Best Food Stories Of The Week: Mario Batali
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
• After months out of the spotlight, Mario Batali is planning his next steps ...
• ... Even if people are, justifiably, far from ready.
• How sobriety changed the way award-winning chef Sean Brock looks at food.
• Tackling craft beer's bro code and its views on "bitch beer."
• Why the price of vanilla is currently higher than that of pure silver.
• The world's largest Chick-fil-A opens in NYC (and people are very excited).
Around the Web
• Food insecurity is keeping students from graduating college.
• Germany just opened a museum dedicated to dachshunds.
• Stephen Hawking's last gift to the world? Treating 50 homeless people to an Easter meal.
• You'll no longer have to sign those credit card receipts.
This Week on TT
• Announcing our (100 percent women) guest chef dinner series.
• No, coffee doesn't need a cancer warning label.
• Author Julia Turshen's latest project is a database for marginalized voices in food.
• Learn more about Alton Brown's return to TV.
• This new website is like "Spotify for cookbooks."