiron said. "We're hopeful that it's not going to require a long-term repair. However, this is a specialized facility," he said. "I'm hopeful they'll have it back in service… within a week's time, but we also don't want to have our users in there if it's unsafe to do so." Sports groups flexible, for now Like the rugby teams that practise there, some soccer programs also had to readjust their schedules while the dome is offline. Jason Eden, executive director of the P.E.I. Soccer Association, said its Wednesday leagues have had to cancel one game so far, while Saturday practices have been moved to Stratford. He said there is some flexibility in scheduling, so long as the dome isn't closed for too long. "Everybody's just kind of sitting around wondering: 'How long will this facility be offline?' I think we'll get more into that concern from the players if it looks like it's extended beyond the one-week to two-week period," Eden said.
CBC
13-02-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
In 1996 Julie Doiron released a breakup song. Decades later, it's gone viral
When she was 21, singer-songwriter Julie Doiron broke up with one of her bandmates and wrote a melancholy song about it. Not for a moment did the Moncton musician think her song would be heard millions of times nearly 30 years later. "We had just finished touring," said Doiron, who was the bassist for the iconic indie-alternative band Eric's Trip back in the early 1990s. And what happened next provided the inspiration for the song August 10, which appeared on her 1996 album Broken Girl. "I can remember the drive back from the tour … where we decided that we were breaking up." In mid-November last year, Doiron learned from one of her daughters that the song seemed to be growing in popularity. "Mom, I think maybe one of your songs is starting to go viral," her daughter told her. The song was starting to gain traction on the video app TikTok and at that point had been used under a thousand times in videos. And when she checked Spotify, a music streaming service, the numbers were still relatively normal — at around 20,000 streams. But as the days went by, those numbers went up. And up. "I didn't even tell my management team for the first week or so," Doiron said. "I just didn't want anyone to mess with it. I just wanted to see what would happen kind of naturally." As of Wednesday, the Spotify streams for the song clocked in at nearly 40 million, and more than 33,000 videos have been created using that song on TikTok — not counting the numerous covers versions of August 10 that have been posted to the app. Her other songs have received a boost because of the renewed interest, but none compare to August 10. Her second most-streamed song on Spotify, Soon, Coming Closer, has just under 900,000, also from the same album. The numbers continue to grow by the day, and Doiron said her team is putting Broken Girl and her second album, Loneliest in the Morning, out on vinyl. She has a few shows coming up to celebrate the vinyl releases, and it will be interesting to revisit all the old songs that she hasn't played in years. She thinks the reason people are connecting with the song is that it's not "a big production, let's say, and I think that it's intimate." Doiron also noticed the majority of people streaming her song are aged 18 to 24 — the same age she was when she recorded the songs on Broken Girl. The album includes the viral breakup song, as well as songs about finding out she was pregnant for the first time and about her grandmother, who died before the baby was born. For Doiron, it was a lot happening all at once, and she still felt like a kid finding her way the world for the first time. "I think that 21-year-old Julie, when she would have been writing these songs, I mean, she had to write them," Doiron said.
