How Food Became Pop Culture: Here’s What We’re Reading Today
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Here’s what we’re reading today.
1. Mario Batali reflects on food’s place in pop culture
“Hopefully what this is leading to is people learning to shop like all good chefs do: We go and get all the best shit and come home and figure out what we’re gonna make.”
2. An earthquake in Ecuador has killed at least 272 people
7.8-magnitude quake has devastated cities and villages along Pacific coast, with authorities warning death toll is likely to rise
3. The Internet is changing the English language
“New ways of expressing one’s self on (and off) the web are always the subject of scrutiny, usually from corners that lament the death of “proper” language. When you look closer, though, the way we write online is likely just as expressive as—and perhaps in some ways more expressive than—the ways we speak to each other in person or on the phone.”
4. Trudeau’s approach in Saudi Arabia is eerily similar to Harper’s
A memo “signed by Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion, is a gem of hair-splitting, parsing, wilful blindness and justification for selling billions worth of fighting vehicles and weaponry to Saudi Arabia, one of the most oppressive regimes on Earth.”
5. We’re living in the golden age of weed dealing
“Smoking weed is acceptable enough that practically everyone is doing it, but a legal market doesn’t exist to drive prices down… In other words, there’s never been a better time to sell weed in New York City.”
