Best Food Stories Week: James Beard Diversity
Everything you missed this week
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
• Are the James Beard Awards actually getting more diverse?
• José Andrés isn't ruling out the idea of running for Congress.
• The restaurant the NRA asked diners to boycott manages to raise $15,000 for gun reform . . .
• . . . While NRA members leave angry Yelp reviews for the wrong restaurant.
• D.C. restaurateur Mike Isabella is settling his sexual harassment lawsuit.
• What it looks like when a tanker truck full of liquid chocolate crashes on a highway.
• This jar of raspberry jam is making the Internet very, very uncomfortable.
• Calorie counts are now legally required at all chain restaurants.
• Millennials aren't the only reason chain restaurants are having problems.
Around the Web
• Scroll through the best Twitter hashtag that ever was.
• Eliminating your commute to work is the happiness equivalent of a $40,000 raise.
• Schools are starting to get rid of analog clocks since teens don't know how to read them.
This Week on TT
• Why this year's James Beard Award winners are particularly important.
• IHOP's apology for printing a racial slur on a customer's receipt is a $10 gift card.
• You can now make dinner reservations and order takeout on Instagram.
• Brace yourself: Game of Thrones whisky is coming.
• Dylan Sprouse (yes, the Disney star) opens a meadery in Brooklyn.
• Queen Elizabeth and the royal family are looking for a new chef.
• The world's first space hotel is now taking reservations.