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Sam Dean

Sam Dean is a former staff writer for BonAppetit.com. He lives in Brooklyn.

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Monsanto blamed for bee collapse, buys bee research firm; the optimist tumbler (not tumblr)

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Culture

Chefs, To Go

An expanding tech company is making it easier for private diners to plan events with professional chefs (which is more exciting than it sounds, trust us)
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What does elephant taste like?; the ceramic glide toaster

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Cooking

Pizza Cupcakes and the Smallification of Food

With the force of history behind them, pizza cupcakes are the future of pizza
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How Seamus Mullen Found Out He Had Rheumatoid Arthritis, and How "Hero Food" Can Help

The chef sat down for an interview with Epicurious
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Are your friends bombarding you with food porn?; the Crustache Cutter

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The world's most expensive vegetable; a glass that captures the phases of the moon

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Lifestyle

Understanding Brain Freeze (and What It Has In Common with Migraines)

New research has pinpointed how brain freeze functions in the brain, and might show a way forward to effective migraine treatment
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Whole Food seafood ban has fishermen fuming; Limoges boxes cute enough to eat

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Lifestyle

Thunk Pieces

With meat and bug juice, day drinking and liver disease, we take a look at the journalistic genre that, till now, dared not speak its name
Cooking

DIY Ring Dings (in Case of Hostesspocalypse)

Hostess is in some financial trouble, but we've got your Ring Ding-addicted back
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Hostess Brands labor dispute could lead to liquidation; a dieting man's R&B elegy to nachos

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My Morning Routine

If today had hot sauce, then Today Was a Good Day
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Hugh Acheson's Strawberry Spring

The chef has a post on Epicurious about his favorite berry (and his favorite way to prepare it)
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Big News, Parents! Bon Appetit's "Providers" Are Coming Out With a Book

Jenny Rosenstrach and Andy Ward are some of our favorite columnists (sorry, other columnists), and Jenny's coming out with a book based on their blog, Dinner: A Love Story
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I'll Take Mine Rare

Step right up to see one of the oldest cocktail books in existence, "A Complete Cyclopaedia of Plain and Fancy Drinks"
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Supersizing makes customers feel more important; delicate, laser-cut nori

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Watch the Close-Up, Drool-Inducing Making of a Sacher Torte

If you have a set of bookmarks on your browser for things that can take you to your happy place in the middle of a hectic day, this might qualify