Meet Astrid: AMP⚡️ guest writer with a world of food wisdom
Author, surfer, traveler, former rugby pro
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I’ve always believed that the best people you meet in life are the ones who’ve eaten from more food cultures than the languages they speak.
People who follow a hunch about the perfect roadside empanada, or track down a half-remembered meal recommendation through backalley shortcuts and landmarks iconic enough to outshine language barriers or jet lag.
That’s why I’m beyond stoked to welcome Author, surfer, former rugby pro as our first AMP⚡️ guest contributor.
Well-traveled breakfast
Astrid & I have been playing inbox-tag for months now about a favorite breakfast recipe of hers. Across 15 time zones, through her extended stay in Morocco, and into her current travels back through her Southeast Asian home turf.
In that time, we’ve both been through surprises, good & bad, and all manner of reality checks in our respective, never-met-in-person lives on opposite sides of our beautiful planet.
But the handful of factors that crossed our paths in the first place kept our occasional inbox conversation alive:
Food choices informed by our respective sports backgrounds.
Treating healthy food as powerful fuel and the world’s best medicine.
Traveling far or just down the road, always seeking out food culture that speaks for its place of origin & owns the ground it stands on.
And the underlying connection in that DM thread: The very distinct ways Astrid and I make a savory breakfast from the same four ingredients.
Eggs, potatoes, cheese and onion. Those four humble foods brought each of us back to our DM thread countless times across two oceans, three continents, and at least two seasons.
Welcome to the AMP⚡️ table, Astrid!
It just got a hell of a lot more interesting.
Meet Astrid
If you don’t know Astrid yet, you’re about to meet a special soul. Author, surfer, former pro rugby player, relentless traveler, and most importantly, a food lover.
She’s the kind of world traveler who’ll find a hostel closest to her next surf spot or her first meal in-country.
The kind who’ll live out of a backpack for a chance to taste the world, for the hope of winning a match, or for the surf at a new beach out past what her eyes have seen before.
Make time for a few paragraphs of Astrid's vibe, and your day will feel nicer for it.
I know better than to speak for anyone else, but my impression is that Astrid's "Why" is about living a life bigger than those little fears that hold most people back.
You can find Astrid in her own words here:
Paradise on a plate
We’re all human. Hungry, chaotic, loving, sweating, occasionally hungover humans. And we all need to eat.
Astrid gets that. She’s built to stretch a five-ingredient grocery budget into a life memory savored over warm sand with palm shadows and ocean views.
Paradise on a plate. Joy where you choose to find it. And she's bringing that energy here.
What's next?
The backbone of the AMP⚡️ playbook is time-efficient, cost-effective batch-meal mods that might feel familiar to anyone with North American roots similar to mine.
But Astrid?
Astrid’s bringing something else to the table. Flavors from North Africa; from all corners of Asia. She cooks like she lives — fast, fierce, and far from boring.
You’ll want to stick around for a glimpse of Astrid's cooking style. It’s not something sourced from Pinterest but wisdom earned in her travels by eating with locals, cooking over faraway beaches, savoring fresh fruits from open-air markets, and chasing flavor across four continents just to feel alive.
Maybe she'll come back to honor us with her next travel-inspired recipe, surfing pictures, or pro rugby stories from places most of us only daydream about.
Think: Thai street noodles you can meal-prep on a budget. North African breakfast bowls for post-surf mornings. And the occasional deep dive into what food security really means when you’re 3,000 miles from the place you packed your bags.
Imagine the possibilities for a globe-trotting foodie with the world at her feet.
Expect authenticity. Expect equality. Expect a chance of colorful language.
Welcome to the AMP⚡️ table, Astrid! It just got a hell of a lot more interesting.
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I'm so honored to be part of this and to be the first feature! 🤩Thank you Chuck!🙏🏽 Excited to share and learn from AMP! 💪🏽