Culture

Is the ‘Future of Food’ the Future We Want?

At the Food on Demand conference in Las Vegas, the food service industry laid out its vision for a future in which customers never have to wait. Just don’t think too hard about how that’d work.

Inside the Starbucks Collectors Cup Market, Where a Single Tumbler Can Sell for Nearly $2K

The pandemic and social media have fostered an intense level of commitment from collectors, as well as fraudsters creating fake cups

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• The Internet

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

It’s Time to Retire the ‘Julia Child Of’ Trope

Numerous female cooks and food writers have been likened to Child as a form of flattery. But it might be time to end the comparison once and for all.

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• Cookbooks

For Some Food Bloggers, Digital Cookbooks Are Better Than Print

Given the costs of creating a print version, going directly online can have higher dividends

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• Food TV

Can ‘Great British Bake Off’ Be Saved From Itself?

A roundtable discussion on where our favorite comfort watch went wrong, our love of Lizzie Acker, and the problem of Matt Lucas