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The Viral TikTok Recipes Causing Food Shortages
Supply chain disruptions were a theme of 2021, but thanks to viral recipes, some ingredients were hit especially hard
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Your Least Favorite Gross Viral Food Videos Are All Connected to This Guy
Whether it’s Spaghetti-Os pie or table-top nachos, everything can be traced back to (literal) magician Rick Lax
How a British Retiree Became the Twitter King of ‘Big Veg’ Gardening
72-year-old Gerald Stratford started a Twitter account to share his vegetables. Hundreds of thousands of followers later, he has a book deal and appears in a Gucci campaign
Desperate Times Call for Elaborate Buttercream
How a new generation of social media-savvy bakers are breathing life into old-school cake decorating techniques
Dalgona Forever
Subtle Asian Baking, an offshoot of the popular Facebook group Subtle Asian Traits, now has more than 67,000 bakers trading recipes, tips, and a sense of community
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The Short, Troubling Life of the Intentional Food Waste Meme
It’s the latest stupid thing people are doing to get attention on the internet
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Who Will Save the Food Timeline?
The internet’s most comprehensive archive of food history — a passion project of one dedicated librarian — predates Wikipedia. Now it needs a new custodian.
What Do We Get From Grocery Store Freakout Videos?
Wearing a mask to protect against COVID-19 has become a politicized issue, leading to an increase in public confrontations — all captured on witnesses’ phone cameras
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The Actual Experience of Virtual Experiences
You can tour a museum at 9, take a mixology class at 11, and swoop over Machu Picchu at 3, but do these online versions of "doing stuff" really scratch the itch?
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With Their Restaurants Closed, Chefs Turn to Instagram Live to Inspire Home Cooks
How social media offers valuable information and a sense of community as folks stay at home
So Everyone’s Googling ‘Bread’ Now
Coronavirus isolating has led to a bread-baking boom
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Request Pending: Inside the Members-Only World of Online Beer Trading
Breweries are limiting in-person, to-go purchases of their rarest beers and labeling bottles "not for resale." That’s not stopping online resellers.