
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Man Known as 'Putin's Chef,' Explained
Yevgeny Prigozhin gives Vladimir Putin a tour of his school lunch factory in 2010. | Alexey Druzhinin/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images
As head of the Kremlin-backed Wagner Group, Prigozhin is a cog in Putin's war against Ukraine. He's also, inexplicably, a caterer. This summer, Yevgeny Prigozhin became an official Hero of the Russian Federation, reportedly honored for his work running the Wagner Group, a network of private Russian mercenaries that's created hav...
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The Creemee Is the Ultimate Taste of Vermont Summer
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Ben & Jerry's may claim to be "Vermont's Finest," but locals know nothing beats the state's unique take on maple soft serve Ice cream kingpins Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield have brought international ice cream fame to Vermont, the second-least-populated state in the U.S. They've slapped "Vermont's Finest" on pints of Ben & Jerry's before sending them around the world. But, as popu...
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The 38 Essential Seoul Restaurants
Gwangjang Market. | Anthony Wallace/AFP/Getty Images
From a luxe barbecue feast at an exclusive basement counter, to fried chicken and spicy rice cakes at an old school beer bar, here's where to eat in Seoul Seoul's food traditions extend back centuries, from the hearty bowls of seolleongtang (ox bone soup) found in cozy restaurants to the simple vegan fare of Buddhist temples. But the Korean capital's dining scene has experienced a sea change in the last de...
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Classic Tomato Sandwich Recipe
When tomatoes are at their summertime peak of ripeness, this Southern classic makes sure to let them shine, sandwiching thick slices between white bread and mayo.
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How the Best Anchovies Make It to San Francisco Restaurants
Kenny Belov is a former restaurateur working to ensure Bay Area restaurants receive fresh anchovies Kenny Belov thinks you're eating anchovies wrong. "You're putting poor quality anchovies on poor quality pizza, it's as simple as that," says Belov, owner of sustainable seafood company provider TwoXSea. "Unfortunately, that's most Americans experiences with anchovies."
While working in restaurants, Belov found it surprising how difficult it was for fishmon...
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The Menu at Martha Stewart's New Las Vegas Restaurant Couldn't Be More Perfect
Martha Stewart at the grand opening of her new restaurant. | Denise Truscello/Getty Images
It's peak '90s glam and I am extremely here for it After decades of influencing food culture via her cookbooks, television show(s), and now-defunct magazine, lifestyle queen Martha Stewart is finally opening her first full-service restaurant, and the menu couldn't be more perfect.
Called the Bedford by Martha Stewart, the restaurant opened its doors inside the Paris ...
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Vishwesh Bhatt's Eggplant and Okra Caponata Recipe Is Summer Personified
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In his new cookbook, 'I Am From Here,' the celebrated chef puts a Southern riff on a Sicilian classic The first time Vishwesh Bhatt ate caponata, it was at Susan Spicer's New Orleans restaurant Bayona. As a lover of eggplant, Bhatt was so smitten by the Sicilian dish that he decided to put his own version on the menu at Snackbar, the Oxford, Mississippi, restaurant where he has been the executive chef since 2009....
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Apologies to 'The Bear,' but We Have Already Seen Peak 'Sexually Competent Dirtbag Line Cook'
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Magnus Lund from HBO's 2020 show "Love Life" takes the cake Hulu's The Bear has skyrocketed the concept of "sexually competent dirtbag line cook" into the collective consciousness. The concept and phrase was introduced in a viral tweet (and later, an article in Bon Appetit) by podcaster Sarah York upon seeing a promotional image of the character Carmy (played by Jeremy Allen White) from The Bear (she had not actually seen the show). Th...
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Finally, I Can Fulfill My Fantasy of Licking a Dive Bar Wall
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(Said no one ever) The proper dive bar is a multisensory experience. There's the whiff of that baked-into-the-walls bouquet of spilled beer, long-lingering cigarette smoke, and industrial cleaning products; the feeling of sliding against the upholstery of a musty banquette until you encounter some weird sticky spot (if not there, on the scratched up table or floor). Now, at long last, these oddities that dive bar regulars accept as part of the a...
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The 5 Best Bites I Ate in LA
Assorted pastries from Mil Bakery in LA. | Stephanie Wu/Eater
And introducing our new travel newsletter A version of this post originally appeared on August 13, 2022, in Stephanie Wu's newsletter, "From the Editor," a roundup of the most vital news and stories in the food world. Read the archives and subscribe now.
I'm often asked how I plan my meals when I'm traveling, and the truth is, like anyone else, I start by reading our Eater city site. I was in...
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Facebook Scammers Stole Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars Posing as Luxury Restaurant Suppliers
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The discounted Alaskan king crab legs and caviar were too good to be true "It was so cheap it was unheard of," says Ruth (last name withheld by request), a healthcare professional in Texas. In February 2022, a Facebook ad popped up on her smartphone with a deal on Maine lobster tails that seemed too good to pass up. "There were a lot of red flags, but it was a legitimate company," she says. The online seller claimed to be Regalis Foods, a...
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Scotch Eggs
These tasty bites of bar food were created in England (named for the store that sold them). They originally were covered in fish paste. We'll stick with the sausage version, thank you!
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So How Are Things Going for the 'South Park' Creators at Casa Bonita?
Casa Bonita in June 2022. | Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post via Getty Images
Turns out, running a restaurant is hard Last summer was a simpler, more innocent time. It was, like, four COVID variants ago, some of us were awash in mac and cheese ice cream, and if you said the words "bear" and "Chicago" to me in the same sentence, what instantly came to mind was wandering into the Lincoln Park Zoo on my high school lunch break, or maybe my seventh-grade boyfrien...
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An Arepa Recipe That Blooms With Creativity
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Mercedes Golip's floral arepas are as beautiful as they are easy to make I have a lifelong relationship with arepas: I was born and raised in Venezuela, where arepas are not just a nutritious and comforting dish, but also one of the most important culinary legacies of the pre-Hispanic era.
One of the arepa's many regional varieties is the arepa pelada; "pelar," which means peeled, alludes to nixtamalization, the chemical process that r...
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Michael Twitty Goes Deep Into the Black Jewish Kitchen
In his new book, "Koshersoul," the author of "The Cooking Gene" explores the intersections of African and Jewish diaspora cuisine and identity On the very first page of Koshersoul, culinary historian Michael Twitty is already fighting to be understood. Twitty, whose 2017 memoir The Cooking Gene uses food to trace his ancestry from Africa through the slave trade and the American South, is asked by another writer if he's traded writing about Black food for Jewish...
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The Best Pasta Shape Is Fusilli Corti Bucati
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I've forsaken all pasta shapes in favor of this one I'm not sure I ever wondered, back when they existed, what it would feel like to chew on the coils of a telephone cord. But in this mostly wireless world, I can now say I don't think it would have been that bad: My new favorite pasta shape is essentially a telephone cord, or maybe those no-tie elastic shoelaces, except extruded from gluten. Chewy springs, I've learned, make for ...
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Hashweh
Spices bloomed in ghee add complexity to this celebratory Palestinian dish.
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Sign Up for the Eater Travel Newsletter
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Dispatches from the world's most delicious destinations, delivered straight to your inbox If you're anything like Eater's staff, you've planned an entire trip around a certain type of food, made a restaurant reservation before you've purchased a plane ticket, and/or needed to remind yourself to schedule other activities between meals.
If this sounds familiar, Eater's latest newsletter is for you. Sign up to receive bi-weekly-ish dispa...
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Coca-Cola Please Calm Down
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I do not need soda that tastes like "surrealism of the subconscious"!! There is nowhere for Coca-Cola to go. It is the standard of the soda industry, such that I cannot come up with an apt comparison because every time I try to think of a company whose name has become synonymous with a whole type of product my mind immediately thinks "Coca-Cola." We all know what Coke is, even those late to the game — there is no one left...
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How California's Two-Michelin-Starred Harbor House Makes a 60-Day-Aged Pork Shoulder
Chef Matthew Kammerer wants to show how a two-star restaurant can be still serve humble ingredients At two-Michelin-starred restaurant Harbor House in Elk, California, chef Matthew Kammerer sources fresh ingredients from within 20 miles to create dishes like barbecued kohlrabi, Devil's Gulch squab, and more. One particular dish Kammerer and the restaurant is proud of is a 60-day aged pork shoulder, served in cuts grilled like a steak.
"It sounds unassuming; people wo...
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Shrimp & Corn Chowder
Amazing how some shrimp and corn can turn some creamy potato soup into something spectacular that tastes like you made it from scratch.
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How I Got My Job: Writing Children's Books About Food
Sarah Thomas, author of Kalamata's Kitchen. | Chancelor Humphrey
Somewhere between "Dora the Explorer" and "No Reservations," Sarah Thomas's book series "Kalamata's Kitchen" introduces kids to global cultures through food In How I Got My Job, folks from across the food and restaurant industry answer Eater's questions about, well, how they got their job. Today's installment: Sarah Thomas.
If you're a parent of young children, you might alre...
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Food-Scented Candles Are the Latest Trend in Restaurant Merch
The Junior's x Literie candle. | Literie
Your home can smell like a Junior's cheesecake, Katz's egg cream, or a Shake Shack burger At least since the dawn of Yankee Candle, a whole lot of candles are created to smell like food. Think back to the vanilla-scented '90s, or simply browse of the offerings at Bath and Body Works, which slings candles scented like a pumpkin spice latte or strawberry pound cake. But a new crop of fancy scented candles hopes to ma...
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Nigerian Meat Pies
A hand pie of minced beef, onions, carrots, potatoes in a curry-spiced sauce makes the perfect at-home snack.
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Going to Medieval Times Is Even Better as an Adult
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The uniquely grown-up joys (and surprisingly good food) of over-the-top Middle Ages dinner theater Often drenched in '90s nostalgia, there is no place on earth quite like Medieval Times. I had been to Medieval Times — essentially Middle Ages dinner theater with horses, sword fights, and a simple meal that you eat with your hands — a few times in the '90s, at least once on a school field trip and another time with my family. I had fond memories of ...
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Za'atar
Fragrant herbs dried at home create a blend that pairs perfectly with countless dishes (and is perfect even on its own).
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Making Arancine, a Sicilian Street Food Staple That's Gooey, Crunchy, and Cheesy, All at the Same Time
The deep fried rice balls are "the queen of Sicilian street food" says Guiseppe Di Forti, the chef of Ke Palle Arancine d'Autore, which specializes in the classic snack At the cafe Ke Palle Arancine d'Autore, chef Guiseppe Di Forti rolls and deep-fried balls of gooey, cheesy, parboiled rice to make arancine, a street food favorite in Sicily. It is "perhaps the queen of Sicilian street food," says Di Forti.
While traditional arancine consists of just rice, che...
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Milk Bar Is Junk Food Now
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No longer just riffing on lowbrow flavors, Christina Tosi's Milk Bar's collab with Taco Bell puts it fully in the mainstream When Christina Tosi began making desserts at Momofuku in the mid-2000s, they were all about playful, inventive takes on mainstream sweets. In 2008, when she opened the first Milk Bar, things like cereal milk-flavored soft serve, truffles that tasted like "birthday cake," and cookies stuffed with cornflakes and and potato c...
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A Summer Berry Streusel Cake Recipe Inspired by an Ice Cream Icon
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Just like Jeni's Brambleberry Crisp, this cake boasts the perfect ratio of jammy fruit to crunchy oat streusel Having grown up in Columbus, Ohio, Graeter's and Jeni's were always my go-to spots for grabbing a cold, creamy treat on summer nights. While my friends tended to gravitate toward Jeni's 'gram-ready vibes and unexpected flavors (goat cheese with red cherries, anyone?), my dad has always been an outspoken Graeter's devotee, p...
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Inside the Zambian Wedding Tradition That's All About Food
Bichri Photo/Mazuba Kapambwe-Mizzi
During the Ichilanga Mulilo, the bride and her family welcome the groom with a feast The first time my now-husband told me he loved Ethiopian food as much as I did, I thought he was trying way too hard to impress me. Despite the prevalence of Ethiopian restaurants in New York City, many people who I had previously tried to introduce to injera, the spongy flatbread that forms a staple of Ethiopian food, found its sour aftertaste
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Perfect French Bread
This recipe yields a crusty exterior but a soft, chewy interior, just like a good loaf of French bread should (but with the convenience using a bread machine).
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The Ephemeral Appeal of Indie Food Zines
An interior spread of Chicken + Bread. | Chicken + Bread
Why zines are food media's experimental cutting edge I sometimes attribute my growing zine obsession to being — on paper — a book historian. I like the heft of folded paper, sometimes hugged by a cardstock cover, sometimes by a staple pinning sheets together; sometimes, it's just printer paper folded to create a booklet, inked by hand. As much as zines are beautiful as objects, their production runs,...
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An Eater's Guide to Garfagnana, Italy
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Siena and Florence are crowded with tourists, but this lesser traveled corner of Tuscany is a mountainous wonderland for adventurous gourmands Millions of international tourists overrun Tuscany each year, picking over the vineyards in Chianti Classico, packing the region's medieval hamlets, and mobbing the Renaissance masterpieces in Siena and Florence. The summer crowds can seem unrelenting — until you drive about two hours northwest to th...
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How a Gochujang Master Perfected Her 100-Year-Old Recipe
Choi, Myung Hee has also developed an award-winning gochujang recipe that anyone can make at home Choi, Myung Hee is officially a gochujang master — she earned the distinction from South Korea's Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in 2012.
Choi started making gochujang, the fermented chile paste that is essential to Korean cuisine, more than two decades ago, when her mother-in-law taught her how to make it as well as doenjang — a fermented soy paste — and soy s...
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How to Make Moussaka Recipe
A classic Greek dish made of rich, hearty layers of potato, eggplant, and tomato-based meat sauce, blanketed in creamy bechamel.
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The Best Flour for Making Gravy Is Wondra
Unitasker ingredients are often annoying, but Wondra flour is the real deal As a respectable Southern woman, I pride myself on being able to make an excellent gravy. It's a culinary flex, one I am thrilled to flaunt at the dinner table, to transform the humble trio of pan drippings, flour, and milk or broth into a rich, creamy sauce that pairs well with everything from roasted chicken to beautifully seared steak. But my journey to gravy perfection has not been without i...
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McCormick Wants to Be a Cool Spice Brand
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With a recent line of seasonings, McCormick seems eager to compete with modern spice companies, like Burlap & Barrel and Diaspora Co. When I think about McCormick, my mind drifts to my mom's spice cabinet, where stout, red-capped bottles have been collecting dust for decades. During visits home, my siblings and I like to fish out old bottles like bingo balls and gleefully announce their expiration dates — usually closer to our DOBs than ...
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The 38 Essential Vancouver Restaurants
The view from Vancouver's Chinatown. | Joe McNally/Getty Images
From IG-approved flower-shaped pasta at a Venice-style wine bar, to duck liver parfait honey crullers at a buzzy chef's low-key spot, here's where to eat in Canada's thriving food hub Ringed by soaring mountains, with gleaming glass skyscrapers reflected in the still waters that surround its downtown core, Vancouver is easy to love. And as the thriving urban hub of British Columbia and a proud...
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Mashed Potato Raised Donuts
You'd never guess that these delectable glazed donuts rely on potatoes for their melt-in-your-mouth texture.
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Big Easy Cajun Ribs
Down in the Big Easy, everything has to have a spice to it, bland just doesn't work in both culture and in food. These Cajun-rubbed pork ribs fit right in with their jazzy spiced crust.
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My Garbage Bowl Is the Most Important Thing on My Kitchen Counter
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I use it for everything from collecting cooking refuse to displaying fresh fruit I am not one of those people who insists on keeping their counters clear of gadgetry. Nope, I have an absurdly huge ice maker (the kind that makes the good ice, thank you very much), an air fryer, a fancy toaster, and an assortment of canisters and containers. But the most important thing on my counter is my beloved garbage bowl, a catchall for everything from fresh fruit
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Why TikTok's Pink Sauce Was Made to Go Viral
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From millennial pink to Barbiecore, it's no surprise that TikTok's Pink Sauce popped off The writer Katy Kelleher claimed Barbie pink as the "color of the year" in Refinery29 earlier this month, citing its appearance in Greta Gerwig's in-progress Barbie movie and Valentino's recent runway show and TikTok's popular bimbocore subgenre. But what this trend piece didn't see coming? The "Pink Sauce," which started to really squeeze...
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How to Celebrate a Birthday in New York City
A spread of dishes from Hanoi House in New York City. | Stephanie Wu
Three ideas for a low-key celebration A version of this post originally appeared on July 30, 2022, in Stephanie Wu's newsletter, "From the Editor," a roundup of the most vital news and stories in the food world. Read the archives and subscribe now.
Growing up, I bemoaned my summer birthday and the fact that I couldn't celebrate with my friends and classmates during the school year. But a...
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Why Is Butter Temperature So Important in Baking?
Tiffany Jan/Eater
Whether softened or cold or room temperature, applying the right kind of butter can be surprisingly tricky In pretty much every baking recipe, no matter the diversity of the ingredients or range of final products, you can almost guarantee one thing: If the recipe calls for butter, you're going to be told what temperature that butter should be. In pie, butter must be refrigerator-cold. In cookies, for the purpose of creaming with sugar, butter i...
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Kaitlin Bray Named Director of Audience Development for Eater and Punch
Bray will lead a team overseeing social media and audience growth across both editorial networks Kaitlin Bray has been named the director of audience development, Eater and Punch. In this newly created role, Bray will oversee the audience teams for both Eater and Punch, the latter of which joined Vox Media in August 2021.
Bray has been driving audience and social strategy at Punch since June 2019, including growing the drinks-focused site's vibrant Instagram and supp...
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Where to Get Even Better Choco Tacos Around the Country
Lonesome Rose's Choco Taco. | Land & Sea Dept./Alex Hupp
Klondike will not be missed As soon as Klondike announced that the Choco Taco would no longer be, the wailing began. Social media was filled with cries of no, say it ain't so and petitions for Klondike to change its mind. Even Serena Williams's husband (and also the guy who founded Reddit) Alexis Ohanian said he would buy the rights to ensure future generations had a chance to taste a not-as-crisp...
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German Onion Pie
A rich and creamy pie made with yellow onions and bacon that are baked in a sour cream sauce. Serve as a side dish with roasted meats.
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A Strawberry Scones Recipe That Gets It Right
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Scones are the most unappreciated member of the American pastry case. But don't blame the scone, blame the recipe.
I've worked in many different bakeries across New York City over the past eight years, and most of them have the same assortment of fresh-baked morning pastries — staples such as biscuits, muffins, banana bread, and scones. Speaking from experience, muffins are generally the most popular selection. Biscuits also don't stay ...
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The Modern French Corner Store Is Like Shopping in a Rustic Fantasy
Jill Cousin and Saskia Porretta at their epicerie Provisions. | Louise Skadhauge
Rare spices, seasonal flowers, and hyperlocal products line the shelves of epiceries, historical specialty grocers that have been revived in major cities Shortly after noon on a recent Sunday, a 40-something Parisienne bounced into Superfrais, a specialty grocer in the 20th arrondissement, on something of a mission. "Salut les gars! I'm starving. You got any of that pizza left?...
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How Caffeine Became the World's Favorite Drug
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Author Michael Pollan on how coffee and tea awakened a new form of consciousness for Western civilization Whether in the form of tea, coffee, or a potent energy drink, there's no denying the near-universal appeal of caffeine. This tiny molecule has been consumed for centuries in beverages and foods that offer a quick jolt of energy needed to make it through the day. And even though it's not commonly thought of as a drug, or a substance that alters...
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Using School Lunch, Republican Attorneys General Target USDA Anti-Discrimination Policy
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Twenty-two states are suing the USDA over its non-discrimination policies — potentially leaving schoolkids hungry Because it was not enough to try to ban them from playing sports, eliminate access to gender-affirming healthcare, or ban books that include even the mildest of LGBTQ plot lines, Republican attorneys general in 22 states across the country are taking their hatred of queer kids to a whole new level: by targeting the federal free school l...
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A Mexico City Mayor Tried to Erase Street Food Art. The Community Is Fighting Back.
A sign by Giovanni Bautista. | Giovanni Bautista
Brightly painted rótulos are deeply embedded in Mexican graphic culture, but they're under attack in a politically charged effort to "beautify" a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood Since 2004, Tamara De Anda, a Mexican social activist and TV host, has been photographing street art in Mexico City and sharing the images on social media as a sort of exhibition of the silly, profane, and endearing works that color...
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Ruby Tandoh Is Eating Gnocchi With Capers and Chile Crisp for Dinner
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Lately, the cookbook author has been in a cycle of one-pot meals, and this one happens to be "fucking delicious" We all could use a little dinner inspiration — even Ali Slagle, who dreams of dinner. In "Dinner Is Served" she asks colleagues about one night when they somehow transformed ingredients into dinner with all this life going on.
This month's installment: Ruby Tandoh's essay collection Eat Up! and her forthcom...
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What Are We Wearing to Restaurants Now, Philly?
Naomieh Jovin
At Booker's, a Southern food destination in West Philly, brunch brings out geometric jumpsuits, fresh haircuts, and colorful ceramic earrings Welcome to Best Dressed, an Eater series where restaurant diners show and tell what they're wearing out to dinner, from the small details to the splashy pieces — and how they approached getting dressed for each spot's specific scene. After two years of inside time, how do we dress to go out these days?...
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It's Official: The Choco Taco Is Over
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The ice cream truck just got a little bit worse In a devastating blow to ice cream trucks everywhere, the frozen desserts company Klondike confirmed that it has killed the Choco Taco, the chocolate-and-nut-coated treat that this very website once called "the most beloved and innovative of all the American ice cream 'novelties.'" (Sorry, SpongeBob popsicle.)
Speculation about the Choco Taco's discontinuation began on social media this ...
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