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Cheers to Creating Spring in the Kitchen A Harbor Country cookbook author discovers Michigan, and reveals her ingredients for a happy life By Megan Swoyer Photos by Gabrielle Sukich
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lipping through the pages of Lindsay Navama’s cookbook, you can’t help but change your dinner plans in a split second. From Unexpectedly Delicious Kale Salad to BeetRed Sunset Salmon with Miso to Third Coast Seafood Pasta Baked in Parchment, soul-satisfying recipes abound — and they’re accompanied by beautiful photos by Gabrielle Sukich. Navama, a wife and mother who splits her time between a home in Chicago and a cottage in beautiful southwest Michigan’s Union Pier, was inspired to create “Hun82
gry for Harbor Country” (Agate Midway) after learning to live a “deeper, slower life, with more connected living,” she says. While sipping on a hot green tea (“it’s a nutty variety with flavors of brown, popped rice,” the food expert explains), Navama, who grew up in a small town in California, shares that she wanted to flee that little town as soon as she was old enough. And that she did, moving to Los Angeles and then Chicago. But as the years went on, the pensive Navama realized that she missed the feeling of community. “When my husband (David) and I discovered Harbor Country (just an hour-
and-a-half drive from the city), I felt very nostalgic for what a small community can offer,” she says. After she and David bought their first cottage in 2017, in New Buffalo, they fell so in love with the area that they decided to move to a larger cottage in Union Pier. The couple ended up spending about 75 percent of their time there, if not more — especially during the pandemic. Navama even talked her parents into moving to New Buffalo from their home in California. “Here, I can give our daughter (18month-old Stella) constant access to nature. That’s a priceless gift,” the author says.
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