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A Hot Dog Reheat for Memorial Day
I have written thousands of words about the joys of eating hot dogs, so when Memorial Day rolls around, this serious eater's thoughts immediately tur…
10 hours ago
The Big Bagel Taste Test
This week on the pod we are back with Part 2 of our deep dive into bageldom with bagel baker and celebrated chef Mark Strausman of Mark’s Off Madison…
1 week ago
Bagels Are Having A Moment
Like slice pizza and smash burgers bagels are having a moment. One concept Pop Up Bagels was just valued at $300 million in its most recent round of …
2 weeks ago
Channing Frye Reheat: Go Knicks!
Like many serious eaters I am a serious NBA fan. And although the playoffs this year have just gotten underway, they are already proving to be thrill…
3 weeks ago
Can Food Actually Be Medicine? Yes!
The idea that food is medicine has been around for centuries. On this week's Special Sauce The New York Times's Kim Severson and the Aspen Institute'…
4 weeks ago
Chicago and ICE: An Update
Last November ICE launched Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago, terrorizing both restaurant customers and workers in immigrant communities all over the…
1 month ago
A Tribute to Tom Valenti, The Best Chef You Never Heard Of
Tom Valenti, one of my favorite chefs of all time (who also happened to be a swell, generously spirited human being), died suddenly last week. Tom wa…
1 month, 1 week ago
Ella Quittner: Obsessed With The Best
As someone who has spent the greater part of a half-century searching for and obsessing about where to find the best of any kind of foodstuff, I was …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
AI: An Existential Threat to Recipe Developers
Smitten Kitchen's Deb Perelman explains why she and many other recipe developers and food writers regard AI as an existential threat on this week's e…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Noma and Redzepi: A Shocking Tale of Abuse
According The New York Times, Noma chef and co-owner René Redzepi physically and verbally abused more than thirty of his kitchen staff between 2010 a…
2 months ago