#47 | If You Read Just One Thing This Week
Business As Usual
Hello and happy 4th of July weekend!
This week’s edition is a somewhat abbreviated one, and we wanted to share our July Spotify playlist to accompany your holiday festivities.
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Let’s eat!
Meet Deborah Madison, Carnivore: “I have never seen myself as a vegetarian, even though I spent most of my career writing vegetarian cookbooks.” The Counter
Where There’s Smoke There’s Bacon: We haven’t smoked pork belly in a while, but this charcoal snake is genius. America’s Test Kitchen
Samin Nosrat’s Grilled Artichokes: Recall the miraculous way heat transforms the flavors of wood into the extraordinary flavors of smoke and you’ll intuit why any vegetable will be improved by time spent on the grill. Edible SF
I Love the Smell of Crisco in the Morning. Smells Like Victory: “We must all help win the war. And one way is to save sugar for the soldier boys. Make your cakes without so much sugar in them. Make them victory cakes.” Atlas Obscura
Sticking Points: “But most companies I spoke with agreed that consumers who use their (nonstick) pans regularly will probably want to replace them every 3 to 5 years either way—a staggeringly short lifespan compared to most stainless steel cookware.” Taste
Yeezy Dines at Nari: “They were very normal, not loud, not demanding — just perfectly polite people happy to eat the food,” Techamuanvivit said. “Definitely not what you might think of as rockstar people.” SF Chronicle
Something Is Rotten In Flavortown: “Why would you go and eat broccoli if you just got to eat Doritos?” The New York Times
Kinda Sorta: “Last week, San Francisco became the first U.S. city to advance a permanent cap on fees restaurants pay to delivery companies. It caps commissions at 15 percent, but leaves a yet-to-be-determined carve-out for large companies to charge more for marketing.” Expedite
🔥 Up in Flames: “The Gas Industry Is Paying Instagram Influencers to Gush Over Gas Stoves. Every time you ignite a gas stove, you’re filling your home with many of the same pollutants in exhaust from cars—carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, particulate matter, and formaldehyde, which are all associated with a range of chronic health problems like respiratory problems and cardiovascular disease.” Mother Jones
Related: “San Francisco Becomes the Latest City to Ban Natural Gas in New Buildings, Citing Climate Effects.” Inside Climate News
No one man should have all that power: “There is only one power that can wrest control of the food system away from the powerful companies, their lobbyists and the elected leaders they’ve placed in D.C. specifically to safeguard their profits: political power. There should not be an election anywhere where voters don’t demand, and candidates don’t provide, details about their food policies.” Civil Eats
🤖 IF YOU READ JUST ONE THING THIS WEEK
Just Playing Chicken: “Put me naked in a ring against a tiger, without a gun or any other man-made weapon, and that tiger is tearing me apart every time, no question. But put me in the ring naked with a chicken, and I’m winning every time no problem, that chicken ain’t got a chance. And that’s why we’re above chickens and they’re there for us to eat.” A little appetizer from Gabriel Krauze, whose new book, Who They Was, is receiving rave reviews. Vice
🤡 BUSINESS AS USUAL
👀 SPOTTED
🎧 July Playlist: A bit of cha-cha-cha to warm things up and then some new-ish tunes from Lionel Boy, Demi Lovato, Japanese Breakfast, Aldous Harding, Locnville, St. Vincent, and more. Plus three Bowie covers, a vintage Patti Smith rocker, and a salute to Joe Strummer. Enjoy!
📻 Playlist archive: January | February | March | April | May | June
That’s all for this week.
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