Dementia is a kind of erasure, a death before death, where the living discount the infirmed long before they’re gone.
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A Flower in the Debris: The Legacy of Benihana, Rocky Aoki’s All-American Empire
By diluting its Japanese character and turning food into theater, this millionaire chef introduced Japanese cuisine to American diners neither familiar with or open to it. He was both a culinary pioneer and a brilliant opportunist.
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Spies, Dossiers, and the Insane Lengths Restaurants Go to Track and Influence Food Critics
When a glowing review can catapult a restaurant into stardom and a bad one can spell its doom, owners increasingly resort to a mainstay of political campaigns: opposition research.
Posted inBusiness, Food, Nonfiction, Quotes
Are We Getting Ripped with Protein or Ripped Off?
The rise of the protein drink industry.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Feature, Food, Nonfiction
Forgetting the Madeleine
A pastry chef reflects on taste, memory, and literature’s most famous confection.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
The Backcountry Prescription Experiment
Mathina Calliope goes off her antidepressant and into the woods.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Who Do You Belong To?
When she dipped her heart into someone else’s relationship, Emily Lackey discovered how to define love on her own terms.
Posted inBooks, Fiction, Story
‘I’m a Big Fan of Writing To Find Out What You Don’t Know.’
Mark Haber discusses “Reinhardt’s Garden” and its protagonist’s quest for a true understanding of melancholy: “not a feeling but a mood, not a color but a shade, not depression but not happiness either…”
Posted inBusiness, Food, Nonfiction, Quotes
America’s Duded-Up Kitchens
Companies have re-coded their appliances to capitalize on men’s entry into the kitchen, and they’ve taken their stereotypes with them.
Posted inNonfiction
Woodstock: My Queer Love Story
Kate Walter went to Woodstock in 1969 with her boyfriend. She went back in 1994 with her girlfriend. She’s not going back again.
