Sichuan peppercorns are famous for their citrusy, mouth-numbing heat — and for being one of the hardest-to-find spices in the U.S.
2018
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Why Are Our Most Important Teachers Paid the Least?
Many preschool teachers earn around just $10 an hour in programs that are chronically understaffed and underfunded. And that’s just the beginning of the problems they face.
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A Speech and a Sermon
In her speech, Oprah reached out to “every man who chooses to listen.” Fifty years earlier, Martin Luther King, Jr. asked fearful men to speak up.
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I Made the Pizza Cinnamon Rolls from Mario Batali’s Sexual Misconduct Apology Letter
“Batali does not specify how tightly to roll the dough. I do so too tightly because fuck everything.”
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The Encyclopedia of the Missing
She keeps watch over one of the largest databases of missing persons in the country. For Meaghan Good, the disappeared are still out here, you just have to know where to look.
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A Tech Pioneer’s Final, Unexpected Act
When virtuoso violinist and tech worker Eric Sun got diagnosed with brain cancer, he turned his attention from making money for Facebook to making music for himself.
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I Started the Media Men List. My name is Moira Donegan.
“The experience of making the spreadsheet has shown me that it is still explosive, radical, and productively dangerous for women to say what we mean. But this doesn’t mean that I’ve lowered my hopes.”
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A Life Worth Ending
In this reported personal essay, Michael Wolff writes about watching his mother “dwindle” painfully between life and death — not well enough to live on her own in her final years, without tremendous intervention from her family and doctors, but not sick enough to just quickly die. He makes a convincing case against the medical establishment’s […]
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My Father’s Body, at Rest and in Motion
A reported, scientific essay in which physician and author Siddhartha Mukherjee considers the body’s proclivity for homeostasis, which kept his elderly father’s failing body alive for longer than seemed to make sense, after he had begun failing, and falling.
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It’s Hard to See Seafood As a Healthy Choice After Reading This
A fish biologist makes a strong case against eating fish.