The most amazing chef you’ve never heard of is Jeong Kwan — a 59-year-old Zen Buddhist nun who cooks in a remote temple south of Seoul, South Korea.
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So Many Food Writers Under the House-Made Polenta Sun
At The Ringer, Bryan Curtis examines how food writers became the rock critics of our time.
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The Story of Heady Topper, America’s Most Loved Craft Beer
How a difficult to obtain American double IPA brewed in a small town in Vermont developed a world-wide cult following, with beer fans traveling hundreds of miles just to get a taste.
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The Hunt for the Perfect Sugar
The quest for a zero-calorie sweetener is getting more urgent — and harder than ever. Will the science and economics of Big Food finally get us to the fake-sugar grail?
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Who Is Guy Fieri?
Who is Guy Fieri, really, and how does one get to Flavortown?
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Celebrating New York City’s Early Soul Food Celebrity Chef, Princess Pamela
At Food52, Mayukh Sen recounts the glory years of Manhattan’s best DIY soul food restaurant, Little Kitchen, and tries to understand the final years of its beloved proprietor, who left without a trace.
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Green Juice and the Grim Reaper
Michelle Allison pens an essay in The Atlantic our relationship to food and what really underlies our obsession with food choice and finding the “best” diet.
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You Are What You Eat, Or, Haruki Murakami on Food As a Reflection of the Self
At The Awl, Elaheh Nozari explores food in the work of Haruki Murakami: how food not only offers comfort and nutrition, but about how what we eat speaks to our emotional state and who we are as people.
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Eating Toward Immortality
For nutritionist and intuitive eating advocate Michelle Allison, diet culture is just another way of dealing with the fear of death.
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Fiction Confidential
Before he became the patron saint of every tattooed-chef-in-a-gentrifying-neighborhood, Anthony Bourdain wrote novels. What can they tell us about the man behind the bad-boy persona?