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Grist for the Celebrity Food Mill
Did Rocco DiSpirito sell his culinary soul for a paycheck and some Bertoli frozen pasta?
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
Swipe White
Jennifer Chong Schneider considers what it is to be Asian, maligned, and fetishized in dating — and questions her own desire when she dates someone of her own ethnicity for the first time.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
Swipe White
Jennifer Chong Schneider considers what it is to be Asian, maligned, and fetishized in dating — and questions her own desire when she dates someone of her own ethnicity for the first time.
Posted inArts & Culture, Food, Nonfiction, Quotes
It’s Hard to See Seafood As a Healthy Choice After Reading This
A fish biologist makes a strong case against eating fish.
Posted inNonfiction
An Ocean Away From the Sanctuary of Manhattan, Signs of Peaceful Coexistence
As a Jewish New Yorker, Candy Schulman is surprised to find a small town in Andalusia celebrating the coexistence of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish cultures, despite the area’s dark racist history.
Posted inDesign, Highlight, History, Quotes, Science & Nature
I Want to Say One Word to You. Just One Word.
“Plastics.”
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Food, Nonfiction, Story
Roast Duck Soup for the Chinese-American Daughter’s Soul
Food writer Su-Jit Lin contemplates the role of a favorite dish in her relationship with her immigrant chef father.
Posted inEditor's Pick
How Big Business Got Brazil Hooked on Junk Food
Companies like Nestlé and PepsiCo are aggressively marketing their processed food products in developing nations like Brazil and India. The result: a global epidemic of obesity-related illnesses, where instead of malnutrition and hunger, more people are now obese than underweight.
Posted inNonfiction
The Unreliable Reader
In Esmé Weijun Wang’s book of personal essays, “The Collected Schizophrenias,” it’s the reader, not the writer, who is an unreliable narrator.
