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How store brands stopped feeling like a second-best choice (opens the original)
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When I was a kid, I was delighted by the brazenness of generic groceries. There was Dr. Thunder, a soda whose name made its ambitions extremely clear. There were chocolate sandwich cookies called Twist and Shout. Somewhere in the cereal aisle were frosted flakes fronted not by Tony the Tiger but, as I remember it, a polar bear: a perfectly respectable mascot, just not the famous one. That was part of the charm of generic food. It was forever making a little sideways gesture toward something else
You can buy Julia Child’s old house — but not her kitchen (opens the original)
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For $6.475 million, you can live in Julia Child’s longtime Cambridge home. You just can’t cook in Julia Child’s kitchen. Child lived in the house for roughly four decades and filmed several of her later television shows there, including “In Julia’s Kitchen with Master Chefs” and “Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home.” But when she left Cambridge in 2001, she donated her famous kitchen — pegboard walls, towering countertops and all — to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, where it
"South Park" saw our food fights coming (opens the original)
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Within the canon of adult animation,“The Simpsons” gets most of the credit for predicting the future, but “South Park” has at least one unnervingly good entry in the category. In the 2014 episode “Gluten Free Ebola,” residents begin violently dying after consuming gluten, and the USDA springs into emergency mode. The solution comes to Cartman in a dream, courtesy of Aunt Jemima: the food pyramid is upside down. He calls Washington. There are only minutes until dinnertime on the East Coast. Scien
These stewy mushrooms solve Monday night dinner (opens the original)
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A version of this recipe first appeared in The Bite, Salon's food newsletter. Sign up for early access to articles like this, plus recipes, food-related pop culture recommendations and conversations about what we're eating, how and why. I always want Mondays to be a lighter lift than they end up being. I am not going to calculate how many working Mondays I’ve had in my life, but even before I was working, I had a Garfield-esque disdain for the day. Not pathological, exactly, but persistent enoug
Taco Bell exposed RFK Jr.’s food-safety failure (opens the original)
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On Friday, federal health officials finally put an end date on the largest Cyclospora outbreak in U.S. history. Nearly 13,000 people across 21 states had been sickened, 570 hospitalized and two had died after an outbreak linked to shredded iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms. The CDC declared the outbreak over; the FDA, meanwhile, is still trying to determine exactly how the lettuce became contaminated. There are plenty of unsettling facts to choose from in the accounting of this summer’s outbreak
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