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Did Martha Stewart Really Steal an Employee’s Torte Recipe in the ’80s?
Plus, Daily Harvest launched “calorie-conscious” meal kits for Ozempic-takers and “Love Is Blind” is selling branded Chardonnay.

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A Vibey Guide to Choosing Nonalcoholic Drinks
Choosing nonalcoholic drinks can be overwhelming. We’ve made four easy categories based on your mood.

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Stanley Cups Apparently Contain Lead. Here’s How Worried You Should Be
Yes, your Stanley cup has a lead pellet in it. Here’s what you need to know about it, according to experts.

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PSA: Stop Eating Fried Toothpicks
Plus, a lawsuit is alleging that Dunkin’s non-dairy milk upcharge is discriminatory, a woman in California tried to steal 65 Stanley Quenchers, and more.

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What a Traveling Filmmaker Eats on $4,000 a Week in Chicago, Miami, and New York
She and her team fly to a new city daily while working on a premium cable documentary series. She grabs to-go breakfasts at airport Starbucks, sips Diet Coke at late-night shoots, and makes Ali Slagle’s Sheet-Pan Feta when she’s finally able to cook.

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Inside the Luxurious World of Illegal Magic Mushroom Chocolate
On the heels of legal weed and the growing fervor around microdosing, magic mushroom chocolates have made the leap from dry caps and dank truffles to luxe candy bars and bon bons.

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Kiss Me, I Just Put on the Hidden Valley Ranch Lip Balm
Plus, the Critic’s Choice Awards served bagged pizza as sustenance (Oprah declined), Gisele released a Giselderberry Boost smoothie with Erewhon, and more.

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Josh Wine Was Viral Long Before the Memes
You've probably already seen Josh Cellars wines everywhere. And there are a lot of reasons why.

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FYI, the Rich Are Drinking Glacier Ice in the Desert
Plus, Mark Zuckerberg’s latest startup is a cattle herd being fattened up with beer and macadamia nuts, and the poise of 2023’s girl dinner has given way to the all-consuming chaos of 2024’s rat snack.

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What I Eat As a 30-Year-Old Newsletter Writer and Case Manager Making $90K in Washington, DC
I bake buttery garlic naan and cook Kenji López-Alt’s San Francisco-Style Vietnamese American Garlic Noodles, indulge in an all-you-can drink aperitivo hour, and forget the Lactaid before a late-night cheesecake snack.

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Does a Grocery Chain’s Boycott Mean Lower Food Prices Are on the Way?
European superstore Carrefour has pulled PepsiCo products off the shelves to protest price hikes. But American consumers maybe shouldn’t get too excited just yet.

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Grief Closed Me Off to Love. His Salmon Dip Made Me Reconsider
Losing her father (and a string of bad dates) made writer Laurel Braitman think romance wasn't for her.

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What I’m Eating as a Plant-Forward Home Cook
In her February 2024 letter, our editor-in-chief reflects on eating meat, but only when it makes sense.

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The Cult Recipe Newsletter About Inedible Foods
Buffalo chicken pudding barfait. Salmon roe boba tea. The recipes in Dennis Lee’s “Food Is Stupid” newsletter seem like jokes—but the food world is taking him seriously.
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The Stanley Craze Has Reached Its Hot Pink Peak
Plus, the mascot at this college football game was a giant Pop Tart eaten in a chilling ritual sacrifice, and a former congresswoman was caught posting stolen food photos on social media.

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This Was the Year Ozempic Changed How People Saw Food
The rise of weight-loss drugs like Ozempic revealed a deep truth about our culture’s relationship to food and consumption.

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Our Year of Thirst and Rehydration
Giant Stanley cups, WaterTok, Erewhon’s $26 luxury water. In 2023, it seems we were thirstier than ever.

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How the Internet Ate in 2023
Martha Stewart’s Sports IIllustrated swimsuit cover. The Grimace Shake. Girl dinner. In this timeline, we trace this year’s biggest Extremely Online food moments.

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How a 29-Year-Old Public Radio Reporter Eats on $56K in Asheville, NC
She makes quick and easy Trader Joe’s lunches between story interviews and snacks on dried mango and almonds at long city council meetings.

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Taylor Swift’s Milk Bar Birthday Cake Is Deliciously Millennial
Plus, Ikea UK released a giant, limited-supply meatball for the holidays, and we tried the Doritos-flavored liquor.

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‘Wonka’ Is Pure Cinematic Candy
The prequel to ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,’ starring Timothée Chalamet, milks nostalgia while offering a sweeter experience.

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How Broadway Star Leslie Odom Jr. Eats in a Day
The Tony Award–winning “Hamilton” star Leslie Odom Jr. sometimes performs two shows in one day. One sandwich gets him through.

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Erewhon and Balenciaga Drop Very Expensive Merch, Naturally
Plus, Bradley Cooper served Philly cheesesteaks out of a truck in New York and a woman, after throwing a burrito bowl at a Chipotle worker, was sentenced to fast-food work.

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Inside Martha Stewart’s Finsta
For the last decade, the @MarthaStewart48 Instagram account has shared freewheeling posts about Martha Stewart’s personal life in chaotic, mesmerizing detail.

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Woman Chomps on Chopped Finger at Chopt
Plus: Martha Stewart revealed her go-to Dunkin’ order and Subway is launching a footlong cookie.

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‘High on the Hog’ Season 2 Shows How Food Powered the Civil Rights Movement
In an interview, Stephen Satterfield and Dr. Jessica B. Harris discuss how the new season traces Black food history, from Reconstruction to the civil rights era.

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My Quest to Becoming the Perfect Cookie Swap Guest
In her December 2023 letter, our editor-in-chief reflects on what makes a solid submission for the classic holiday contest.

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We Said We’d Be Friends Forever. This Dish Started It All
On a stoop in Brooklyn, I met my new neighbor. When she invited me in for meat-filled pastelillos, fried golden and crisp, my whole life changed.

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How Thanksgiving "Post-Mortems" Became My Family's Cherished Tradition
The morning after Thanksgiving is a prime time for reflecting on how the menu went—and maybe just a little bit of gossip.

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Red Lobster’s Endless Shrimp Deal Lost It...$20 Million
Plus, Magnolia Bakery is entering the edibles arena, and we tried the green bean casserole flavor seltzer.