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Ruth Reichl on Why Gourmet’s Website Was Doomed From the Start

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Does the Trash Can in My Kitchen Really Need to Spark Joy?

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‘Shrill’ Shreds Hollywood Stereotypes About How Women of Size Eat 

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Watch: Why Los Angeles Has the Most Exciting Filipino Food in America

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Michelin Announces 2019 Stars for Budapest, Vienna, Zagreb, and More

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Internet Continues to Dunk on ‘St. Louis Style’ Crime Against Bagels

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James Beard Foundation Awards 2019: Winners, News, and Updates

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Everything you need to know about the restaurant, chef, and media awards

The James Beard Foundation Awards are among the highest honors in the American food world.

Semifinalists (aka the “long list”) for restaurant and chef awards were announced on Wednesday, February 27. Finalists in restaurant, chef, and media categories were announced on March 27. The James Beard Awards Gala, where the recipients of America’s Classics awards are also acknowledged, will be take place in Chicago on Monday, May 6.

Winners in the book, television, and journalism categories will be announced at the James Beard Media Awards dinner in New York City on Friday, April 26.

Here Are the 2019 James Beard Awards Restaurant, Chef, and Media Finalists

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McDonald’s Says It Won’t Lobby Against Minimum Wage Increases in America

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The Kitchen Renegade

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America’s Obsession With Oat Milk Is Hurting the Dairy Industry

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Gay Presidential Hopeful Pete Buttigieg Disagrees With Chick-fil-A’s Politics but Digs the Sandwiches

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The Only Thing You Should Eat at the Airport Is Chicken Nuggets

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Why You’re Likely Going to Hear More About Being ‘Sober Curious’

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‘The Kitchen at Per Se Was a Clean Place but Hard and Heartless Too’

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Watch Jimmy Fallon Take a Tour of Famously Exclusive NYC Restaurant Rao’s

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Toast the Constitution With a Ruth Bader Ginsburg Beer

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Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants: Winners Announced for 2019

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The Unexpected Power of Hunger

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A Jar Opener That Will Make You Feel Like Less of a Weakling

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Amy Poehler’s Movie ‘Wine Country’ Is Based on Real Vacations With Her ‘SNL’ Friends 

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Why I Related so Strongly to Ruth Reichl’s New Memoir

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Chick-fil-A Loses San Antonio Airport Deal Over Donations to Anti-LGBTQ Groups

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Restaurant Workers Can Be Collateral Damage of #MeToo Boycotts. How Can We Protect Them?

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Order a Second Dessert and Say Farewell to ‘Catastrophe’ This Weekend

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The 7-Eleven of the Future Is an Organic Hellscape of Turmeric Slurpees

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In 2019, You Also Sleep at the Restaurant

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Miller Lite Files Lawsuit Over Bud Light’s Corn Syrup-Focused Super Bowl Ad

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The Unlikely Partnership That Might Decide the Future of Meat

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From Sushi Bars to Cheesecake Factory, ‘Superstore’ Star Nico Santos Embraces Dining in LA

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We’re Buried in Starbucks Cups. Finally, a Compostable Alternative Is Here

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An Anthony Bourdain Memorial Book Is Coming This Spring

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Instagram Mastermind Creates Fake Influencer Account That Racks Up Free Meals

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Ruth Reichl Relives the Golden Age of ‘Gourmet’ in New Memoir

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Following Plagiarism Controversy, Former NYT Food Writer Mark Bittman’s New Publication Changes Name

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Watch: This Seoul Sushi Chef Runs a Six-Seat Omakase by Himself

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A Great Food Sweatshirt, Famous Barbecue Sauce, and More Things to Buy This Week

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The Creators of ‘Chef’s Table’ Are Bringing ‘Street Food’ to Netflix This Spring

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Yes, Chick-fil-A’s Foundation Still Donates to Anti-LGBTQ Causes

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The Best Cookbooks of Spring 2019

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American Restaurants Are Finally Embracing Tinned Seafood

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Questlove’s Fake Meat Cheesesteaks Are Coming to Concert Venues Across America

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Massimo Bottura’s First Restaurant Outside Italy Is a Fellini-Inspired Party

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Beto O’Rourke’s Presidential Platform Is Actually a Restaurant Countertop

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Watch: What It Takes to Farm 10,000 Oysters a Week in Freezing Temperatures

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The 16 Essential Restaurants in San José, Costa Rica

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Where to find show-topping mariscos, brimming arepas, and quite possibly Central America’s best scoop of vanilla ice cream in the Costa Rican capital

Nearly 2 million travelers head to Costa Rica each year for its waves, stunning tropical rainforests, and epic beaches. But its status as Central America’s top tourist destination is a fairly recent phenomenon. (Many Costa Ricans credit 1994’s famed surf documentary Endless Summer 2 with putting the country on the international travel map.) Today’s throngs of surfers and eco-tourists have attracted restaurateurs from around the world, and the capital city, San José, has benefited the most from the influx. Here, you can find everything from global fine dining to health-conscious cafes to traditional sodas típicas, all highlighting Costa Rica’s bounty of fresh, local ingredients — especially seafood. Here, then, is Eater’s guide to eating and drinking like a savvy Tico (Costa Rican) in San José.

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Behind the Scenes of ‘Top Chef’ With Eric Adjepong, Sara Bradley, and Kelsey Barnard Clark

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The Chicago import’s hyped-up burger isn’t that great; order other stuff instead, says critic Robert Sietsema

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Some eat while they travel; others travel to eat. Whichever camp you’re in, Eater Travel is here with hundreds of meticulously curated maps spotlighting the essential restaurants and hottest openings in the world’s most vital destinations, all written by on-the-ground experts who call these places home. Looking for inspiration? Our comprehensive guides, features, essays, culinary explainers, and more will provide the spark you need to plan your next trip — and the one after it.

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A Culinary Walking Tour Through Taiwan’s Street Food Capital

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A short train ride from Taipei, Tainan is where many of country’s most famous dishes began

It is a widely held belief that the best street food in Taiwan exists not in Taipei, but in Tainan. A former Dutch colony, the southern city was populated by refugees fleeing China during that country’s regime change of the 17th century, and spent 200 years as Taiwan’s capital before it was moved north in 1887. Compared to Taipei, the roads here are narrow (maybe don’t rent a car), and the architecture is as varied and captivating as the city’s xiao chi, or “little eats” — famed delicacies that today attract culinary tourists from all over Asia and beyond.

The upheavals that shook Taiwan at the end of the 19th century and after World War II — respectively, Japan’s colonization of the island, then a huge influx of Chinese as a defeated Chiang Kai-shek withdrew from the mainland — didn’t reshape the culture in Tainan nearly so much as they did in the north, and that includes the foodways. When it comes to old-style Taiwanese cooking, most will admit that Tainan is unmatched. The dishes here tend to be sweeter than their northern Taiwan equivalents, too, due to greater Tainan’s 400-year history as a sugar (and salt)-producing region. And because the southwest is known as the island’s rice bowl, vegetable patch, oyster bed, and piggery combined, Tainan cuisine benefits from being close to the ingredient motherlode.

While culturally distinct, Tainan is an easy one-night detour — or even an ambitious day trip — on any Taipei itinerary. Bullet trains operated by Taiwan High Speed Rail take between about 90 minutes and 2 hours from the capital; you can buy tickets at the main station just before departure, or from special kiosks at local 7-Elevens.

Once in town, the dense city center is ideal for a walking tour of Tainan’s most acclaimed spins on street food, aided by this guide to crawling your way through them all. English is less widely spoken here than in Taipei, but the welcome is just as enthusiastic. In the end, your persistence will be rewarded by a peerless day of eating, with enough scenic walking between stops to stave off the meat sweats.

Note: You can get from the station to the city center by the H31 shuttle bus to Jiansing Junior High School (about 40 minutes, free) or Shalun Branch Railway (22 to 28 minutes, $25 TWD, or 80 cents USD) to Tainan Station. The bus drops you less than 1000 feet from the first eatery described below. (Alternately, you could also hop a taxi to the same address for about $400 TWD/$13 USD). Before eating, you may want to look around Tainan’s ancient Confucius Temple ( 台南孔子廟), located nearby. If you take the local train, consider starting your food crawl at stop 3.

Steven Crook is a freelance writer and co-author of A Culinary History of Taipei: Beyond Pork and Ponlai. He has called Tainan, Taiwan home for 24 years.

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New ‘Queer Eye’ Trailer Is Full of People Confronting Their Demons (Plus Makeovers!) 

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Watch Kate McKinnon and Aidy Bryant Play Oddball Meat Purveyors on ‘SNL’

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