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I will always have a soft spot for the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale. I know, I know — it’s just a department store. But during the peak mall-culture years, exploring Nordstrom’s carpeted halls was one of my first initiations into tastemaking; […]

Last week, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social, implying that he had single-handedly convinced Coca-Cola to start using cane sugar in its signature soda, instead of the high fructose corn syrup that has been part of the recipe since

Maximalism and gastronomic creativity rule the day at Alinea, arguably one of the most famous (and most relentlessly blogged about) restaurants in the United States. Chef Grant Achatz, along with then-partner Nick Kokonas, opened the restaurant in May of 2005

The above-the-bar mural at Busboys and Poets in 2018. In 2013, when I was 21 years old, I traveled with my Model African Union team from the University of Houston to Howard University in Washington, D.C. Trayvon Martin’s murder the

If you live in an apartment with a ventilation system that’s as weird as mine, you’re no stranger to the blaring siren of your smoke alarm. I don’t know about your place, but the smoke detector in my apartment can

Spring and summer are indisputably for salads. Just about everything crunchy and colorful and fresh comes into season, and especially when temperatures begin to climb, the best way to do justice to all those summer vegetables is to let them

This is what mint chocolate chip ice cream should look like A hill I will die on is that mint chocolate chip ice cream doesn’t hit right when it’s not green. And by green, I don’t mean the sickly tinge

Ah, a perfectly made martini. When in the right mood, is there anything better than its bracing crispness? Then there’s the saline hit of the brine, should you take yours dirty, and the yield of an olive’s flesh between one’s

Jams is a “protein PB&J” with 10 grams of protein per sandwich | Courtesy Jams Name a sandwich innovation more legitimately worthwhile than the Uncrustable — it’s certainly not the invention of Kranch nor MayoMust. For this reason, Uncrustables are

I don’t really believe in fried rice recipes. To me, fried rice is meant to be an empty canvas filled with an unorthodox hodgepodge of whatever weird leftovers can be found in the fridge or pantry. Half a cabbage? Sure!