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May 4, 2023

Tidbits – May 4, 2023 – Reader Comments: Young Voters; Writers Strike; Corporate Evil – Workers Deaths, Polluters, Private Equity, Crypto Currency, Debt Crisis, School Vouchers; SpaceX Explosion; Portside Cooking Controversy; Lots of Announcements

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Reader Comments: Writers Strike; Young Voters; Corporate Evil - Workers Deaths, Polluters, Private Equity, Crypto Currency, Debt Crisis, School Vouchers; SpaceX Explosion; Portside Cooking Controversy; Lots of Announcements; Cartoons; more

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April 5, 2021

When Did Following Recipes Become a Personal Failure?

Laura Shapiro The Atlantic

A new book that claims to make the act of cooking fun when it sometimes seems like a chore is an exciting, though daunting, invitation to improvise.

food

August 24, 2020

In the middle of two pandemics, cooking soul food has become my labor of love

Talia Moore The Counter

I continue to seek healing in the kitchen, the way I recover from the churning news cycle of sickness and police violence.

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April 20, 2020

The legacy of Japanese internment looms over my family’s history. For me, cooking forges connection between that crisis and this one.

Evan Jones The Counter

A bowl filled with dashi, rice, seaweed, and other Japanese ingredients. Next to the bowl is a can of the Japanese beer, Asahi.

Learning to cook Japanese food reminds me of uncomfortable links between the past and present—and renews my faith in small acts of resistance and heroism.

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March 30, 2020

The World War II food memoir that’s getting me through life in a pandemic

Constance Grady VOX

MFK Fisher's How to Cook a Wolf is a hopeful message on how to survive during wartime when food supply lines were disrupted, fuel was scarce, and people stocked "blackout shelves" in case of a bombing.

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November 25, 2018

11 Secrets of Butterball's Turkey Talk-Line Operators

Emily Petsko Mentalfloss

Butterball's Turkey Hot Line was started in 1981 with 6 operators; today's operators number over 50 and answer 10,000 calls on Thanksgiving.

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August 13, 2018

The Oscars of the Food World Finally Give Women and Chefs of Color Their Due

Helen Rosner The New Yorker

Gabrielle Hamilton James Beard Award Outstanding Chef

Of the twenty-three categories of James Beard Awards this year, (some of which were awarded to groups or entire restaurants), well over half were won by women or people of color.

food

January 22, 2018

The Fearless Cook Who Secretly Fed — And Funded — The Civil Rights Movement

Maria Gofoy NPR/The Salt

Georgia Gilmore, the cook who fed a movement

Georgia Gilmore was a Montgomery cook, whose fried chicken sandwiches and other foods fed the African-American men and women planning the bus boycott; the money raised helped pay for the alternative transportation system during the 381-day bus boycott.

July 3, 2016

The Culinary Journey of Michael Twitty

Joe Yonan The Splendid Table

Culinary historian Michael Twitty is on a journey to discover himself, through the food of his ancestors. Joe Yonan talks to him about history, identity, and what exactly goes into a kosher soul roll.

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May 23, 2016

Cooking With Cannabis

Jonathan Thompson The Guardian

In the two years since Colorado legalised cannabis, chefs in the state have been finding new ways to make a meal of it.

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