The New Yorker

WATCH: Danny Bowien Makes Jimmy Fallon Cook With Absurdly Huge Chopsticks

by Tina Nguyen

Yes, they look like props from a late night comedy show -- but any self-respecting Asian knows of the enormous chopsticks that their parents used for stir-frying. (Remember, the ones the length of a child's entire arm?). Danny Bowien respects the giant chopsticks.

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Eddie Huang On Cooking With Weed (And Cheetos)

by Tina Nguyen

Incredible revelations about the Human Panda abound in the latest edition of High Times. For instance: did you know that Eddie Huang smokes the reefer? If you didn't, prepare to be totally astounded by the rhapsody of weed that is this interview.

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Martha Stewart On Her Ex-Husband: 'He Went Nuts And Left Me! Can You Imagine?'

by Mariella Mosthof

Martha Stewart stopped by The Dr. Oz Show today to hawk her new book Living the Good Long Life, and while conversation turned inevitably to her Match.com dating life, she revealed a few bawdy tidbits we didn't expect to hear from ever-cordial Martha.

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GIVEAWAY: Tickets To Meet (And Eat With!) Adam Richman And 40 Of NYC's Best Chefs

by Laura Norkin

Richman's hosting the NYC event for the third year in a row, and says, "whenever you have a chef that's like, 'this is just something I'm playing with,' you know that's always going to be the dope shit." You know what else is dope? Winning free tickets to The New Taste of the Upper West Side. See how right here:

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Last Call

Last Call: Hipster Matzo Goes Against The Entire Point Of Matzo

by Tina Nguyen 6:36 pm, March 22nd

PLUS: Sriracha diplomacy, juice divorces, and David Chang’s BFF.
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News

Underground Chef Craig Thornton Of Wolvesmouth Profiled By The New Yorker

by Tina Nguyen 5:30 pm, November 26th

Naturally, such a food issue of a distinguished magazine needs to profile a talented, up-and-coming chef, and this year, they dine with chef Craig Thornton of Los Angeles’ Wolvesmouth, a sixteen-seat restaurant run out of his dining room.
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Feuds

New Yorker Pummels Bourdain For Leaving ‘Crude Hickey On Food Culture’

by Tina Nguyen 6:27 pm, October 26th

“Anthony Bourdain has turned a sort of belligerent gluttony into a talisman for insecure men,” writes Tamar Adler, before dissecting how his career based on vulgarity and “brutishness” turned the act of eating into a dick-measuring contest.
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Social Media

Your Morning Tweet: Where David Chang And Malcolm Gladwell Collide

by Tina Nguyen 10:48 am, August 15th

“understanding culinary distinction, “between borrowing that is transformative & borrowing that is merely derivative” [quote from Malcolm Gladwell]” — Dave Chang (@davidchang) August 15, 2012
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Ideas

New Yorker Writer Thinks Hospitals Could Learn A Few Lessons From The Cheesecake Factory

by Tina Nguyen 11:14 am, August 6th

Congratulations, Atul Gawande! You wrote an incredible article for the New Yorker that draws a parallel between two of the most controversial institutions in America today: our nation’s bloated hospital system, and The Cheesecake Factory.
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