"Now that he lives alone in Brooklyn, he's trying to feel more comfortable cooking for guests. "A big journey for me has been learning not to be self-conscious about it," he says. He spends most of his days bouncing between writing, going to shows, and recording his breakout podcast, Exploration: Live!, with co-host Natalie Rotter-Laitman, which takes observational comedy and applies a touch of the profound. (A recent conversation about reality television evolved into one about a general fear of the unknown.)"
"Wednesday, August 20This Wednesday morning, as is the case every morning if I'm home, I have the same breakfast: Greek yogurt, watered down a little bit, with blueberries and a little jam. It is completely essential to my life that I wake up and have basically the same thing every day. Otherwise, the decision of what to have for breakfast completely breaks me. If I'm missing a component piece (the yogurt, the berries), I lose an hour short-circuiting."
"I always get my blueberries from Mr. Kale, my favorite grocer in the city, part of the Mr. Fruit chain celebrated in this very magazine. Let me add to the chorus: It's fabulous. Open 24 hours, and the produce is so cheap. The other night, I bought two pints of blueberries for two bucks each. It's perfect for my lifestyle since I usually come home pretty late, maybe because I internalized the wrong lesson from the song "Cabaret" from the musical Cabaret."
Charlie Bardey is a lifelong New Yorker who recently moved to live alone in Brooklyn and is learning to feel comfortable cooking for guests. He spends days writing, going to shows, and recording the podcast Exploration: Live! with Natalie Rotter-Laitman, blending observational comedy with occasional profundity. His meals alternate between rigid routines and spontaneous plans, with a ritual breakfast of Greek yogurt, blueberries, and jam that he finds essential. He sources blueberries from Mr. Kale, a cheap, 24-hour grocer. Bardey experiences strong aversion to having nothing to do on a Friday night.
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