Chris E. Crowley @chrisecrowley Twitter profile

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Chris E. Crowley

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2 years

have watched like 6 times. it might be the greatest work of art of the biden era...

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My Weekend as a 28-year-old in Chicago Illinois

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Patrick Mahomes straight up sounds like Kenny Powers

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thinking about all the things i've accomplished during quarantine: forgetting how to read, increasing my screen time by 100 percent, losing my short time memory, finding new uses for pillsbury biscuits, no longer being able to form complicated thoughts,

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The Smith is easily the most evil restaurant in NYC. Not only is it a basic brunch spot, the owner’s parents are, respectively, a Sackler and the lawyer who defended Epstein.

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you live in new york, in a rat-infested apartment that has one window looking at a brick wall and costs $1,700 a month, what do you mean you would never fall for a scam

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conde nast is proof that, if you try hard enough, you can always make things worse and aspire to fuck up a situation up more than anyone imagined possible

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2 years

ok so in Lyon, ‘the culinary capital of the world,’ they have a Boston-themed bar… what if the French get really into Boston like they have Brooklyn… start calling things “tres Boston”

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5 years

i wrote an obituary for a jean-georges cook named jesus roman melendez. he didn’t have a big name, or get recognition. he was the sort of laborer, his coworkers say, that restaurants like jg depend on - even if they don't get the credit.

He Was the Backbone of Jean-Georges

Jesus Roman Melendez played a crucial role at one of Manhattan’s most celebrated restaurants.

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2 years

trend reporting is psychotic... writers will be like "new york's downtown elite are getting into gnostic mysticism, and it's reverberating through america's culture" and none of the reporters can find more than three people. meanwhile jeff in missouri is playing cornhole

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The world that these people imagine & want to create is not better for anyone, it's not more connected... it is lonelier, more isolated, & entrenches inequalities in our country. It is for and creates adult babies who don't know how to talk to other people

Maybe We Don’t Need Groceries in 15 Minutes After All (Published 2022)

Venture capital bet big on start-ups using vacant retail space to store groceries on demand. But investors didn’t understand the dynamic of the city.

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4 years

I will always remember the defining moments of the Trump presidency

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7 years

U bum @StephenCurry30 already said he ain't going! So therefore ain't no invite. Going to White House was a great honor until you showed up!

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adam rapoport said food is political and then it all happened

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wrote about bourdain, my dad, and their addictions

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RIP to the Astor Place Kmart, which always felt like a perfect location for a shopping scene gone wrong in a zombie apocalypse movie

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4 years

do not avert your eyes from how fucking bleak things are

NYC Restaurant Workers Pushed to Food Pantries and Homelessness While Jobs Remain Scarce

With nearly 60 percent of hospitality industry workers out of jobs in NYC, many have been forced to turn to a patchwork of food relief to survive

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4 years

i still think about this article on a struggling dumpling shop owner often. we can't talk about what’s wrong with the restaurant industry without talking about what we're willing pay for food, & how little this country values food & the work to make it.

The Story Behind Great Taste’s ‘Five Dumplings for a Dollar’ Deal

This Sunset Park eatery is known for dishing up the best dumplings in New York City. So why is its owner, Mr. Chen, barely breaking even?

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@nonpoccafe ?

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4 years

Biden and the crew really assembled like the Avengers! ✊🏽😭 #Election2020results

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i spoke to the bartenders who are speaking out against the espresso martini

Espresso Martinis Are Incredibly Hot. Bartenders Hate Them.

“No more! Please! No more espresso martinis!”

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3 years

Spoke w/ some people about working in restaurants while sick or injured: cooking after contracting salmonella, going in the day after getting hit by a car, waiting tables with a torn tendon that they couldn't take time to properly heal. It's not COVID

The Awful Way Restaurants Treat Sick Workers

Will anything change because of Omicron?

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3 years

Convinced that we are about to reach a "commuting is trauma" moment in the discourse

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2 years

a Brit trademarking the word "taqueria" and sending a cease and desist letter to prevent a Mexican immigrant from using it --- a fitting way to honor their late queen. Marvelous

London Restaurant Threatens Outstanding Taqueria Sonora With Legal Action Over Use of the Word...

"If you can’t even call your taco place a taqueria, where do you even start?"

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3 years

I don't think people should be held responsible for the sins of their (god awful) parents, or grandparents, that is, lol, unless you decide you can profit from their sins and launder their money into your creative/business pursuits

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4 years

my heart aches for everyone who lost goya today

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4 years

mission chinese was supposed to be a better restaurant. but sometimes toxicity isn't about just one person, but a system that enables individual bad behavior. i talked to 26 employees about how mission failed to live up to its purported ideals.

The Nightmare Inside Mission Chinese Food

The restaurant’s chefs preached kindness. Behind the scenes, it was a different story.

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3 years

new york is ending to-go cocktails... cancel culture is real

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2 years

celebrating the irish-american diaspora today and everyday

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4 years

one of my questions for writers asking "why don't writers talk to regular restaurant workers more?" is have you ever tried to talk to restaurant workers? people are afraid to go on the record about the most benign shit. and they don't necessarily have the time or want to.

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3 years

summer of hedonism fizzled out; summer of panic settled in

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i wrote an obituary for anh-tuyet nguyen. she wasn’t a chef, founder of a restaurant group, a server or a porter. but she was a mentor and mother figure to many in nyc’s vietnamese restaurants — and one of the most important people to that blossoming scene

She Was a Godmother for NYCs Vietnamese Restaurant Community

Remembering Anh-Tuyet Nguyen.

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4 years

people who work in restaurants should've been getting hazard pay this whole time, in reality they've been asked to enforce government rules while making less money

Stressed-out restaurant workers forced to play public health police during the pandemic

The CDC has issued guidelines on how to deal with problem restaurant customers, but enforcement is taking a toll.

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5 years

why i'm leaving new york

The Times Square Sbarro Is Closed

New York is over.

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2 years

Keith McNally has finally gone too far.... he has described James Corden as "a hugely gifted comedian"

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4 years

can’t wait for the sequel big guy

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my mom’s new dog looks like the fire chief in a small new england town

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layoffs, furloughs, and pay cuts are particularly upsetting when there are people at the very top who are not making bigger sacrifices that they can very much afford to take. that is all.

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5 years

only someone who has never been to broadway junction, a complex where 3 subway lines intersect, could be fooled into believing a single churro vendor could create "congestion"

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Mayor on NYPD arrest of churro seller in subways: "The facts are she was there multiple times and was told multiple times that’s not a place you can be and it’s against the law and it’s creating congestion and she shouldn’t have been there.”

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3 years

@RaxKingIsDead now, we can achieve our real goal: companies offering drug stipends

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my friend telling me she is moving to clinton hill when in fact she is moving to prospect heights

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5 years

@MarciaBelsky the very worst penny pinchers i've dealt with are people who inherited enormous generational wealth (which isn't to say all trust funders, but definitely all of the ones who barely work lol)

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per her instagram, molly baz is stepping down from video: "I've asked cne to release my from the video obligations of my contracts"

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4 years

talked to sohla about the power of hot dogs

Sohla El-Waylly’s Grub Street Diet

“Sounds crazy, but it was seriously delicious.”

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4 years

try to avoid yang discourse but his tweet about street vendors is so dumb. they are also people trying to survive, who have by & large been excluded from relief & left out of that conversation. anyway here’s what street vendors contribute to the city

The Street Vendors Who Are Fighting Against Hunger

A new program is spearheaded by the same people it aims to help.

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4 years

it's called investigative journalism

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men will literally go on a cross-country road trip visiting America's classic diners, drive-ins, and dives rather than go to therapy

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5 years

The actual human beings who make up the hospitality industry simply will not be able to survive this disaster, and it is unconscionable that the people in charge, so far, seem willing to simply let them become casualties of the crisis.

Restaurants Are Begging for Help. Is Anyone Even Listening?

Calls for some sort of stimulus package have been met with a deafening silence.

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4 years

The bullshit about regular people “jumping in line” for the vaccine really contains all the worst of covid discourse — definitive proclamations, focus on individuals, aggressive judgements about people you know nothing about. You just assume the worst?

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4 years

“And Chris Morocco [the director of the Test Kitchen] directly told me he didn’t like how quickly I moved up, so he wanted to make sure this person would never be allowed to develop recipes.” As she puts it, management didn’t want another “Sohla problem.”

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Some owners have complained workers aren't coming back because of unemployment & stimulus. Others see this for what it is: "The issue isn’t that people are being paid more for unemployment. The issue is that they’re not being paid enough for their jobs.”

Jobs Are Returning to New York’s Restaurants. Will Workers?

“Everyone was saying, ‘Good luck. It’s been hell.’”

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2 years

went to gino's in bay ridge last night, it was packed... there was the table of 12~ where 1 lady pulled out a giant wad of cash to pay for everyone. the dad watching hockey on his iphone the whole meal. guys wearing tight sweaters & big gold chains. hottest restaurant in nyc rn

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“will republican senators keep their word about the supreme court?” twitter

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@jeremypgordon he knew how good he was, and he didn't want to deny young people the chance to see the best player in baseball crush it, so he altruistically extended his reign through the use of steroids. and he gets punished for doing the right thing?

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I’m working with A24 on a gritty reboot of Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives

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i wrote about one of the biggest issues plaguing New York restaurants right now... the rise of Fake Caesars. As my friend Midtown Jim asked me, "what's wrong with people?"

Stop Calling Every Salad a ‘Caesar’

If it features fennel and tahini, that salad is something else.

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4 years

i talked to a bunch of people — cooks, bartenders, an undocumented food runner, managers, street vendors — about fatigue, anxiety, isolation, and how this year has affected their mental health

NYC Restaurant Workers Grapple With the Mental Toll of COVID

“All of this is kind of killing me right now.”

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5 years

[to the tune of "born in the u.s.a"] got in a little hometown jam so they put a rifle in my hand sent me off to go and kill the 30-50 feral hogs that run into my yard while my small kids play

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Here is our obituary for Anne Saxelby, who died this weekend at the age of 40. She was a kind person, hugely influential in her world, & a generous advocate for both the people whose products she sold and her peers in Essex Street and beyond

Anne Saxelby Made New York a Better Place to Eat

The food world is mourning her death and celebrating her outsize impact.

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2 years

new trend is morning bagel and coffee carts being converted into weed carts

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Imagining Parts Unknown but hosted by Adrian Chiles, who goes to different cities in every episode only to discover that the food can't compete with Britain's

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wrote this last year about my dad, who yesterday accidentally texted the family group chat, instead of his sober friends group chat, about how grateful he is to be sober and alive

Anthony Bourdain, Addiction, and the Hope for a Better Life

A year after his death, Bourdain’s story of recovery can still inspire.

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3 years

pitching a big trend piece called "Everyone Is Drinking Appletinis Now" (no one is) in order to usher in the second coming of the Appletini

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I ate a sandwich at a lake

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David Remnick earns over a million dollars a year.

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On wages so low that more than 50% of your income goes to rent:

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just got a pr email in which the rep referred to a chef's "sober lifestyle" as part of her "embracing the wellness trend." i did not know addiction is so out of style!

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@madelesque @bridgetgillard more people need to ask this question

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this is so grim and depressing — even more so as these companies look to bring laws like california's prop 22 to more states

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Soon the wine avant-garde will be people who make extremely conventional wine: “We were inspired by our parents stories of playing Slap the Bag with boxes of Franzia. We wanted to bring back that old-school millennial experience.”

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thank you vegetable jesus

Superiority Burger Is Relocating to the Odessa Diner Space

“It’s always been my dream space.”

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5 years

okay, hear me out, mario salerno grub street diet

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everyone is talking about the three-day weekend, no one is talking about how we shouldn't work at all during the month of august

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This year, I've gone out in Carroll Gardens more than ever before and I'm ready to call it... Carroll Gardens is New York's next hot nightlife neighborhood. Just this past Friday, I saw guys hanging outside the Union Market. There were teens playing tag. People were even at a bar

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A whole ecosystem of services designed to keep you at home -- you get your food delivered so you can keep streaming your mediocre tv show, god forbid you interact with anyone

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wow i love to learn the news on twitter dot com!!!

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george santos grub street diet

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michael cohen grub street diet

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the atlantic says the sound of gentrification is silence but that's changing... the sound of gentrification is the ear-splitting, annoying ass racket of pickleball games

Shattered Nerves, Sleepless Nights: Pickleball Noise Is Driving Everyone Nuts (Published 2023)

The incessant pop-pop-pop of the fast-growing sport has brought on a nationwide scourge of unneighborly clashes, petitions, calls to the police and lawsuits, with no solution in sight.

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this has moved me. i now realize feminism is good

Shell to Become She'll for International Women’s Day

The name change is part of the She Will initiative, which highlights the company's dedication to a gender balanced workplace.

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ran out of milk, momentarily considered putting ice cream in my coffee

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entering the heart of darkness (the East Village the day of Santacon)

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Let Trump come back to Twitter for one tweet about the Diet Coke button

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For most of the last 11 yrs, Dan Rossi (the Hot Dog King) has slept outside the Met to protect "his spot." The city, he insists, wants him out, for someone else's benefit. “When they shut me down a few weeks ago, everything was exposed — everything.”

Last Stand of the Hot Dog King

“This is like the Alamo.”

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adam rapoport is out

Bon Appétit’s Editor-in-Chief Resigns After Staff Outcry

Employers and contributors had called for Adam Rapoport to step down after a photo of him in brownface resurfaced on social media.

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bon appétit editor-at-large andrew knowlton's restaurant is on bon appétit's 50 best new restaurants, a list he was intimately involved with until this year

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nyt op-ed section should be run by the guy who threw a shoe at bush

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The fact that 50 percent of my coworkers have left New York over the last two years? Many citing low pay (for frequently outrageous hours)? That's lowbrow despicable.

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I wrote about the only news that matters this week: Great N.Y. Noodletown is back

Great N.Y. Noodletown Makes Its Triumphant Return

A long-delayed reopening has finally happened.

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3 years

I feel like everyone trying to make Midtown a thing in 2022 isn't setting their goals high enough... if you weren't all cowards you'd go all in the Financial District as NYC's next great nightlife neighborhood

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dimes square adjacent? oh you mean acclaimed chinatown restaurant wu's wonton king?

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what no one has talked about *lately* with this espresso martini thing is that, as with everything terrible that has happened in nyc in recent years, the williamsburg australians were doing it first

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3 years

me, on my 7th appletini of the evening: i'm doing this for the bars

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3 years

Just walked by a totally packed natural wine bar for fuck boys — the work of Adam Rapoport’s BA is complete

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I think this, by @little_jimmee , speaks to the frustration & anger many in the food industry feel. The vaccine rollout being the latest ex. of how (as @ericriveracooks said) they're called essential workers but disregarded & not treated like ones

I Work in a Restaurant. When Will I Get Vaccinated?

Am I “essential,” or not?

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this one is for bean hive

The Grub Street Diet of Rancho Gordo’s Steve Sando

“I have all the beans I want, which definitely helps.”

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2 years

i am taking some zoomers who are visiting nyc for the first time to greenpoint... i want to show them where millenial brooklyn culture is still thriving before it disappears

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I wrote this in 2019; my dad has since relapsed, once almost to an end. I don’t wish having an addict for a parent on another, but in some ways I feel blessed to know so intimately what it means to love & be loved by someone who is broken & has hurt you.

Anthony Bourdain, Addiction, and the Hope for a Better Life

A year after his death, Bourdain’s story of recovery can still inspire.

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@GMPaiella tiktok voice: here's what i've found out about how you can survive nuclear war

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the food of the summer is clams

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In extremely tight news, my profile of Courtney Kennedy, who left fine dining to cook for cancer patients, is in this year's Best American Food Writing. Thx to my editor @asytsma , @emmaalpern for copyediting, @kingscrun for photos, & Courtney for her time