Jess Damuck is a cook, food stylist, and writer. Her new cookbook Salad Freak is out now. We chat with her from her home in Los Angeles about, fruit mongers, who are to blame for The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jess got the “Grammy’s Cough,” sheer garden party chaos, she should be Jewish, we take botox for our TMJ, working for Marta Stewart, melon balls over ice, why she calls her boyfriend “smoothie,” Chris gets to the bottom of celery, nicotine gum, meditative cooking with intention, plating on mushrooms, Jess’ love of Morrissey, Jess’ East Hampton metal band, and what her boyfriend Ben’s face looks like without a beard.

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