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Tips On Cooking For a Lover

Tips On Cooking For a Lover

Chin Lu's personal recipe for a truly romantic meal

Chin Lu
Feb 14, 2022
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The first time I made risotto was for my first college boyfriend Alejandro1. It was his birthday, and as a work-study student, I couldn’t afford to take him out to a nice restaurant, so I decided to cook a three-course dinner to surprise him. I purposely chose risotto to be the entree exactly because most people know it’s a dish that takes…

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Chin Lu
🇹🇼🇺🇸 1.5-generation immigrant. Intersectional feminist writer published on Vice, Catapult & more + freelance content strategist. SF ➡️ Lake Tahoe @ChinHuaLu on everything, except I deleted Twitter.
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