Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
gallery js end gallery js start of gallery code fullscreen Our latest Quick Bites brings us to Brooklyn for some Bunk sandwiches. THE VIBE There are five Bunk Sandwich shops in Portland, Oregon, and a quick tour around the Blogs of the Great Northwest quickly reveals that people out there love them, tossing about accolades…
On a bright day in the flats of San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles, the busiest restaurant around is a Panda Express tucked into a shopping center dominated by a Walmart. Running a fast-food operation isn’t like other restaurants — here, we dive into the big picture, the tiny systems, and the daily struggles of…
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Jackie Rodriguez Peña prepares a frog smoothie at her stand at the Mercado de las Brujas in Lima, Peru. In Lima’s Mercado de las Brujas, or witches market, Peruvians gather to dicker for talismans and ancient medicines. Giant slugs larger than a water bottle sweat sticky slime. Dried llama fetuses hang from the ceiling, their…
Drink lots and lots of coffee, they said. Stop putting artificial sweetener in it, they said. Here’s some butter for your coffee, they said. And now: if you take your coffee black, you could be a psychopath. What in the what? A new study, published in the journal Appetite, reveals people who have bitter taste…
Background The Paleolithic diet is designed to reflect the eating habits of our Stone-Age ancestors, all of whom are presumed to have been hunter-gatherers. But did you know that there are TWO important “Paleos” in the Earth’s history? The Paleolithic is a period in human cultural history that runs from around 2.6 million years ago to…
In an essay for the New York Times, Edward Frame, a graduate student at the New School, writes eloquently of the ironic remove required to work as a waiter in one of New York City’s fanciest restaurants—and also bathroom sex. Frame writes: In a playground for the superrich, I was an overpaid chaperone wearing a…
Imagine someone trying to do you a solid and educate you on what “true” Jamaican food consists of. And then they offer you doctored recipes, and the photos of the dishes look nothing like you expected. That’s exactly what happened when BuzzFeed posted an article titled, “27 Essential Jamaican Recipes You Need in Your Life.”…
Ronald McDonald must be feeling down. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) McDonald’s missteps are well-known. At a time when specialization is increasingly important in the food business, the brand has opted for breadth, offering everything under the moon: hamburgers, salads, yogurt parfaits, and fancy chicken wraps. And it hasn’t worked. In fact, that’s putting it mildly. Month after month,…
Billions and billions of hamburgers, and so many of them, to judge by the Yelp reviews, served to unhappy people. But why would anyone post a review of McDonald’s on Yelp? This is a question that people who post reviews of McDonald’s on Yelp often begin by asking. (“I’m not sure what is compelling me…”…