Tag: Eater

This week, we’re sharing stories from Robert Sanchez, Nicholas Hune-Brown, Emily Van Duyne, David Ferris, and Jaya Saxena.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Jennifer Senior, Aaron Hutchins, Molly Ball, Diana Hubbell, and Vauhini Vara.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Clint Smith, Hanif Abdurraqib, Lise Olsen, Jaya Saxena, and Emma Carmichael.

“Plant-based eating has a long, radical history in Black American culture, preserved by institutions and individuals who have understood the power of food and nutrition in the fight against oppression,” writes Amirah Mercer in “A Homecoming.” The piece, published at Eater, explores Mercer’s path to veganism and the plant-based diets of the Black diaspora. While […]

This week, we’re sharing stories from Elizabeth Weil, Amirah Mercer, Jason Motlagh, Esmé E. Deprez, and Michael Paulson.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Teju Cole, Barton Gellman, Dexter Filkins, Rebecca May Johnson, and Navneet Alang.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Franklin Foer, Andy Greenberg, Jerry Saltz, Sara Selevitch, and Kyle Buchanan.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Pamela Colloff, Jordan Smith, James Ross Gardner, Michelle Dowd, and Jaya Saxena.

Longreads editors discuss stories in The New York Times Magazine, Eater, and Hakai Magazine.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Gabriel Thompson, Tim Murphy, Deborah Netburn, Tove Danovich, and Sirin Kale.

Your favorite Mexican shrimp dish isn’t about the shrimp at all: “People think the star of the dish is the shrimp, but really it’s the chile.”

One Tucsonan writes a love letter to the 24-hour Mexican food joint that shaped his youth.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Elizabeth Weil, Leah McSweeney and Jacob Siegel, Paul Kiel and Jesse Eisinger, Sean Patrick Cooper, and Priya Krishna.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Sasha Issenberg, Libby Copeland, Jamilah King, Berry Grass, and Dayna Evans.

Bread: it was so terrible, right? Thank goodness the tech industry finally iterated on it so we can make a decent piece of toast after 6,000 years.

Water companies go to impressive lengths to distinguish their tasteless product from their competitors’ tasteless product.

Why does Tex-Mex get such a bad rap when it’s a legitimate culinary tradition predating Texas statehood?

The rise of the protein drink industry.

Why is the iconic early bird special disappearing in Florida’s retirement communties?

Helen Rosner’s ode to Olive Garden, and why the chain can never improve a menu no one wants to change.

The origin story of Prince’s Hot Chicken, and how imitators are polluting this spicy comfort food.

“Turkey, in all of its modernist efforts, is just covering up the smell of its own shit.”

If craft food culture looks overwhelmingly white, it’s because black influences have been routinely scrubbed from its history.

Judith Jones, the legendary Knopf editor, has died at the age of 93.

Eight stories and two bonus reads for Pride month.

Meet the family turning Las Vegas casino food waste into future meals.

From the chocolate babka to the big salad, Eater serves up 25 favorite food moments from Seinfeld.

Eight must-read essays on how we cook and how we eat.

At Eater, journalist Emily Yoshida hits some of Tokyo’s absurd, popular tourist attractions trying to understand specifically what themed-destinations offer and why they’re so popular.

The best stories of the week, as chosen by the editors of Longreads.