Sohla El-Waylly Lives For Sleek Slip-Ons and Green Pepper Hot Sauce
BA editors love to shop as much as we love to eat. In our column We’re Into It, we share our most important standbys and favorite new finds.
Contributing food editor Sohla El-Waylly spends most of her work days zipping around her home kitchen developing recipes for Bon Appétit, so she needs gear that can handle the heat. When she’s not feeding humans, you’ll find her buying only the best snacks for her Shiba Inu, Vito, and turning her kitchen into “a fancy pub”—more on that in a bit. So, from scales that are great under pressure to the clarifying face mask she swears by, El-Waylly walks us through those favorites and more.
“In the Test Kitchen, I have a strict knife sharpening process. But when I’m at home, I can’t get myself to follow the whole routine. Luckily, this Mac ceramic sharpener hones my Japanese knives in just a few strokes, giving me enough edge to get by until I finally find the motivation to bust out those whetstones.”
“I’m one of the lucky 35-year-olds who still get acne, but it’s cool because Dr. Dennis Gross got me. A night in this clarifying mask shrinks pores and leaves my skin looking more Andy Baraghani–like. What more could a girl ask for!”
“Because my Shiba Inu, Vito, isn’t usually motivated by food, he can be pretty hard to control. These Icelandic+ herring fish treats are just about the only things that will get him to obey my commands. They have just one ingredient: naturally dried whole fish without any salt or preservatives. Power has never been so pure.”
