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3 years

I'd happily be paid $10K a month and live in a mansion for free to learn about wine for a year, can't hate the players

A Healdsburg winery’s glitzy job contest promised $10,000 a month. It was a stunt — and it worked

Two winners of Murphy-Goode Winery’s Really Goode Job campaign will earn $10,000 a...

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Unfortunately people loved it

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“The premise was, let’s do something so over-the-top and bougie,” he said. “We called it the #1 douchebag fried rice.”

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It’s time for a big dose of PERSONAL NEWS: I’m leaving @sfchroniclefood and will be joining @bonappetit as its new digital editorial director, overseeing the website. I’m also moving back to NYC!

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INTRODUCING a new column at @bonappetit : The Receipt Ever wonder how much people are actually spending on food? We're doing food diaries from ppl across the country. First up: a woman making $18K in Durham, NC

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Feel bad for the staff who still have to confront customers on masks....

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One cautious restaurateur is laying off any unvaccinated staffers because of new mask guidance. "It’s terrible but we need people to understand this is serious," she said.

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3 years

Just had my first catalytic converter theft and returned to what was fresh poop in front of my door, am I a real San Franciscan yet

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My dad! A very fancy superconductivity physicist

Rice Physics and Astronomy

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3 years

Congratulations to Dr. Pengcheng Dai for winning the 2022 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Prize, the leading award for experimental research in superconductivity.

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Really proud today of this piece @SFChronicleFood team has been working on. We talked to many local restaurant workers about why they left the industry for good. Here are the stories of six

Why six Bay Area restaurant workers left the industry for good

Bay Area restuarants have struggled to hire workers in a national labor shortage, with some owners blaming unemployment benefts. But for many former restaurant staffers, the pandemic was a reset —...

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2 years

The truth comes out: The podcast I’ve been listening about three single men in their mid-30s who just want to find a partner reveal that they’ve been dating 23/24 year old women

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Also in Michelin news: This chef has a collection of vintage Michelin guides and also opened his restaurant to prove he could get stars but he SWEARS that he's thrilled he just lost two stars

Palo Alto’s Baumé lost two Michelin stars. Its chef wants you to know he’s thrilled

Many chefs work tirelessly to achieve the much sought-after Michelin stars. But Bruno...

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3 years

Finally bought an expensive grinder and I’m upset at how much better my home coffee tastes now

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2 years

The most tortuous thing on the internet right now is the Superiority Burger Instagram 😫😩😫

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HUGE, HUGE NEWS!!! I’m hiring another food critic. Feeling super grateful to do this. Throw your hat in the ring to join our rockstar food & wine team, including close collab with the one and only @hooleil

Associate Restaurant Critic

Associate Restaurant Critic The Chronicle food team’s mission is to provide the most engaging and influential coverage of the Bay Area’s food and drink culture, one of the most dynamic in the...

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16 days

😎😎😎 JOB NEWS 😎😎😎

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@TheAtlanticPR

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We’re excited to announce @LegsFrank and @ssdai joining The Atlantic as senior editors for Culture, with @jenduende recently hired as a senior editor for the Family section. Read more about these moves below:

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The number of ZERO ZERO winemakers is on the rise in California. "Every creative discipline has its avant-garde segment, the makers who endeavor boundary-pushing, intentionally audacious work. In wine, that avant-garde is zero zero."

There’s wine. Then there’s natural wine. Then there’s ‘zero-zero’ wine

You’ve heard of natural wine. Now, some California winemakers are taking natural to the...

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Love this: A low-stakes, absolutely wrong food take that's written as if it's authoritative

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Wow I love this tho

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I love that people are the most indignant about paywall when they can't read a story about like $72 fried rice

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Truly cannot believe my luck: I'm hiring yet again. Love beat reporting and WINE?? Come join us and work with the incredible @Esther_mobley

Wine Reporter

Wine Reporter The Chronicle Food & Wine team’s mission is to provide the most engaging and influential coverage of the Bay Area’s food and drink culture, one of the most dynamic in the country. The...

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5 months

Gazan food blogger @Hamadashoo has been making ingenious dishes from aid packages and reading an interview w/him made me feel so many things

The Food Blogger Cooking Through Gaza's Hunger Crisis

In a refugee camp, Hamada Shaqoura turns aid packages into pizza wraps, curry, and "Gazan style" tacos, gaining internet-wide attention.

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3 years

"This has just become another footnote in the right wing’s thirst for casting San Francisco as a modern Sodom and Gomorrah."

All the outrage over a S.F. restaurant not serving armed police officers is absurd

Within the backlash is an acrid undertone of incredulity that mere restaurant staff...

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3 years

Had a dream where I sampled a cacio e pepe flavored Cheeto at a gas station

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2 years

My very first cooking section commission: This @garyhe piece on a FORTUNE COOKIE PIE CRUST Think: graham cracker crust, but with fortune cookies 🥰 🥰 I tried it and it's GREAT

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Very sad to report that my good friend and NYC reporter extraordinaire @katie_honan can’t log into her @Twitter account. Gone before she wanted to leave…. no one at Twitter to help her with her 2fa… @elonmusk plz assist a super-user

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The truth is that Eataly is great

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It's true: I'm hiring a staff writer! Looking for someone who knows how to report, is Online, and of course, loves food and food culture

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2 years

My hotel is nuts lol I’m too old for this, can’t even hear my TV, I’m on work travel, why

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2 years

V convenient for Noma to close just a few months after finally paying its interns....

Noma, Rated the World’s Best Restaurant, Is Closing Its Doors (Published 2023)

The Copenhagen chef René Redzepi says fine dining at the highest level, with its grueling hours and intense workplace culture, has hit a breaking point: “It’s unsustainable.”

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3 months

Devastating that a brief tenure in SF would ruin me forever on NYC farmers market produce. I will never know peace again…

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3 years

Should I let the word "Italianx" make it to print

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Big life update, I can now call myself an "award-winning" journalist and it won't be a bit

S.F. Chronicle wins six awards from the Society for Features Journalism

The annual competition honored The Chronicle for digital presentation, arts &...

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3 years

Since we published this list of restaurants and bars requiring vaccine proof last night, it's gone from five spots to 10

Here are the Bay Area restaurants and bars requiring proof of vaccination

With coronavirus cases sharply rising, a growing number of Bay Area restaurants and bars...

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2 years

Congee. Pot. Pie.

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My unpopular opinion is that less working from home would probably help people find dates irl. Not like office flirting but just generally more organic ways of being around other humans

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Dating apps don’t work and being out in public doesn’t work. What’s the secret third option someone lmk plz

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HELLO: I took over @hooleil 's newsletter today for a special, kind of chaotic look at my own favorite eats in the Bay Area You have to trust me bc I hate most things but love these

San Francisco Chronicle food editor's favorite Bay Area foods in 2021

The Chronicle's senior editor of food and wine, Serena Dai, has gained the reputation on...

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2 years

They're vegetarian at home—but eat meat when out with friends and family. Meet "social omnivores," a stricter kind of flexitarian

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3 years

Don't @ me, Sonoma is the superior wine tasting region. More affordable, more laid-back, still with incredible wine and sick views. Here's where to go, by the illustrious @Esther_mobley , who creates my bible for wine tasting

Here's where to find Sonoma County’s best wineries

These are the 21 best wineries to visit in Healdsburg, Sebastopol and all of Sonoma County.

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3 years

My new thing is slow scrambling eggs with anchovy and butter, highly rec

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Ok friends: I am HIRING! I'm looking for a senior cooking editor. This is coverage area you can really own!! Must have digital experience :)

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3 years

@SFChronicleFood @bonappetit I am also VERY excited to join the BA crew!! I’m thrilled to reunite with @soniachopra and so many others. BA is filled with talent and potential, and I think it’s just going to be so much fun to see what we can do together.

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7 years in food media, and it's finally happened—I wrote about a piece boba

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My brave colleague @hooleil is here to say EFF U IN-N-OUT

Bay Area’s In-N-Out fanboying should have ended long before vaccine news

In-N-Out has been in the news after San Francisco shut a location down for not checking...

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2 years

What if we just started covering World’s 50 Best like it were our rich, out-of-touch uncle, think about it

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3 years

HELLO FRIENDS! Extremely pumped today to show off @SFChronicleFood team's super serious, very important deep dive into BURRITOS:

Burrito City: Our in-depth, super serious guide to S.F.'s favorite food

There’s something inherently delightful about the burrito. That’s why when critic...

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@SFChronicleFood @bonappetit My team at SFC is a DREAM. I’m so proud of everything we’ve done together, and whoever takes my job will find a passionate, hardworking, and FUN group. You can now apply here. Let me know if you have q’s!

Senior Editor, Food & Wine

Senior Editor, Food & Wine We want to provide the most engaging and influential coverage of the Bay Area’s food and wine culture, which is among the most dynamic on the planet. Team members strive to...

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I am SO EXCITED to show off my last project at @SFChronicleFood : This special issue on wining and dining in THE EAST BAY

Where to eat in the East Bay, home to the Bay Area’s most thrilling dining scene

The East Bay is the most exciting place to eat in the Bay Area right now — if you know...

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3 years

Fuck this was good

Tomato-Butter Pasta Recipe

When you have ripe, perfect tomatoes that you want to enjoy without much fuss, this is the pasta to make (If your tomatoes are tasteless, your pasta will be too, so don’t try this with the off-season...

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2 years

Apparently pizza in Puerto Rico is VERY GOOD right now. Drooling from this look at the growing scene by @aliciakennedy

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2 years

After killing the Daily from my daily diet, I started again recently and today's obesity episode reminded me why I quit in the first place

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3 years

Wildly exciting news: @SFChronicleFood has a new associate restaurant critic and it's @cesarischafa . Read all about him here! So pumped for him to start

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3 years

This caption is killing me

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Very excited today for a mini-series called You Are What You Eat...or Are You?, on how we project identity through food. First of five stories comes from @jennygzhang : What are ppl really saying when they comment "where's the seasoning?"

The "White People Food" Meme Is Trapping Us All

How did "Where's the seasoning?" become the internet's favorite food joke?

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3 years

Unreasonably excited for local pasta experts to just fucking make cacio e pepe

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The Flour + Water team is opening a casual neighborhood restaurant for classic Italian pastas 🍝

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Scoop from @JanelleBitker : S.F. approved permanent parklets. The catch: More than 60 pages of new regulations means many restaurants need to tear theirs down

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The "douchebag fried rice" is back on a limited basis, and it costs $500 now

S.F.’s viral $72 fried rice is coming back. Now, it’s way more expensive — and for charity

The chef at Lily in San Francisco swore he’d never again serve a $72 crab fried rice...

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2 years

Would really love to hear from any U.S.-based ~ food social media influencers ~ who would be down to write a Receipt (BA's food/money diary series). Is that you?? Email culture @bonappetit .com with "The Receipt"

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A co-owner of Konbi, the LA egg salad sensation that closed last month, went off on how hard is to keep a casual business alive

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The fentanyl crisis is not something that's hidden away in SF. It's visible, and it's heartbreaking. Many, many people at @sfchronicle worked to understand it over the course of the last year year. Take a look

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Cooked tonight and my mom liked to ask my fiancé questions like: how does this compare to Serena’s other cooking, and who’s cooking is better, her brother or hers, and does she cook better than your mom

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2 years

Ok so they're definitely just going to bring back the Choco Taco after this right

The Choco Taco Is Gone and We So-Called Fans Are to Blame

After almost 40 years, Klondike has discontinued the beloved ice cream truck treat.

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3 years

lmaoooooo

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The hottest restaurant in NYC is clearly the secret beef room at Eleven Madison Park

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Proud to announce that although I had a massive meltdown this week, I am now post-meltdown, stay safe this retrograde friends, we are almost in the clear 🌝

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My brother just said he wished I had the enthusiasm for him and his ex getting back together the way I am excited for Bennifer 2.0

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3 years

FOLKS: @hooleil 's best San Jose restaurants guide is here

Best restaurants in San Jose

These are the 29 best restaurants in San Jose, including places to get Mexican and Chinese food, sizzling platters of Vietnamese food or crisp Detroit-style pizza.

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2 years

Shout out to fellow New Yorkers who treat restaurant dining as sport, status, and/or scene. You’ve kept me employed for many years and I love you all, even the ones I hate 🥰

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Day 9 of being at parent’s house. Delayed flight home bc of covid. Walk into bedroom to find my mom showing my fiancé photos of all her flowers

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3 years

Every night after dinner, my dad eats a Chobani yogurt

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3 years

I haven't stopped screaming since I read the you know what story this morning

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1 year

If you've ever wondered how much a food social media influencer makes and how they spend money on food.... meet our Kansas City content creator who clocked $352K last year

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3 years

I told a woman today she probably shouldn’t run in the bike lane as I tried to pass her on my bike, and she chewed me out. Did I miss a memo? Are empty sidewalks not good enough for running anymore?

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2 years

Thrilled to run this profile of one of my favorite recipe blogs, @thewoksoflife —which has a new cookbook and also is only getting bigger in scale and ambition. Ty @katchow !

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3 years

This weekend might be a good time to apply to be a restaurant critic!!

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HUGE, HUGE NEWS!!! I’m hiring another food critic. Feeling super grateful to do this. Throw your hat in the ring to join our rockstar food & wine team, including close collab with the one and only @hooleil

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HELLO, @hooleil 's list of Top Italian Restaurants in the Bay Area has been updated 🍝

Top Italian Restaurants in the Bay Area

The best Italian restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area, available for takeout, delivery or outdoor dining and as recommended by critic Soleil Ho.

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3 years

Bye 901 Mission

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The Pope my mother 🤝

The Guardian

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Pope calls couples who choose pets over having children ‘selfish’

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More restaurants are taking mental health breaks, writes @ekadvany . Those are the lucky ones. Many feel burn out but don’t feel like they can afford a break “Sometimes you have to decide whether it’s going to be your mental health or the restaurant”

‘Everything has a cost’: More Bay Area restaurants are closing for mental health breaks

A wave of Bay Area restaurants and pop-ups have shut down temporarily in recent weeks to...

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2 years

"The Menu" is a very fun movie, especially for those who know the fine dining world well. My lil REVIEW, wherein I out myself as one of those people who unironically considers mouthfeel

‘The Menu’ Is a Movie Made for Pretentious ‘Foodies’ (Like You—And Me)

Written by the people behind “Succession,” the movie is like a painfully accurate Onion or Reductress take on food culture.

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3 years

In all seriousness, Lily is a really great restaurant. I did not eat the fried rice.

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3 years

So @ekadvany did a sweet story about an unusually tall avocado tree in SF and ran into @hels ’ cousin, who was also getting avocados

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3 years

Thinking about year-in-review content and how we started 2021 without a vaccine 💀

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2 years

One thing he thinks would help... "If healthcare was provided by the government in a universal way, that's great for everyone. If you have those things offloaded to government functions, like in many other countries, you could have profitable restaurants."

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If you loved May December, try reading @AlissaNutting ’s incredible book Tampa, which I bring up regularly as one of the most uncomfortable and compelling books I’ve ever read

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2 years

HOLY MOLY, our best 10 new restaurants list is here and it's such a beautiful way to explore some real game-changers 😍😍😍

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Back online to find this story that made two coworkers cry, and now it's here for your Monday if you want to feel something too

How one chef took his grief and filled his South Bay cafe with 20,000 smiles

Inside the Santa Clara breakfast joint filled with a living collage.

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3 years

This new Native American restaurant sounds so good

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Why does the Apple podcast app only get worse

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@TynanBuck @delia_cai Is this real, and if so — and I'm being serious — can I talk to you for a thing we're doing

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3 years

Everything is terrible except this drool-worthy fried chicken list

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2 years

Eleven Madison Park had a huge opportunity for influence when it went vegan. Unfortunately, just getting rid of meat isn't enough. @aliciakennedy , on the grand fall:

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3 years

Hello, yes, mochi conchas and conchas stuffed with guava jam

Bay Area's new wave of conchas are the photo-perfect pastries you need to eat right now

Bay Area bakers are finding a following for their creative conchas, which may be stuffed...

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2 years

We read a lot of great food writing this year!! Here are some of our favorites

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@ssdai

2 years

Honestly thanks to every single person who said nice things about me and my work, I DID look at it obsessively and frankly it helped me keep going bc unlike Elon I can admit that I just want to be loved

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My incessant lobbying about the joys of Breadbelly has finally worked and am proud to say it is now on @hooleil 's new winter Top 25

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3 years

Love it when I get sent job openings from recruiters that are like "you'd be great for this internship" thanks loves, ur doing gr8

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1 year

It's true... the stunts need to stop... Van Leeuwen should be better than this

I’ve Had It With Stunt Ice Cream Flavors

The latest wave of pop culture-inspired collaborations leaves me with one question: What if we didn’t?

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3 years

How are ppl finding so much to say about a profile that said so little?

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2 years

How does a leftist feed themself, please, somebody tell me, I need to perform that I am progressive

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2 years

Not @genevieveyam finding someone who actually worked at restaurant where someone got stabbed like in The Bear...

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If you're interested in doing one or know someone who you think would be interesting (doesn't know how to cook! all fine dining restaurants! etc.!)... hit me up in the DMs

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The vulnerability was so cute until…

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