#114 | Play the Greatest Hits
12 Things We Learned in 2022
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Here’s one of our favorite poems that we shared in 2022:
ABUNDANCE
It’s impossible to be lonely
when you’re zesting an orange.
Scrape the soft rind once
and the whole room
fills with fruit.
Look around: you have
more than enough.
Always have.
You just didn’t notice
until now.
—Amy Schmidt, from Poets Respond
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Wishing everyone a happy and healthy New Year!
Play the Greatest Hits: 12 notables from a year’s worth of EAT.DRINK.THINK.
JANUARY | Ina Garten FTW
EAT.DRINK.THINK. #70, January 15
FEBRUARY | Plant Based is the New Organic
Buyer Beware: “It seems that the more “plant-based” has become ubiquitous as a marketing term, the less clarity one can have on what it refers to precisely. “Plant-based” could be the new “natural,” meaning whatever the person selling a product wants the consumer to believe it means.” From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy
EAT.DRINK.THINK. #73, February 5
MARCH | The Champagne Diet Was Real
To Boldly Go Where Vogue Has Gone Before: Tamar Adler revisits a history of diets in the magazine. “I spent several days deciding which diets to try, crossing all liquid diets off my list after reading a 1979 piece that described several women dying after following them.”
APRIL | 🍄 #Protip
Cooking Mushrooms? You’re doing it all wrong! Cook's Illustrated Editor-in-Chief, Dan Souza on the science behind why you should cook mushrooms in water first, before sauteing them.
Editor’s note: Try this technique and you’ll never cook mushrooms in the old way again.
MAY | A Heartbreaking Scam of Staggering Proportions
Pants On 🔥: "The great corporation which employed you lied to you, and lied to the whole country—from top to bottom it was nothing but one gigantic lie."
—Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
The U.S. House Select Subcommittee recently published a blockbuster report revealing the meat industry knew that keeping plants open during the pandemic posed a significant risk to their employees. They also claimed that closing the plants would create meat shortages, even though there was enough meat in cold storage to fulfill the demand for more than a year. Read the full report: How The Trump Administration Helped The Meatpacking Industry Block Pandemic Worker Protections.
JUNE | Who Knew This “Sport” Even Existed?
In Extreme Cheese Sports News: Gloucestershire Cheese Roll champion Chris Anderson announced his retirement this week after taking the title for the 23rd time. Watch this insane video where competitors chase a wheel of Gloustershire cheese (that can hit speeds of 70 mph) down a ridiculously steep hill. BBC
JULY | The Best Things Come In Fours
Diet Soda is Good For You: Tamar Haspel pulls no punches with her list of food principles to live by, but she notes: “I am shocked, shocked that I have persuaded basically nobody that these four things are true. But the fight continues.” The Washington Post
AUGUST | 🥒 #Protip
What’s the Best Way to Store Cucumbers? 🤔 kitchen
EAT.DRINK.THINK. #100, August 20
SEPTEMBER | Technically, Heat is Not a Flavor
🔥 No, Your Mouth is Not Actually On Fire: “But how can we properly describe an experience that is essentially a trick of the mind, a false cry of fire? It’s only an illusion of heat, and still we weep.” Why we love hot chiles. New York Times
EAT.DRINK.THINK. #102, September 3
OCTOBER | Holsteins are the New Angus:
Dare to Eat the Dairy Cow? “Within five to ten years, Holstein as a breed will be mentioned at the same level as Angus as a breed.” Bryan Flannery for Eater.
EAT.DRINK.THINK #108, October 8
NOVEMBER | 🥓 #Protip
Simply Genius: Kristin Miglore, author of Food52 Simply Genius: Recipes for Beginners, Busy Cooks & Curious People, shares the recipe for perfectly crisp bacon every time from Joe’s Bakery of Austin. Bon Appetit
EAT.DRINK.THINK. #109, November 5
DECEMBER | Pass The MSG, Please
MSG and Chinese Restaurant Syndrome: With all the scientific evidence to the contrary, why doe the myth live on? CBS News
EAT.DRINK.THINK. #113, December 17
On repeat this week: Play the Greatest Hits by Wolf Alice live at the Fillmore:
That’s all for this week.
We’re outta here. HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles.
―Jack Kerouac