This past summer, I joined Joey and his ragtag Friday crew at a warehouse in Prospect, OR where we produced hundreds of bottles of Joey’s Hot Sauce in eight hours of intense work. From washing chillies all the way to boxing the bottles, I got to see how their hot sauce gets made. Having grown …
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This table displays the food that my friends and I had on our first night in Merida at Museo de la Gastronomía Yucateca. I wasn’t too fond of the appetizer, a sliced tamal dish described below. Next to this dish is a platter containing four Yucatecan dishes and a cocktail with a grapefruit garnish. At …
Bagels have always been a big part of my life. We’d order in bagels to break the fast after the High Holy Days and pick up bags of cheap day-end bagels every time we went to visit family on Long Island. But bagels weren’t just food. Growing up, “bageling” was the term we used to …
I sat down, as I did every weeknight during my semester in Paris, at the small, circular table-for-two by the window. The kitchen was long and compact, the walls pressing in on each other, and my host mom was busy preparing eggs. Since this was breakfast-for- dinner, wine replaced coffee as the beverage of choice. As she served them up onto …
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Episode: 9 Hours at Azzies Produced by Hazel Feldstein Azziarah’s Cafe or Azzies is a social hub on the Oberlin College campus. In homage to This American Life’s episode 24 Hours at the Golden Apple, Hazel Feldstein spent a day collecting stories and exploring how Azzie’s is a community space. From 8 am to 5 …
It’s easy to import undue gravity onto a situation. So take it with a grain of salt when I say I was heartbroken. Heartbreak is a strong word for the sting of an unrequited crush. It’s a bummer, for sure, but it’s not lie-on-the-floor-clutching-a-pillow-grieving-a-future-that-will-never-be heartbreak. Or at least it shouldn’t be. Heartbreak or no, a …
Chopsticks, mythologized to have been invented 7,000 years ago in China, have become a global symbol of Asian cuisine – more personally, chopsticks have been a two-pronged pain in my side. Difficult to wield and remarkably “oriental-looking,” chopsticks indicated that the food I was about to eat would be exotic, greasy, and full of MSG …
