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Tudor's Biscuit World Is the Best Thing About West Virginia

Every search for what it means to be West Virginian ends where the biscuit sandwich (allegedly) began

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The State of the Domestic Goddess

Every era gets the domestic goddesses it deserves, and in 2016, we have Gwyneth Paltrow and Chrissy Teigen

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Garrett Oliver Wants You to Follow Your Dreams

In the late 80s, while sitting in a London pub, Garrett Oliver had an epiphany: beer could be good. He was living in England stage managing rock shows, but was more captivated by exploring the...

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Barbecue As Social Theory

A night and a day at Scott's Bar-B-Que in Hemingway, South Carolina

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Maybe Just Don't Drink Coffee

♫ The best part of waking up is overwhelming anxiety in your cup ♫

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The Highly Anxious Herbivore’s Guide to Moral Vegetable Consumption

Rules for overly considerate non-carnivores

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The Luxury of Quitting

The undocumented economy of a small-town roast beef emporium

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The Summer I Lived in the Hardee's Parking Lot

The teenage fast food wasteland of small town Montana

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Steve Cook Is Not a Secret

So why don't you know his name? Meet the mastermind partners working alongside star chefs.

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America, Pizza Hut, and Me

An Indian-American kid goes in search of herself, and some stuffed-crust

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Hot Sauce in Her Bag

Southern Black identity, Beyoncé, Jim Crow, and the pleasure of well-seasoned food

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Escaping the Restaurant Industry's Motherhood Trap

How paid parental leave could solve the culinary gender gap

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Why Is It So Hard to Make Great Food Infographics?

Two new books, ‘Taste’ and ‘A Visual Guide to Drink,' try to bring data visualization to what we eat and drink

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Meet Jane and Michael Stern, the Original Culinary Road Warriors

Nearly forty years in, the founders of Roadfood are still changing America's restaurant landscape

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One Day at Panda Express

Every single thing that goes into one day of running a ​fast food​ restaurant

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The Cocktail at the End of the Universe

In search of the Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster, an imaginary 1970's cocktail from space

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Ina Garten Does It Herself

The story of the rise, and rise, and rise of America's queen of cookbooks

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Judith Jones, In Her Own Words

The editor behind Julia Child and Lidia Bastianich — not to mention Langston Hughes and John Updike — on life, books, and cooking

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Welcome to Utopia, Try the Buffet

What an experimental community in the desert can teach us about the perfect restaurant

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Investigation: Is the Moon Made of Cheese?

The question of whether Earth's satellite is made of curdled milk has been around for a long, long time

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Why the 'Kitchen of the Future' Always Fails Us

In a world full of incredible technology, why can we still not imagine anything more interesting than a woman making dinner alone?

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The Simple Perfection of a Cookbook Bookstore

A shop filled with nothing but food books is a certain form of heaven

The Eater Guide to Surviving Disney World

Magical Realism

In a world of Disney fantasy, does authenticity matter?

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How to Save the Family Farm in the 21st Century

Cruze Farm in Tennessee is reshaping American dairy farming, one gingham dress at a time

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The Mysterious Charms of Helen's Kitchen

In a small Mississippi town, one restaurant run by one woman holds pretty much everything — and everyone — together L ast year, toward summer’s end, the mayor of Columbus, Mississippi,...

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Sizzler and the Search for the American Dream

What does it really mean to be American, anyway?

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Welcome to The Golden Age of Food Radio

How a 1970s Italian pirate radio station is still shaping the conversation about how we eat.

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What I Learned Working at Tales of the Cocktail

Fear, loathing, talking pineapples, and alligators on leashes at New Orleans' annual wholly drunken booze conference

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Dinner With My Big Gay Family at the Old Spaghetti Factory

Welcome to Life in Chains, where writers share the essential roles played in their lives by chain restaurants—great and grim, wonderful and terrible. Here, writer Drew Zandonella-Stannard on the...

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One Night at Kachka

Every single thing that goes into running a restaurant for one night

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