The Craft of Cooking

An Interview with “America’s Test Kitchen” founder Christopher Kimball on how cooking is like woodworking, the business model behind “Cooks Illustrated,” and the awesome powers of baking soda and gelatin.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jun 23, 2015
Length: 17 minutes (4,479 words)

Can Politico Make Brussels Sexy?

Politico has transformed Washington D.C. journalism in the eight years since the site’s inception. Now they’ve landed in Europe.

Source: The Guardian
Published: Jun 18, 2015
Length: 26 minutes (6,590 words)

Clementa Pinckney’s Last Day

Reporter Jason Horowitz helped reconstruct the events leading up to and including the shooting at the historic AME Emanuel church in Charleston, South Carolina for Sunday’s New York Times. Because the New York Times‘s coverage focused on the totality of the event, much of what Horowitz learned about Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney—the church’s pastor and a State Senator in Columbia—was not able to make to it into the piece, so Horowitz decided to publish an extended account of Rev. Pinckney’s last day in Matter.

Source: Matter
Published: Jun 21, 2015
Length: 7 minutes (1,800 words)

The Young T.S. Eliot

How T.S. Eliot’s time at Harvard shaped his work, and what he was like as a young poet.

Published: Jul 1, 2015
Length: 11 minutes (2,878 words)

The Burger That Could Fix Fast Food

Street food savant Roy Choi isn’t satisfied with having reinvented the taco truck. He wants to use everything he’s learned to create a new fast-food chain that’s healthy, good for the planet, and just as guilty-pleasure delicious as, say, Taco Bell’s Crunchwrap Supreme. But can it be done?

Source: Yahoo News
Published: Jun 15, 2015
Length: 19 minutes (4,800 words)

All the Language in the World Won’t Make a Bookshelf Exist

After leaving a drag-and-click job at a newspaper to learn carpentry, Nina MacLaughlin takes on her first big solo project: building bookshelves for her father.

Published: Jun 21, 2015
Length: 17 minutes (4,383 words)

‘We Have to Do Better’: A Reading List on the Charleston Church Massacre

“We have to demand accountability from one another and stand up for people of color—in the streets, in our Facebook feeds, in our offices and homes.”

Source: Longreads
Published: Jun 19, 2015

The Hunt for the Financial Industry’s Most-Wanted Hacker

The story of a malware known as ZeuS, and the hunt for its rogue creator.

Published: Jun 18, 2015
Length: 12 minutes (3,000 words)

The Mayor vs. the Mogul

Deeply reported look at the power struggle inside Michael Bloomberg’s media business as he returns to lead it.

Source: Politico
Published: Jun 19, 2015
Length: 39 minutes (9,961 words)

The Lesbian Bride’s Handbook

Ariel Levy on her discomfort with the idea a “real” wedding, and the experience of planning her own.

Author: Ariel Levy
Published: Oct 24, 2007
Length: 16 minutes (4,150 words)