Eater21 hours agoWhat does a Minion taste like?verified_publisherPolygon - Nicole ClarkWant to feel old? Minions have been around for more than a decade. Despicable Me came out in 2010, and that movie’s banana-loving, bean-shaped villain sidekicks have become ubiquitous in the time since thanks to endless merchandising, with wildly profitable toys, games, memes, theme park …
Eater2 days agoHow Atlanta’s Hottest Strip Club Became a Chicken Wing Destinationverified_publisherEater - Jacinta HowardWhen NBA star Lou Williams made national news in 2020 for breaking the league’s quarantine bubble to visit the world-famous Atlanta strip club Magic City — not for the performers but for the food — people scoffed in disbelief. “I remember watching ESPN the next day, and it kind of really annoyed me …
Eater22 hours agoHow ‘Buy Nothing’ Facebook Groups Are Emerging as Sites for Mutual Aidverified_publisherEater - Tilde HerreraThis story was originally published on Civil Eats. Yulia Koudriashova is a single mom and teacher living with her two daughters in San Francisco’s Outer Richmond neighborhood. Her parents moved in with them in March when they were evacuated from Kiev after Russia invaded Ukraine. With Koudriashova’s …
Eater1 day agoEater Nominated for 2 NY Emmy Awardsverified_publisherEaterEater has scored two nominations in the annual New York Emmy Awards, both in the category of Informational/Instructional — Long Form Content. One of the two candidates to take home the award is “How An Indoor Farm Uses Technology to Grow 80,000 Pounds of Produce Per Week,” an episode of Dan Does that …
Eater1 day agoRomance Novels Are Increasingly Getting Hot and Heavy in the Kitchenverified_publisherEater - Bettina MakalintalIf you watch cooking content online, Chef’s Kiss, the recently released book by author TJ Alexander, might feel a little familiar. A romance between an uptight recipe developer named Simone and a chill test kitchen manager named Ray, the story — set at an established food magazine — reads like an …
Eater1 day agoHow Polari Redefined Food Words Within Queer Circlesverified_publisherEater - Rachel P. KreiterTypically, if I said that I’d recently eaten an especially memorable dish, I’d probably mean I’d tried something new at a restaurant. But in Britain 60 years ago, to the mostly (but not entirely) gay male speakers of a dialect called Polari, this phrase had a different, codified, deliciously lurid …
