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Eater
The Immense Human Cost of Keeping Thailand’s Palm Oil FlowingThe global thirst for palm oil has never been more ravenous. Caught between it and a multigenerational war on Thailand’s poor are the farmers of the Southern Peasants’ Federation, who simply want a piece of land to call their own.
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Eater New York
The Complicated, Problematic Influence of TripAdvisor Restaurant ReviewsThe travel site is beloved and trusted by tourists — a fact some New York restaurants are exploiting however they can.
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Eater
Facebook Scammers Stole Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars Posing as Luxury Restaurant SuppliersThe discounted Alaskan king crab legs and caviar were too good to be true.
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Atlas Obscura
Saving the Hogs of Ossabaw IslandAn eccentric heiress, a daring mission, and the fight for North America’s most unusual pig.
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Atlas Obscura
The Cult Roots of Health Food in AmericaHow the Source Family, a radical 1970s utopian commune, still impacts what we eat today.
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Atlas Obscura
How America Embraced Aspics With Threatening AurasFrom futuristic test kitchens to Under-the-Sea Salad, midcentury Jell-O took a turn for the weird.
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Atlas Obscura
How to Feed an ArmyGo behind the scenes at the Massachusetts military lab engineering the fuel of the future.
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Atlas Obscura
The Once-Extinct Aurochs May Soon Roam Europe AgainAfter a decade, scientists are getting close to bringing back the massive wild cattle.
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Atlas Obscura
Remembering When Horse Diving Was an Actual ThingFor 50 years, this bizarre act was one of the Atlantic City’s biggest attractions.
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Atlas Obscura
This Depression-Era Science Trick Transforms Water Into PieHow resourceful home bakers managed to make dessert from practically nothing.
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Atlas Obscura
Make the Crystal-Clear Milk Cocktail Loved by a Spy and a Founding FatherUpgrade your punch game with a 400-year-old science trick.
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Atlas Obscura
Resurrecting the Spudnut, America’s Forgotten Halloween TreatBake the recipe remnant of a potato doughnut empire that once stretched from the United States to Japan.
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Atlas Obscura
Meet Baked Alaska’s Prototype, ‘Alaska, Florida’This parlor trick of a dessert has a long, complicated lineage.
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Atlas Obscura
This Depression-Era ‘Magic Cake’ Has a Secret Ingredient
Hit with hard times, American bakers turned to tomato soup.
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Atlas Obscura
Meet Red Velvet Cake Before It Was ColorfulBefore the invention of red dye 40, this confection looked very different.
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Atlas Obscura
The Debonair Restaurateur Who Inspired the First Chinese-American CookbookChin Foin forever changed America’s relationship with Chinese food.
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Atlas Obscura
It Takes a Village to Feed Cambodia’s Ravenous GhostsWhen the gates of hell open on Pchum Ben, communities gather to feed returning ancestors with sweet and savory rice cakes.
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Atlas Obscura
To Earn His Crown, Germany’s Tofu King Had to Overcome Sausage and the SlammerThe country once arrested purveyors of meat alternatives.
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Condé Nast Traveler
Oumi Janta Is Leading a Skating Revolution in BerlinCOVID-19 may have closed the clubs for the summer, but Berliners have found a different way to dance.
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Condé Nast Traveler
How Evita Robinson Built the Travel Tribe She Thought the World Was MissingLearn how Evita Robinson, founder of the Nomadness Travel Tribe, is creating a community for millennial travelers of color.
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Condé Nast Traveler
Singer Laura Mam Is on a Mission to Revive Cambodia’s Vibrant Music SceneA new era of Cambodian artists want to bring back the country's longstanding musical heritage.
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VICE
Banks Are Waging A Secret War Against The Adult IndustryWhen legal businesses are blocked from actually making money by banks and services like PayPal, our cultural acceptance of sex is pushed further into the fringes.
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VICE
This NYC Artist's Radical Bread Is Baked to Be Destroyed"If you look at bread, you have to look at subsidies and revolts and taxation. Bread has never really been simple."
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VICE
An Inside Look at New York City Street Vendors' Fight to Survive
The city only gives out 4,000 permits a year, creating a black market for vendors securing them illegally—but now one local legislator is pushing to offer up more.
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Off Assignment
To the Divorcée at the Dive Bar in BerlinOn learning German and starting over.
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Off Assignment
To the Woman Crying in the Only Gay Bar in Wuhan, ChinaOn secrets kept in times of transition.
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Off Assignment
To the Platinum Blonde DJ on Her Way to LaosOn running away and the story I didn't write.
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Eater
Porcelain That Looks Like PastryMargaret Braun’s sugar-sculpted marvels have appeared in books, museums, and before royalty. Now, she’s embracing a new role in the food world.
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Playboy
The Queen of Thailand's Drag Scene Is Fierce and FearlessPan Pan Narkprasert, a.k.a. Pangina Heals, is a force of nature who manages to say some serious stuff without ever taking himself too seriously.
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VICE
The Double Life of a Berghain BartenderMeet Roman Shamov—the drink-slinger with a colorful past as a drag queen, puppet vocalist, television actor, and breathing workshop guru.
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Architectural Digest
This Architect Is Promoting Self-Sustaining Architecture Around the GlobeMichael Reynolds repurposed tires, bottles, and cans to design homes that can generate their own electricity, processes their own sewage, collect rainwater, and maintain temperature without any additional fuel.
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The Washington Post
Street art has become a global business — and artists are worrying over its future
There are more ways than ever for artists to make a living, but at what cost?
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WIRED
Sea of Solitude Captures the Loneliness and Anxiety of the PandemicThe newly revamped game is the latest in a slew of indie titles normalizing conversations around mental health.
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The Guardian
New York's Chinatown pulls together to brighten the Covid darknessThe pandemic has devastated Manhattan’s Chinatown, but the community is uniting to support restaurant owners and make the upcoming Lunar New Year as festive as is safely possible.
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The Guardian
Bologna city guide: what to see plus the best bars, restaurants and hotelsThe opening of a food theme park will further elevate Bologna’s reputation as Italy’s culinary capital but the city has plenty more to offer, including superb art, music and medieval architecture.
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The Guardian
Harlem’s renaissance: how art, food and history are shaping its latest evolutionLongtime residents and new business owners celebrate the past and present of the neighbourhood.
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