“Turf wars. Food and fire hazards. $15 ice-cream cones. How an organized network of unlicensed food trucks took over America’s Front Lawn.”
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I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America
“Thirteen thousand miles. Infinite contenders. One beautiful loaf.”
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The Practicalities and Pleasures of Homemade Train Food
“Long-haul Amtrak rides are full of people who value a slower pace to life. Of course they eat the same way.”
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The Unbearable Loudness of Chewing
“Why do some people find certain sounds intolerable? And why has it taken so long for scientists to get even a preliminary answer?”
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Smells Like Protein Spirit
“The chase for the golden 200 grams of protein per day, and the pop-up notification confirming such maxxing, has many of us thinking differently about what, and how, we eat. But is this actually healthy?”
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Fuel, Medicine, Pleasure
What could it mean to give yourself the food you need to keep going? No punishing, no guilt, no withholding. Just nourishment.
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Why You Can’t Get a Restaurant Reservation
“How bots, mercenaries, and table scalpers have turned the restaurant reservation system inside out.”
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Welcome to Invasivorism, the Boldest Solution to Ethical Eating Yet
“Turning invasive species into gourmet meals could blunt environmental and economic costs across the US. But can Americans stomach them? Chefs and biologists are taking a gamble.”
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‘We Are All Suffering in Silence’ — Inside the US Military’s Pervasive Culture of Eating Disorders
U.S. military service members develop harmful and unhealthy habits to maintain “body composition standards” that are outdated.