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Congratulations are in order for many members of food media: Tonight during a ceremony in Chicago, the James Beard Foundation announced its 2025 Media Award winners, bestowing medals to food professionals working in cookbooks, journalism, and television and audio programming. The […]

Maddy DeVita at her home in Brooklyn. | Meghan Marin It’s the Friday morning rush at Paisanos in Boerum Hill. There’s a constant ding of the doorbell as people shuffle in and out of the neighborhood butcher shop. Private chef

For generations, Black restaurants have been a space for emotional processing. | Marcus Lloyd The day after the 2024 presidential election results were announced, Nicole Nicholas’s Flatbush, Brooklyn neighborhood was “eerily quiet.” She recalls how her cafe Aunts et Uncles,

If you’re the kind of person who finishes a jar of pickles and finds yourself tipping it to sip the last of the juice, kanji is the drink you didn’t know you were waiting for. Popular throughout India, it’s like

Street food is one of the essential joys of summer. After months spent hiding from the elements inside temperature-controlled restaurants, there’s nothing like sitting in the sunshine with barbecue from one of Austin’s most exciting food trucks, digging into a

If you’re still blanking on what to buy Pops for Father’s Day, I come with deliverance. We’ve assembled the best last-minute Father’s Day gifts, all of which either off super-fast shipping or require none at all. You won’t be the

Father’s Day is this Sunday, June 15, which means that this is the week to either put the finishing touches on your 30th “coupon book for free hugs,” or make this the year that you actually order a smokeless fire

With all due respect to stone fruit and watermelon, there’s no food that screams Peak Summer more than the tomato. It’s right now — during the hottest days of August — that tomatoes are at their ripened perfection on the

A version of this post originally appeared on June 11, 2025, in Eater and Punch’s newsletter Pre Shift, a biweekly newsletter for the industry pro that sources first-person accounts from the bar and restaurant world. This send is the last in

Demonstrators protest in front of LAPD officers after a series of immigration raids on June 08, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. Tensions in the city remain high after the Trump administration called in the National Guard against the wishes of