Eater1 day agoHow I Got My Job: Writing Children’s Books About Foodverified_publisherEater - Morgan GoldbergIn How I Got My Job, folks from across the food and restaurant industry answer Eater’s questions about, well, how they got their job. Today’s installment: Sarah Thomas. If you’re a parent of young children, you might already be familiar with Sarah Thomas’s work. She’s the author behind Kalamata’s …
Eater3 days agoGoing to Medieval Times Is Even Better as an Adultverified_publisherEater - Amy McCarthyOften drenched in ’90s nostalgia, there is no place on earth quite like Medieval Times. I had been to Medieval Times — essentially Middle Ages dinner theater with horses, sword fights, and a simple meal that you eat with your hands — a few times in the ’90s, at least once on a school field trip and …
Eater6 days agoMilk Bar’s Collab with Taco Bell is Peak Junk Foodverified_publisherEater - Jaya SaxenaWhen Christina Tosi began making desserts at Momofuku in the mid-2000s, they were all about playful, inventive takes on mainstream sweets. In 2008, when she opened the first Milk Bar, things like cereal milk-flavored soft serve, truffles that tasted like “birthday cake,” and cookies stuffed with …
EaterAug 4Why Zines Are Food Media’s Experimental Cutting Edgeverified_publisherEater - N.A. MansourI sometimes attribute my growing zine obsession to being — on paper — a book historian. I like the heft of folded paper, sometimes hugged by a cardstock cover, sometimes by a staple pinning sheets together; sometimes, it’s just printer paper folded to create a booklet, inked by hand. As much as …
EaterWhy TikTok’s Pink Sauce Was Made to Go Viralverified_publisherEater - Bettina MakalintalThe writer Katy Kelleher claimed Barbie pink as the “color of the year” in Refinery29 earlier this month, citing its appearance in Greta Gerwig’s in-progress Barbie movie and Valentino’s recent runway show and TikTok’s popular bimbocore subgenre. But what this trend piece didn’t see coming? The …
EaterCan Group Chats Give Control Back to Food Creators?verified_publisherEater - Bettina MakalintalDiaspora Co., the five-year-old company with a mission of building a better spice trade, sold its first batch of kadipatta plants this year, sending small green shoots to homes across the country in May. Also known as curry leaf trees, kadipatta plants have leaves that lend crucial flavor to many …
