 The Secrets Behind the Perfect Eclairs of Lyon's Legendary Pastry Brothers
Brothers Guillaume and Romain Luyat demonstrate how their popular praline confection is made Brothers Guillaume and Romain Luyat take pride in the fact that their favorite treat, the eclair, is so popular in their home town of Lyon, where their shop Les Eclaireurs resides.
"Lyon is known for several different products, most notably pink praline," says Guillaume. "So it's logical that we would create the praline eclair." This flavor is one of the brothers...
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Americans Love Free Stuff, But Will They Get Vaccinated for It?
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Across the country, the promise of beer, fries, and other freebies are being used to convinced people to get the COVID-19 vaccine Three months ago, I was waking up an hour early every morning to try to find my 66-year-old dad an appointment for the COVID vaccine. I'd open tabs for appointments at city-run sites, state-run sites, and local pharmacies, and refresh refresh refresh, sometimes watching an appointment pop up only for it to disappea...
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The 21 Essential Tulum Restaurants
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From glitzy jungle restaurants by big Mexico City chefs to hangover busters at a local spot in the downtown mercado, here's where to eat in the buzzy beachside town Paradise comes with a huge price tag. Back in the early '90s, Tulum was a sleepy pueblo on Mexico's Riviera Maya, a day trip from a hotel in Playa del Carmen or Cancún to see the ruins and walk around downtown. But by the ...
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A Shrimp Creole Recipe That's Fed Generations on a Coastal Georgia Farm
Siobhan Egan
Matthew Raiford's new cookbook 'Bress 'n' Nyam' intersperses family history with the Gullah Geechee recipes he grew up with Matthew Raiford, a chef and farmer, always wanted to write a cookbook, specifically a cookbook about the South. The opportunity presented itself after he gave a TEDx talk in 2018. As Raiford sat offstage following the talk, titled "Legacy in the Soil," writer Amy Condon approached him. "Amy walks out and...
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Biden's 'Suitable Jobs' Remark Is Anti-Worker Political Pandering
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The insistence that unemployed people accept "suitable" job offers is too vague and ignores why people are leaving their industries in the first place Following weeks of howling from business owners and Republican politicians across the country about how stimulus checks, along with unemployment benefits, were encouraging people to stay out of work, President Joe Biden has decided to weigh in, giving undeserved legitimacy to the d...
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Is Dry-Aged Pork the Future of Steakhouses?
Butchers Ben Turley and Brent Young believe this dry-aged pork porterhouse should be on the menu "Pork is generally undervalued," says Brooklyn-based butcher Brent Young. "It deserves to be on the menu at a steakhouse right next to that New York Strip or your Ribeye." Ben Turley, his partner at the Meat Hook butcher shop, is in full agreement. With their high opinion of pork, they decide to embark on a dry-aged pork experiment that they believe will result...
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A Tortellini en Brodo Recipe That Packs an Umami Punch
New York chef Tyler Heckman uses a dried shiitake dashi in place of brodo in his recipe Like a remake of a classic movie or TV show, chefs like to put their own spins on beloved dishes. That impulse can translate into babka that's more reminiscent of pizza than rugelach, duck breast that's speckled with pastrami spices instead of beef, and butter mochi that might just remind you of a birthday cake.
It also means that something as unwavering...
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Your Least Favorite Gross Viral Food Videos Are All Connected to This Guy
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Whether it's Spaghetti-Os pie or table-top nachos, everything can be traced back to (literal) magician Rick Lax Sometimes a meteorite will reach a velocity fast enough to traverse the vacuum of space, piercing Earth's atmosphere and giving us a small glimpse of the unfathomably large and chaotic universe just beyond our own world. Similarly but in a virtual world, viral videos of white women making extremely questionable food con...
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My Go-To 'First Day Back From Vacation' Meal
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Pollo a la brasa eases me back into my routine This post originally appeared in the May 10, 2021 edition of The Move, a place for Eater's editors to reveal their recommendations and pro dining tips — sometimes thoughtful, sometimes weird, but always someone's go-to move. Subscribe now.
For some reason, figuring out what my first dinner should be after arriving home from out of town has always bee...
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It Took a Pandemic to Make TV Dinners Truly Delicious
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Why chefs are turning takeout meals into delightfully old-school TV dinners The panko-breaded pork cutlet, served old-school-style with a mushroom and onion gravy, corn, and mashed potatoes, is "one of our favorite things," says chef Kate Williams, owner of Karl's in Detroit's Siren Hotel. "Maybe it was one of our family meal meals or something once." Williams now serves t...
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Guaranteed Basic Income Could Be a Game-Changer for Restaurant Workers
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More cities nationwide are considering guaranteed income for low-wage earners, which could empower food and farm industry employees This story was originally published on Civil Eats.
Sukhi Samra grew up with a mother who worked up to 80 hours per week to support three children and a husband with a disability. None of her three jobs paid her well enough to make ends meet in Fresno, California, in the late 2000s. So
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 Pink Lemonade Pound Cake
Perfect for spring holidays, baby showers, bridal showers, and girls birthday parties - this cake really is "pretty in pink".
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Hunger Rates Drop as People Spend Stimulus Money on Groceries
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Give a man a fish...and he and his family might get to eat a nutritious meal finally We are here to report some breaking news that may come as a shock: Giving people money for food means they can buy food and thus not go hungry. Please take all the time you need to process this revelation.
According to Census data, initiatives to increase access to SNAP benefits and the stimulus payments have shrunk adult hunger rates from 11 percent in March to arou
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This Crumb Cake Recipe Is a Sweet, Salty Ode to the PB&J Sandwich
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Peanut butter and peanut butter powder help transform a lunchtime classic into a homey but indulgent cake This is the first official installment of For Goodness Cake, a monthly cake column from pastry chef Joy Cho. Each month we'll give you a recipe for cake that is not only relatively easy to make but also rewarding and comforting. Because cake, we firmly believe, isn't just for special occasions — it's for celebrating the sweetness t...
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How Muslims Are Rethinking the Future of Ramadan
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Some community organizers are hoping the changes driven by the pandemic will improve Ramadan for years to come When I broke my fasts at mosques during pre-pandemic Ramadans, I basked in the unspoken agreement among the strangers in the room that filling everyone's stomach was an urgent and shared respo...
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It's the Summer for Slushy Beers
"Slushy" refers to a fruited sour, which is essentially what it sounds like: a sour beer, in this case, Berliner-Weisse, that's infused with a ton of fruit puree. The result is a beer that comes out thick, with a slushy-like consistency and seriously fruity flavor profile.
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Starbucks Stands by Its Most Annoying Customers and Their Wild Custom Drinks
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Your customized order with eight additional ingredients will always be safe at the 'bucks I like to think that when Jurassic Park's Dr. Ian Malcolm wondered aloud about scientists being so preoccupied with what they "could" do that they never stopped to think what they "should" do, he was really talking about over-the-top Starbucks orders. Because nobody could have come up with some of these more elaborate of these drinks ...
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Chef Nyesha Arrington's Recipe for a Homemade Version of Stouffer's Salisbury Steak TV Dinner
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The chef recreates the nostalgic dish, including a side of bright orange macaroni and cheese What's more nostalgic than peeling open a piping hot TV dinner straight from the microwave? Whether you were a latchkey kid looking for an easy meal, or just someone who enjoyed getting a steamy whiff of classic neon orange macaroni and cheese from time to time, the comforting TV dinner was always there, standing by in the freezer for when you ne...
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How to Navigate a Pandemic-Era Disney World Right Now
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What to do, bring, wear, and of course eat for a delicious trip to the most sanitized place on earth The time has come for you to finally contemplate a trip to the Mouse House, and frankly, there's never been a better time to plan. Disney World has always provided a grand escape from reality, with its cartoon character-shaped ice cream bars, towering fake mountains, and restaurants with '50s kitchenettes where waiters berate yo...
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Have Delivery Apps Changed What a Restaurant Is?
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The pandemic has forced restaurants to accommodate delivery in order to stay relevant. And there's no going back now. This is Eater Voices, where chefs, restaurateurs, writers, and industry insiders share their perspectives about the food world, tackling a range of topics through the lens of personal experience.
A couple of years ago, Tacolicious, the San Francisco restaurant I'm a partner in, switched from using corn tortil...
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How Chef Eric Sze Is Changing the Game for Taiwanese Food in NYC
The chef and Eater New Guard member throws the concept of "authenticity" out the window in favor of serving up mouthwatering spins on his favorite dishes "'Authenticity' means jack shit to me," says Eric Sze, a member of the 2021 Eater New Guard. "What's authentic to me doesn't mean it's authentic to you, even if you grew up in Taiwan." Sze uses this philosophy to help guide his delicious, Taiwanese-inspired creations at his restaurant 886 i...
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Old Fashioned Jelly Doughnuts
A great jelly doughnut is hard to beat. Biting through the powdered sugar, then the soft dough, then the sweet fruit filling? It's an experience worth making the old-fashioned way.
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The Lie of 'No One Wants to Work'
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Amid reports of a restaurant industry "labor shortage," employees say all they really want are wages that makes the risk worth it After eight years in the restaurant industry, EstefanÃa decided she'd had enough. Last summer, she quit her job at a New American restaurant in Chicago where she had worked as a manager and sommelier since 2017. EstefanÃa, who asked to be referred to by her first name because she is ...
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Expert Butchers Test Out 10 Different Chicken Wing Recipes
The Meat Hook butchers Ben Turley and Brent Young make everything from classic Buffalo-style to wings fried in duck fat and Champagne Brooklyn-based butchers Ben Turley and Brent Young spend a lot of time around their shop The Meat Hook's industrial ovens, giant backyard smoker, and variously sized grills. But today they're going to prove you don't need professional-level (and size) machines to make delicious chicken wings. On this episode of Pr...
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Greek Shrimp
A slow cooker version of the classic Greek dish, shrimp saganaki. Serve it with bread for sopping up the delicious sauce.
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Why Be Mad at Your Instacart Shopper When You Could Be Mad at Instacart?
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Blame the company offering you cheap rates by underpaying its workers, not the underpaid workers *pinches bridge of nose* Look, everyone is still getting used to some new normals, one of which is the proliferation of grocery delivery services like Instacart. On the surface it seems great — someone else brings your groceries to you! But, as with any service that relies on the folly of huma...
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For Pop-Up Owners, a Crossroads as Restaurants Return
As the restaurant industry inches toward normalcy, many of those who launched pandemic-era pop-ups are wondering what's next Former Gramercy Tavern pastry cook Lauren Tran never expected her assortments of ube and coconut mousse chiffon cakes, longan macarons, and banh bò nướng — a pandan-flavored tapioca and rice flour pastry — to appeal beyond her social circle. But when the recent pastry school graduate's banh boxes, a mix of Vietnamese desserts and...
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How I Ate My Way Through 14 Days in a Korean Quarantine Facility
Two weeks in a Korean quarantine facility took my sense of time, space, and rational thought — but never my appetite We've all experienced some form of isolation over the past year due to the COVID-19 pandemic — either sanctioned by the government or by personal choice. My most potent experience of solitude was a mix of both: 14 days quarantined in South Korea, per the country's strict travel policies, after traveling from New York to my hometown in Dece...
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The 23 Essential Maui Restaurants
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Where to eat and drink in one of the most beautiful places on earth Everything you've heard about Maui's radical beauty is true: the undulation of the mountains and the lowlands, the cream-toned beaches that yield seamlessly to sea and sky, the volcanic rocks slicing through the million shades of green. Maui is larger than O'ahu, though the forested reserves bookending its eastern and western points m...
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Goldfish Crackers Targets Adults With Frank's RedHot Flavor Because We Gotta Burn to Feel
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What's the next adult-aimed flavor going to be? Roasted brussels sprouts? Beef tartare? Existential ennui? Like the Riverdales and Winx Clubs of the world, Goldfish crackers are getting an edgier, more adult reboot — starting with a new spicy flavor, made in collaboration with Frank's RedHot sauce. Like the hot sauce, the crackers will carry notes of vinegar and cayenne pepper.
Hot and spicy is the most-requested flavor for Gol...
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Bring a Small Bonfire to Your Countertop With a Bulgarian Vegetable Roaster
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The Bulgarian chushkopek (or "pepper roaster") blackens vegetables for a smoky flavor no oven can achieve One of my first introductions to Bulgarian cooking was lyutenitsa, the country's ubiquitous roasted red pepper and tomato spread, which is served at all times of day with everything from toast to rice to meat. I was 19 and falling in love with a lot of things at once: the person who would become my husband,...
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How Kim Hyun-Kyu Has Been Making Colorful Noodles for 40 Years
The handmade noodles get their vibrant colors from fresh seasonal produce "It's not like there was anyone to teach us or anywhere we could ask," says Grand Noodle owner Kim Hyun-Kyu. "We just try. We know because we tried everything. Our mouths are our labs."
Hyun-Kyu has been making long, colorful, vegetable-packed noodles, for over 40 years, but his operation wasn't always as popular as it is today. When he first started out, he used machines to p...
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Vaccinated Diners Can Go Maskless When Seated Outside, Says CDC
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Unvaccinated people should still wear masks, as should everyone if eating indoors The Centers for Disease Control updated its guidance on socializing and safely engaging in other activities during the pandemic, including new information on best practices at restaurants. Now, if you've been fully vaccinated, the CDC has deemed it safe for you to "dine at an outdoor restaurant with friends from multiple households" without wearing a mask.
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We Should All Be Drinking More Lebanese Wine
How and why we talk about it, though, needs to change The modern nation of Lebanon might be only 100 years old, but the wine trade here has been around for more than 5,000 years, thanks to a longitudinal coastline that runs the entire length of the country. Ancient Phoenicians shared amphorae with bustling port cities across the Mediterranean and shipped wine and other goods to the rest of the stops on their route, from Alexandria, Egypt, to Cadiz, Spain.
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Hostility, Harassment, and Low Wages Are Keeping Many Restaurant Workers Home
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Saru Jayamaran says workers are "being asked to do so much more for so much less" As restaurants around the country rush to staff up to meet the increased demand from customers, owners are finding it increasingly difficult to fill all their open roles. One factor is simply the onslaught of new positions. But workers' rights advocate Saru Jayamaran says many workers are exiting an industry that is asking them to do so much more for so muc...
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Don't Buy a Separate Bottle of Wine for Cooking
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Even when it's an ingredient, wine is first and foremost something to drink This post originally appeared in the April 26, 2021 edition of The Move, a place for Eater's editors to reveal their recommendations and pro dining tips — sometimes thoughtful, sometimes weird, but always someone's go-to move. Subscribe now.
In the year I spent working at a wine shop in New York, there was probably one person per week who would come in and as...
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Epicurious Stopped Publishing Beef Recipes to 'Encourage Sustainable Cooking'
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"Every time you abstain from beef at the grocery store or a restaurant, you send a signal," says the popular recipe site, which actually phased out beef last year Fresh off the heels of President Joe Biden spooking conservatives into thinking he's going to force everyone to give up hamburgers (he's not, that was just a leap taken by the Daily Mail), recipe website Epicurious announced its own restrictions around beef. The website said i...
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Restaurant Workers Are Combing Through Job Listings — But They're Not Applying
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Culinary Agents CEO Alice Cheng on the restaurant worker shortage and how workers will return to the industry 'on their timeframe' As restaurants across the country expand capacity, reopen for indoor dining, and prepare for a new season of outdoor service, owners are struggling to find staff to meet their needs. Many workers still don't feel safe returning to work during a pandemic. Others don't w...
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Food-Related Gift Ideas for the Moms in Your Life
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From the Editor: Everything you missed in food news last week This post originally appeared on April 24, 2020 in Amanda Kludt's newsletter "From the Editor," a roundup of the most vital news and stories in the food world each week. Read the archives and subscribe now.
Last week the New York Times podcast The Daily published an episode all about the struggles of pandemic parenting, including recordings from the parenting sectionâ...
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Basic Pizza Dough
This basic recipe for pizza crusts can be used with your favorite pizza toppings. It can be made in advance and refrigerated for up to two days.
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How America's Only Farmed Glass Eels Are Raised in MaineÂ
American Unagi founder Sara Rademaker developed the first eel growing facility in the U.S in order to sell the pricey fish locally to chefs and restaurants On this episode of Dan Does, host Daniel Geneen visits American Unagi, the country's only glass eel farm. Founder Sara Rademaker created her operation when she learned there was not a single eel growing facility within the U.S. Before American Unagi, glass eels eaten in America were caught locally as babies...
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Fancy-Schmancy Levain Cookies Are Headed to Your Local Whole Foods' Freezer Aisle
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The cookies that inspired lines around the block are now easier to get, but you have to heat them yourself We can largely thank Levain for ushering in the trend of humongous, warm cookies that are chewy on the inside, but crispy on the out. The popular bakery on Manhattan's Upper West Side has inspired numerous other bakeries and copycats, but have now made it so that you can get your hands on an original Levain cookie, no matter where you a...
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Chef Nyesha Arrington's Recipe for Puffy Pommes Soufflées
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The fried potato spheres make for the perfect airy bite Is one type of French fry ever enough? The answer is a resounding no. On this episode of Plateworthy, chef Nyesha Arrington demonstrates her methods for making 10 different styles. But here, we're focusing on the most complicated and playful version of the crispy potatoes: the pommes soufflees. "This is a technique that really takes some time and a lot of care," says Arringt...
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Frozen Sweet Potato Summer Is Upon Us
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TikTok and Instagram star George Lee shares his method for the easiest — and tastiest — hot-weather treat Summer in Taiwan made George Lee's skin itch: The humidity trapped the sweat on his body, the air thick and heavy. On these "dreadful" days, Lee dipped into a convenience store, making a beeline for the freezer, its door soaked with condensation. He'd pluck one of the perforated plastic bags and re-emerge into the sweltering hea...
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New Netflix Show Explores the Vital Influence of Black Culture on America's Kitchen
Food historian Dr. Jessica B. Harris and journalist Stephen Satterfield collaborate on the new Netflix show High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America. | Netflix
'High on the Hog,' debuting May 26, is a celebration of African foodways and "Black America's resilience" When it comes to African foodways, and the vast diaspora from which those foods come, there are few people with as much expertise as food historian Dr. Jessica...
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When It Comes to Reopening, Restaurant Owners and Diners Are 'Out of Practice'
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Restaurant owners get candid about the various challenges they face in getting back to "normal" The journey that restaurant owners and workers have endured over the last 14 months has been well documented — from having to make a case for outdoor dining and dealing with impossibly high diner expectations to handling mask enforcement when their spaces began to reopen. Such stories from restaurant owners ...
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From the Strategist: The Best Boba for Making Bubble Tea at Home, According to a Bubble Tea Fanatic
The tapioca pearls and more you'll need to make your own boba, from the Strategist My earliest memory of bubble tea is trying it for the first time on a family trip to Shanghai; I was seven or eight, and I was so obsessed with my new discovery that I couldn't stop prattling on and on, bending my mom's ear about how the Oriental Pearl Tower resembled the similarly shaped orbs in my drink. During high school in suburban Maryland, my friends and I would take adv...
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Amazon Offers Whole Foods Customers an Easier Way to Pay, Just Hand Over Your Biometric Data
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Amazon One, which lets you pay with your palm print, is about to get tested at a Whole Foods in Seattle Amazon is introducing a handy (sorry) new way to pay at some Whole Foods stores in Seattle. Amazon One allows customers to associate a credit card with their palm print, so all that's required is swiping your hand so Amazon can verify your biometric data. And we're sure Amazon, a historically good and chill company, isn't planning on do...
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In 'Crying in H Mart,' Michelle Zauner Cooks Through Grief
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In the new memoir from the musician behind Japanese Breakfast, Korean food provides a link to family and identity following her mother's death H Mart, the popular Korean grocery store chain, is more than the setting for Crying in H Mart's illustrative first chapter (and a 2018 essay of the same name) — it's the catalyst for the entire arc of Michelle Zauner's new memoir. "Essentially, the whole book is fig...
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The Good and the Bad of Singapore's New Hawkerpreneurs
Can Singapore's already fragile hawker centers withstand third-wave coffee and gourmet burger stalls? Faye Sai and her siblings grew up working in the small coffee shop, or kopitiam, of their father, just as he had worked in his own father's kopitiam decades before. Situated in one of Singapore's famed hawker centers, the stall was hot and tiny, even for kids. Sai remembers the hard days, the long hours, and the endless complaining. Ultimately, though, non...
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Demi Lovato's Overblown Feud With a Frozen Yogurt Shop, Explained
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Diet culture is the real enemy Is a sugar-free cookie inherently triggering? Is sugar-full food inherently indulgent? These are the questions raised by the drama unfolding between pop star Demi Lovato and LA frozen yogurt shop the Bigg Chill. The answer to both questions is no, but let's break it down more anyway!
On Monday, Lovato — who has publicly spoken of her experiences with substance abuse, disordere...
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