Best Food Stories: 'Chef's Table: Pastry'

Plus, everything you might have missed this week

By Tasting Table Staff/March 23, 2018 11:25 am EST

We get it, you're busy. We're swamped, too—busy combing the Internet to keep you in the loop amid this fast-moving world, that is. Head into the weekend with these articles, food-related deep dives and Tasting Table reads stored away as dinner party conversation fodder.

All About Food

Notes for my kids. They are powerful women. My job is to guide them as humans to a good place in the world. pic.twitter.com/1xqeMvL8Dw
— Hugh Acheson (@HughAcheson) March 20, 2018

• If the pastry world is dominated by women, why is Chef's Table: Pastry dominated by men?

• Try not to cry reading Hugh Acheson's life advice for his daughters.

• Mark Bittman answers every question you've ever had about healthy eating.

• Why a French baker is fined $3,700 for working too much.

• A group of exchange students starts a fire in Italy while trying to boil pasta . . . without any water.

Around the Web

• The trek up to Machu Picchu just got a lot more glamorous.

• Marvel-themed lands are headed to Disney parks.

This Week on TT

• A D.C. Top Chef star is accused of sexual misconduct.

• Modernist Cuisine's next book is all about pizza.

• Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have chosen their royal wedding cake.

• This new machine promises to replicate the taste of NYC tap water.

• Pickle juice slushies: coming soon to a drive-thru near you.