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.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Sasha Issenberg, Libby Copeland, Jamilah King, Berry Grass, and Dayna Evans.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Food, Highlight, Quotes
Bread, Disrupted
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.
Posted inEditor's Pick
American Pie
On a decade-old family ritual, in which a Chinese woman and her visiting Chinese-American granddaughter make a pilgrimage to Pizza Hut to share a Hawaiian pizza.
Posted inBusiness, Food, Highlight, Quotes
The Unbearable Blandness of Water
Water companies go to impressive lengths to distinguish their tasteless product from their competitors’ tasteless product.
Posted inFood, Nonfiction, Quotes
Giving Tex-Mex Its Due
Why does Tex-Mex get such a bad rap when it’s a legitimate culinary tradition predating Texas statehood?
Posted inBusiness, Food, Nonfiction, Quotes
Are We Getting Ripped with Protein or Ripped Off?
The rise of the protein drink industry.
Posted inArts & Culture, Food, Nonfiction, Quotes
Living That Early Bird Life, But Differently
Why is the iconic early bird special disappearing in Florida’s retirement communties?
Posted inFood, Nonfiction, Quotes
Fine for the Whole Family
Helen Rosner’s ode to Olive Garden, and why the chain can never improve a menu no one wants to change.
Posted inFood, Nonfiction, Quotes
‘Hotchickenfrication’: One Fowl Enterprise
The origin story of Prince’s Hot Chicken, and how imitators are polluting this spicy comfort food.