How Can Any National Food Award Celebrate a Terrible Food City?
My experience of Boston’s food in the context of recent award snubs.
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Gift Guide 4
Life-changing fruits, 13–14 spoon-tested mustards, the rowing machine that they don’t want you to know about, and much more.
Can We Stop Pretending That Ann Kim Is Cancelled?
A response to the Star Tribune’s recent plea to stop trying to cancel Ann Kim.
The Shameless Impropriety of Joshua Weissman
An investigation into the provenance of Weissman’s recipes led to many of his former employees who described exploitive behavior, patterns of abuse, and pervasive sexual misconduct.
How to Union Bust
A campaign of union busting by restaurateur Ann Kim and a campaign of bullying and intimidation by the Star Tribune’s leadership to remove the evidence.
Dave Portnoy
A repository of articles about the sexual violence accusations leveled against Portnoy, his history of violent misogyny and other bigotry, his attacks on critics, and more.
How to Carrot
It’s carrot.
Diet Prada’s Antisemitism Problem
Tony Liu and Lindsey Schuyler’s abject failure in reckoning with antisemitism.
The 2021 Gift Guide
Less is more.
How to Hoagie Roll
And they say that a hoagie can save us—I’m not gonna stand here and wait.
An Open Letter to Scott Wiener of Scott’s Pizza Tours
On enabling problematic figures in food
How to Pizza
A New York-style pizza recipe with extraneous information
How to Steak
It’s a steak recipe.
E Pluribus Falco
Anthony Falco, the controversial international pizza consultant, and his misrepresented relationship with Roberta’s.
The 2019 Holiday Gift Guide
Another one.
The Perpetually Problematic Matt Hyland
The doxing of a critic's Tinder profile, Emmy Squared investor controversy—why you should think twice before eating at Emily Pizza and Emmy Squared.
How to Burger
Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Mise en Place.
Doom and Gloom at In Bloom
A review of the hearth-centric restaurant In Bloom at the Keg & Case Market in Saint Paul, to the tune of “My Favorite Things” from The Sound of Music .
Where to Eat in Pittsburgh and Why
Some say it’s the worst food city in the United States. Others claim it’s not that bad. Here’s how to make the most out of a trip to the Steel City.
The 2018 Holiday Gift Guide
Tried and tested by the Richard Eaglespoon team, or not, but still pretty good too.