9 Best Articles in 2020
Travel + Leisure
Stuck at Home? These 12 Famous Museums Offer Virtual Tours You Can Take on Your Couch
Travel + Leisure
3 min read · 640 saves · Mar 13th · Going into a self-quarantine can have many complex issues and complications beyond having enough food and supplies for two weeks. In terms of entertainment, it…
The New York Times
The End of Meat Is Here
The New York Times
6 min read · 554 saves · May 21st · If you care about the working poor, about racial justice, and about climate change, you have to stop eating animals.
Margins
Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage
Margins
7 min read · 448 saves · May 17th · There is such a thing as a free lunch
The Economist’s 1843 magazine
Death of the calorie
The Economist’s 1843 magazine
20+ min read · 415 saves · 2019-03-13 · For more than a century we’ve counted on calories?to tell us what will make us fat. Peter Wilson says it’s time to bury the world’s most misleading measure
Guardian Environment
50 simple ways to make your life greener
Guardian Environment
~20 min read · 377 saves · Feb 29th · Expert tips on how to be kinder to the planet – from cooking and cleaning to fashion and finance
POLITICO
The great nutrient collapse
POLITICO
~15 min read · 360 saves · From 2017 · Rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are not only causing global warming, they are actively harming the Earth’s food supply by depleting the nutrients in plants. Politico Pro agriculture reporter Helena Bottemiller Evich digs deep to explain how plants are in danger of becoming junk food.?The air’s elevated levels of carbon dioxide are depleting crops’ minerals and vitamins and increasing their carbohydrate content. getAbstract recommends this article to people concerned about the falling nutritional content of the food on their plates.
Guardian Environment
Why you should go animal-free: 18 arguments for eating meat debunked
Guardian Environment
~12 min read · 332 saves · Jun 19th · Unpalatable as it may be for those wedded to producing and eating meat, the environmental and health evidence for a plant-based diet is clear
Entrepreneur
How to Feed Your Brain to Combat Stress
Entrepreneur
3 min read · 310 saves · 2019-12-24 · The right diet can fuel your success and happiness.
The New Yorker
Don’t Eat Before Reading This
The New Yorker
~11 min read · 309 saves · From 2014 · Anthony Bourdain’s 1999 memoir about working in Manhattan restaurants. “Gastronomy is the science of pain. It was the unsavory side of professional cooking that attracted me to it in the first place.”
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BBC Future
Is eating fish healthy?
BBC Future
9 min read · 60 saves · Dec 14th · We know fish as a healthy food, but pregnant women are told to limit consumption. Do the health benefits of eating fish outweigh the risks, particularly as stocks grow more depleted?
Eater
What We Lose When a Restaurant Closes
Eater
6 min read · 40 saves · Dec 16th · The story of Porsena — a Manhattan restaurant that shuttered this year after a 10-year run — is still playing out across the country as businesses feel the reverberations of the pandemic
The New York Times
An Elixir From the French Alps, Frozen in Time
The New York Times
9 min read · 38 saves · Dec 17th · Marion Renault · Only two monks know the full recipe for Chartreuse, and even in the pandemic they stuck to their Middle Ages motto: “The cross is steady while the world turns.”
The New York Times
He Seduced Me With Bread
The New York Times
5 min read · 36 saves · Dec 11th · Albertina Coacci · An Italian woman, trapped in lockdown, takes daily calls from strangers until she finds one who really knows how to cook.
The New York Times
Yes, Many Of Us Are Stress-eating And Gaining Weight In The Pandemic
The New York Times
4 min read · 31 saves · Dec 6th · A global study confirms that during the coronavirus pandemic, many of us ate more junk food, exercised less, were more anxious and got less sleep.
Grub Street
Guy Fieri Is America’s Most Misunderstood Chef
Grub Street
6 min read · 28 saves · Dec 21st · A trip to the ranch with the morale-boosting Mayor of Flavortown.
The New York Times
19 Recipes Our Food Staff Cooked on Repeat in 2020
The New York Times
6 min read · 28 saves · Dec 16th · Kasia Pilat · Spotify has its end-of-year lists, and NYT Cooking has one, too: Reporters and editors shared their go-to recipes.