Leaked Audio: Trump Cares About Food Safety But Only If the Food Is Foreign
President Donald Trump intends to intensify enforcement of food safety regulations as a cudgel in international trade negotiations, according to leaked recordings of a what appears to be a phone...
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The Absolute Best Coffee in NYC
The winning shop only does one thing — and it does it extremely well. Photo: Melissa Hom It’s time to talk coffee. Once a city of watery industrial brews and diner coffee, New York is saturated with...
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Ask Well: Does Skipping Breakfast Cause Weight Gain? – The New York Times
Continental breakfast is served at Hey Jupiter, a cafe in Adelaide, Australia.Credit David Maurice Smith for The New York Times Q Does skipping breakfast cause weight gain? When I was younger, my...
View ArticlePlay Along, Whole Foods – Bloomberg Gadfly
What’s tasty for Whole Foods Market Inc.’s investors may not be the healthiest choice for the future of the company. Its 10 percent stock jump Monday showed faith in the pledge by activist investor...
View ArticleHow a Startup that Makes $400 Juicers Played Itself in the Absolute Worst Way...
The first question in the FAQ section of Juicero’s website is “How do I make juice?” The answer is a five-step process, starting with “Take a pack from the Juicero carton in your refrigerator.” The...
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The Long Death of Product 19, the Most Beloved Cereal You’ve Never Heard Of –...
Delicious industrial goodness. Nesster/Cropped/CC BY 2.0 When you hear the name “Product 19,” you’ll either flash on an experimental invention from some corporate R&D department, or, if you’re...
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Sorry, but Haribo gummies are reportedly made with slave labor
Photo: Patrik Stollarz/Getty Images The days when we were concerned—or at least, I was, being an earnest teenager in a Clash T-shirt—about Starbucks putting local coffee shops out of business seem so...
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Silicon Valley Is Sneaking Models Into This Year’s Holiday Parties – Bloomberg
Technology Silicon Valley Is Sneaking Models Into This Year’s Holiday Parties “Ambiance and atmosphere models” contractually obligated to pretend they’re party guests are in record demand from local...
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Starbucks Has Gone Insane
Starbuck’s Christmas Tree Frappuccino® Blended Crème, image via Starbucks. There is a time and a place for everything in this world, except for three things: 1) Santacon, 2) the GOP, and 3)...
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That ‘Chocolate Extinction’ Story Is Total Nonsense
Image: Maxpixel I was hoping to start 2018 off with a positive blog, like some of my colleagues, but then I glanced at my feeds and saw ‘chocolate extinction’ all over them. Apparently, news broke...
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I Made the Pizza Cinnamon Rolls from Mario Batali’s Sexual Misconduct Apology...
Last night, I made cinnamon rolls. I’m not a huge fan of cinnamon rolls, per se, but this recipe was included in Mario Batali’s sexual misconduct apology letter, and so I feel compelled to make them....
View ArticleClimate Change Is Threatening Tabasco’s Avery Island Headquarters
In just the past few months, the vagaries of climate change have affected everything from the California avocado crop to South African wine production. Now, sad news from the Louisiana bayou suggests...
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Pepsi Co (PEP) CEO Indra Nooyi says the company is developing “snacks for...
Women, you know how it is. You want a snack, and those potato chips in the vending machine look so good, but you’re worried. What if the salt gets all over your fingers? What if the crunch is really...
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I used every pumpkin spice product I could find for a week. Now my armpits...
Pumpkin spice is not a flavor, it’s a lifestyle. Its mantra is the crackle of fallen leaves and bonfires. “Sweater weather” is its holy creed. The pumpkin spice life, like its coffee, is sweet, and you...
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Monsanto’s Cruel, and Dangerous, Monopolization on American Farming | Vanity...
Gary Rinehart clearly remembers the summer day in 2002 when the stranger walked in and issued his threat. Rinehart was behind the counter of the Square Deal, his “old-time country store,” as he calls...
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Tabasco Sauce Is in a Battle For Its Very Survival
Osborn points to the thousands of wooden casks of aging Tabasco mash Photo: Michael Isaac Stein Row after row of blackened wood barrels are piled 30 feet high in a dim warehouse on Avery Island in...
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What We Talk About When We Talk About “Bitch Beer”| PUNCH
Craft beer’s bro-code is still enforcing outdated typecasts on what we define as good beer, bad beer and who drinks which. end .article-header Bethany Baker doesn’t remember the exact beer she had in...
View ArticleTwenty-Four-Karat Chicken Wings and the Allure of Eating Gold | The New Yorker
Last week, seemingly every time I opened my laptop or unlocked my phone, I was presented with the same video, in which a chicken drumette is fried amber-dark, then dunked and swirled in an iridescent,...
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CDC Honey Smacks warning: ‘Do not eat this cereal’– The Washington Post
The Kellogg Company has recalled its Honey Smacks cereal from the shelves after a salmonella outbreak infected 100 people in 33 states, according to the CDC. (Gene J. Puskar/AP) A salmonella outbreak...
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Eating while immigrant: The bitter taste of assimilation and the joy of...
This story was presented by the author at Printers Row Lit Fest this June, during a session of Between Bites, the Chicago-based storytelling group. Ashley T. handed me a pink cloud wrapped in a...
View ArticleAlmond milk recall: FDA says there’s milk allergen in some Almond Breeze...
Some Vanilla Almond Breeze almond milk is being recalled “because the product may contain milk, an allergen not listed on the label,” the Food and Drug Administration said Thursday. The FDA said there...
View ArticleCrying in H Mart | The New Yorker
Ever since my mom died, I cry in H Mart. For those of you who don’t know, H Mart is a supermarket chain that specializes in Asian food. The “H” stands for han ah reum, a Korean phrase that roughly...
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Inside Paulie Gee’s Retro Slice Shop, Now Open In Greenpoint : Gothamist
gallery js Paulie Gee’s in Greenpoint makes some of the city’s best pizza, but excruciating table waits and a notorious no-takeout policy means that it can be frustratingly difficult to actually eat...
View ArticleWitches, bread and LSD: how a poisonous mold may have caused hallucinogenic...
HF: So where does demonic possession come into play? SL: So in the medieval era, particularly between about 1300 to about 1600, this disease [ergotism], which we now know as food poisoning, was...
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Meet the Hydro-Haters: The People Who Refuse to Drink Water, No Matter What –...
New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. hates water so much he’ll fight through painful cramps rather than hydrate. “When you get that stomach — it’s all slushy,” he told reporters. “I’m...
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CBD Coffee? This Maine Company Insists It Has the Trademark – Bloomberg
For a 25-year-old coffee brand in Maine, the cannabis compound CBD is more than just a trendy ingredient. It’s a trademark. Mary Allen Lindemann and Alan Spear opened Coffee By Design in 1994, selling...
View ArticleThis new California law is supposed to protect immigrant home cooks. It may...
How many dumplings equal a “meal”? I’ve personally pondered this question because the number of dumplings I want to eat rarely corresponds with the recommended serving size. But this question also...
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The People Who Eat the Same Lunch Every Day – The Atlantic
Vern Loomis, a retired structural draftsman in West Bloomfield, Michigan, had a standard office lunch: a peanut-butter sandwich, with various fruit, vegetable, and dessert accompaniments. He ate this,...
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One Nation Under Pizza Ranch
Illustration: Angelica Alzona (GMG) SOMEWHERE IN IOWA—Here is what happened, right before everything began to go to hell: It was June of 2015. The president was Barack Obama. I was a reporter for...
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The Revolution Will Be Cooked
Illustration: Benjamin Currie/GMG THE FUTURE OF LABORWhat’s next for work and workers Every morning, the Portland chapter of the Black Panther Party had a routine. Just before 6 a.m., a driver...
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