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Food
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The Sliming
How processed beef trimmings got rebranded, again and again and again.
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I’m Doing It Wrong: Chili
Here is the non-vegetarian, mushroom-free chili recipe you asked for.
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Modest Martha
Why I love Martha Stewart’s quietly revolutionary new cooking show.
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Trojan Horse Meat
A New York chef planned to serve raw horse meat. It would have been a disaster—but not for the reason you think.
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Cracking Eggs 101
How physics can help you when you’re making your next soufflé.
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When Life Gives You Lemons, Put Them in Everything
In praise of the oft-neglected, universally useful seasoning.
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Vegan Feud
Animal rights activists would accomplish a lot more if they stopped attacking the Humane Society.
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Indoor Grill Master
Can grilling inside an apartment ever compare to the real thing?
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Mormonism’s Jell-O Mold
Why do we associate the religion with the gelatin dessert?
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Ignore Your Oven Dial
You can’t control the temperature of your oven very well, so stop worrying about it.
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Food as Fuel
This summer’s drought highlights the madness of the government’s ethanol mandates.
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One Hundred Ways To Ruin Ice Cream
An evaluation of four new artisanal ice cream cookbooks.
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The Andy Warhol New York City Diet
Warhol’s obsession with the Automat and his dream to start a restaurant chain of his own.
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Somebody Has To Bring Home the Bacon
A history of Andy Warhol’s relationship with food—including that weird Schrafft’s commercial.
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More Than One Way To Butcher a Cow
What a slab of steak can tell us about food patent law.
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The Butcher Next Door
Why the rise of DIY urban animal slaughter is bad for people and animals.
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The Foodie Hell Experience
What the ill-conceived and poorly executed Great GoogaMooga Festival says about urban food obsessives.
