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The 38 Essential Madrid Restaurants

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Where to find Michelin-starred guacamole, steak tartare, and chocolate-dunked churros in Spain’s capital

A cultural hub with world-class museums and gorgeous historic buildings and churches, Madrid is home to some of the most exciting and varied food in the country. “Spain’s capital is a destination that no gourmand should miss,” says lifestyle editor for Condé Nast Traveler (Spain) Paula Móvil. “It simply has it all.”

It’s easy to find excellent homestyle staples like fried cod, snails, oxtail, and the city’s namesake stew, cocido Madrileño, all of which Móvil recommends washing down with a caña (a small glass of draught beer). But it’s not all about traditional fare: From three-Michelin-star avant-garde tasting menus to hip Asian fusion to Mexican cuisine, Madrid is a place to “discover a whirlwind of culinary offerings,” says Móvil. When it comes to drinking, there is plenty of vermouth and sherry in town, and if a caña isn’t doing the trick, go ahead and make it a doble. If there’s anything Madrid lacks, it’s the thing tourists mistakenly come looking for: “Avoid looking for paella,” Móvil says. “Madrid is definitely not the place to eat this traditional dish from Valencia.”

Want just the newcomers? Head to the Heatmap. But for restaurants, bars, and dishes that define Madrid, read on.

Prices per person, excluding alcohol:

$ = Less than €25 (less than USD $26.50)

$$ = €25 - €50 (USD $26.50 to USD $53)

$$$ = €50 - €100 (USD $53 to USD $105)

$$$$ = More than €100 (more than USD $105)

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Tracking Fried Chicken Sandwich Mania

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Popeyes’s new crispy chicken sandwich inspired glowing reviews, long lines, sandwich shortages, and endless online chatter

The launch of the first-ever fried chicken sandwich from Popeyes inspired a nation-wide fast food frenzy the likes of which we haven’t seen since the debut of KFC’s Double Down nearly a decade ago.

It all started in early August when Popeyes partnered with Sweet Dixie Kitchen, a Southern California restaurant that famously got busted selling the chain’s chicken during brunch, on an exclusive early launch of the new sandwich. The following week, this new dish — which is made with a fried chicken filet, sour pickles, and mayo on a brioche bun — was available at stores nationwide, and almost immediately fast-food fans started expressing their enthusiasm for the sandwich on Twitter. After a week of positive buzz, Popeyes’s rival, Chick-fil-A, tweeted a message attempting to claim ownership of the sandwich, which the Louisiana-themed chain instantly refuted.

As more chains jumped into the Twitter fight, fans of Popeyes and Chick-fil-A started taking sides in the sandwich war. Meanwhile, take writers from the New Yorker to the LA Times stated publishing their thoughts on the sandwich and the mania surrounding its release, while labor and animal rights activists dragged the media for its enthusiastic coverage of a cheap, mass-produced fast-food item. As more publications joined in the taste-testing and take-writing, the demand for the sandwich increased to the point where Popeyes locations across the country started running out of the coveted item.

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“If taking my damaged reputation out of the equation gets foodies to come, I would do that.”

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The 18 Essential Restaurants in Reykjavík

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Where to find hip natural wine cellars, homey plates of hashed fish, tasting menus, and more in Iceland’s capital

Iceland’s capital of Reykjavík is often seen as a basecamp for exploring the rest of the island, but the quirky, cosmopolitan city on Faxaflói bay is a burgeoning culinary capital. In the last few years, many overpriced restaurants catered to an unsustainable surge in tourism, but with the collapse of low-cost airline Wow Air, those gimmicky restaurants have disappeared, making way for new natural wine bars, a Copenhagen-inspired bakery, and a food hall in a refurbished bus station. From a no-frills hot dog stand to New Nordic tasting menus, these are the essential Reykjavík dining experiences.

Price key per person:

$ = Less than 1500 ISK (less than $12 USD)
$$ = 1500 - 3700 ISK ($12 - 30 USD)
$$$ = 3700 - 6200 ISK ($30 - 50 USD)
$$$$ = More than 6200 (more than $50 USD)

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Keens Steakhouse, an Icon of Old New York, Is Removing Historic Racist Images from Its Walls

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Old newspaper clippings, prints, photographs, and playbills, including one that Abraham Lincoln was supposedly holding when he was shot, have long covered the restaurant — but now the racist ones are finally coming down

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Iowa State Fair: Everything 2020 Presidential Candidates Ate

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Eater sent two correspondents to America’s meatiest state fair to report on what Democratic presidential hopefuls ate

At the Iowa State Fair, everything comes on a stick — including politics. One of the nation’s largest and porkiest state fairs, Iowa’s annual agricultural exposition is also a storied presidential campaign stop during primary season. This year, the fair hosted over twenty candidates for the Democratic nomination vying for Iowa caucus-goers support through two tried-and-true methods: campaign speeches and fried foods. Follow the highlights of the corn dog campaign below.

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The 20 Essential Ottawa Restaurants

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Where to find adventurous French fare, delicious meats, and natural wines in Canada’s capital city

Canada’s capital city has long been maligned as stodgy, no fun, and filled with dull bureaucrats. Thankfully, that reputation is beginning to seem out of date. In recent years, the city’s creative industries have gained prominence, and the food scene in Ottawa and Gatineau, Ottawa’s twin city just across the river, has grown rapidly, thanks in part to those bureaucrats with money to spend on meals.

Now, visitors to Ottawa can find locavore eats at distinctly Canadian restaurants alongside natural wine bars and third-wave cafes. Although the city has boasted some big destination restaurants for nearly a decade, it’s the newer arrivals that make for essential Ottawa dining.

Resident Eater Montreal editor Tim Forster rounded up those restaurants, cafes, and bakeries that prove Ottawa has grown up into a great food city.

Looking for other dining tips in Ottawa? Check Eater Montreal’s maps of brunches and cheap eats in the city.

Price per person
$ = Less than 15 CAD (less than 11 USD)
$$ = 15- 25 CAD (11 - 19 USD)
$$$ = 25 - 45 CAD (19 - 33 USD)
$$$$ = More than 45 CAD (more than 33 USD)

Shawna Wagman contributed research and editing.

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Weight Watchers Debuts an App That Could Screw Up Your Kid’s Relationship With Food for Life

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Kurbo by WW is advertised as a health app for kids and teens, but body image experts warn that it could encourage harmful dieting and disordered eating

I went to my first Weight Watchers meeting around the age of 10. Like many fat girls my age, it was my initial foray into the world of dieting. In my particular group, I was the only young person and was surrounded by a crowd of adult women, all crying over their inability to drop the pounds. My experience with Weight Watchers fundamentally shifted the way I viewed food, setting me up for an adolescence filled with diet pills, disordered eating, and a truly fucked up relationship with food.

Now, Weight Watchers is trying to bring this experience to an entire new generation of fat kids, with slick tech to match. This week, the company (which has since rebranded to WW) launched Kurbo by WW, a new app that’s intended to help kids as young as 8 lose weight. According to Time, Kurbo is Weight Watchers’s second attempt at luring in kids and teens — last year, the company announced that it would offer its traditional weight-loss program, originally geared toward adults, for free to teens aged 13 to 17. Not surprisingly, that move sparked outrage in everyone from parents to nutritionists, worried that their children and patients would develop disordered eating habits and body image issues.

Kurbo isn’t that unlike the original Weight Watchers system, which assigned a specific number of “points” to food — two “SmartPoints” for a slice of bread, six for two tablespoons of peanut butter — and issued dieters a finite number of points that they could “spend” on food each day. That system eventually evolved into WW Freestyle, which allows for more than 200 foods (mostly vegetables and fruits) to be “ZeroPoint,” or “free.”

But Kurbo eschews points in favor of a “red light, green light” system developed at Stanford University. The system allows teens and tweens to eat “green light” foods like vegetables freely and “yellow light” foods like pasta in moderation. “Red light” foods like soda and candy should make kids “think about how to budget them in.” As with the points system, kids on Kurbo are allotted a specific number of red light foods each day, based on their height, weight, and weight-loss goals. Looking more closely, though, it’s easy to see that this system is pretty much identical to assigning foods point values, if slightly less confusing.

As someone who’s used the Weight Watchers app more than once, I downloaded Kurbo to see just how different it was from its parent company’s weight-loss program. The Kurbo app asked for my height, weight, and age, which I input as a 9-year-old whose weight would fall in the “obese” range according to the body mass index chart. I was then asked to choose a cheery fruit-or-vegetable avatar (I went with a pineapple) and instructed to select a goal from a list of options like “lose weight,” “make parents happy,” and “boost confidence.”

After filling out the questionnaire and watching a weird video about how Kurbo’s system works, the app immediately thrust me into the world of food tracking. Using a searchable database, I could input pizza or pineapple or cookies, and that food’s corresponding colored light would appear directly beside its name. Another screen showed how to measure portion sizes by hand — a fistful of rice or pasta, a cupped hand of chips — while an interactive game called “Red Raisins” encourages kids to identify “red” or “green” foods by sight. I was granted four servings of “red” foods a day, and when I told the app I’d binged on cookies and peanut-butter sandwiches, it told me that I should try some green foods, and adjusted the number of “reds” I was allowed to eat for the rest of the week. The second time I used the app, I signed up as a 5-foot-5-inch 13-year-old who weighs 90 pounds, a height and weight that put my fake kid squarely in the “underweight” portion of the body mass index chart. Kurbo still allowed me to sign up and set a goal to lose weight.

Because kids are not stupid, it won’t take them long to develop issues around foods that have been categorized as “red lights.“ “For any kid who’s been on a diet before or has experienced calorie counting, which many of them are taught in school, they’re going to be able to recognize that a piece of cake is probably going to have more calories than an apple,” says Chevese Turner, chief policy and strategy officer for the National Eating Disorders Association. This strategy is also largely counterproductive, and it won’t help kids lose weight, at least not in the long term. Research indicates that associating guilt with certain foods, like chocolate cake or french fries, makes it much more difficult to resist overeating.

Food tracking, or logging every bite of food that goes into your mouth, can have significant implications for people struggling with eating disorders, which are already on the rise among young people. Kurbo touts that its app does not focus on, or even really allow for, calorie counting, but that doesn’t mean that it can’t be misused by teens dealing with disordered eating patterns. “We worry about any dieting in a child,” Turner says. “We don’t have any evidence showing that there is a way to safely diet as a child, or an adult for that matter.”

In addition to categorizing “healthy” and “unhealthy” foods according to color, Kurbo also provides weekly video chats with its weight-loss coaches. Kurbo’s website provides brief bios on each of the nine coaches, many of whom have no formal education in nutrition. Some, like Brandon, have business degrees and a self-professed interest in HIIT (high-intensity interval training). Others hold unspecified certificates in “holistic nutrition,” Chinese medicine, and tourism management. The app claims that all coaches have been trained to recognize “signs of eating disorders and unhealthy weight loss,” but it’s unclear how exactly they’ll be able to do that.

This is not unlike my experience with many Weight Watchers meeting leaders, who often had extreme enthusiasm for weight loss and “health,” but weren’t necessarily qualified to give that advice. Weight Watchers hires leaders who aren’t nutritionists or experts in exercise, but have been “successful on our weight-loss plan.” Once they’re hired, these leaders are paid poorly and required to maintain their weight loss within two pounds for at least six weeks. And of course, if you gain the weight back, your job could be at risk — in 2002, Weight Watchers fired New Jersey meeting leader Abbe Favocci for gaining 20 pounds after she was diagnosed with colon cancer. “If it’s anything over 10 pounds, they terminate you,” Favocci told CBS News.

Perhaps the most depressing thing on Kurbo’s website is its success stories, which tout the weight loss of children as young as 8, complete with before-and-after photos of once-chubby kids who are now thin. Ten-year-old Robby, who allegedly lost 42 pounds on Kurbo, says that the plan helped him learn that healthy foods were more satiating. Juliana, a 12-year-old, shares that she was too nervous to talk to her coach at first. These success stories are, of course, couched with a warning that Juliana’s and Robby’s results are kind of a fluke. “Results not typical,” the tiny disclaimer reads at the bottom of the page. “Weight loss and/or BMI reduction will vary by age, weight, and height.”

Inside the app, the success stories are told much more in-depth, and it’s just as sad. In one, a girl named Emilie laments not being able to find “trendy clothes and skinny jeans” in her size before losing 25 pounds, and sets her goal so that she can wear a bikini at summer parties. “When the family ate meals at Red Robin, Emilie would eat all the fries on her plate,” the story reads. “Now, she eats one-fourth of them.” The awful combination of food moralizing and body shaming in Emilie’s story is exactly why young girls obsess about how many fries are okay to eat and how thin their bodies need to be in order to wear a bikini.

These “before-and-after” stories and photos make it abundantly clear to fat kids and teens that there is something wrong with their bodies, and that thinness is the ideal standard that Kurbo is designed to promote. In all of the photos on Kurbo’s website, the success story kids are thinner than they were before starting the program, and that’s really all Weight Watchers needs you to know. As much as they prattle on about wellness and health, this is a company that has made billions of dollars hawking the promise of thinness. Kurbo may offer activity tracking, but its primary focus is food intake. “Many diet companies are moving toward using ‘health and wellness’ as their keywords,” Turner says. “But at the end of the day, this is still a diet.”

Kurbo is yet another tool in the arsenal for parents who are desperately seeking weight-loss answers for their children, and it’s really hard to blame them. We know that fat kids are more likely to be bullied, have fewer friends, and face discrimination from medical providers. Parents want to protect their children from fatphobia by encouraging them to lose weight, but it’s more likely that they’ll end up in the vicious cycle of crash dieting. According to the Cleveland Clinic, girls who begin dieting at an early age are more likely to experience “eating disorders, alcohol problems, or obesity” later in life.

Before signing up for the $69/month coaching sessions, Kurbo requires parents to certify that their children do not “self induce vomiting, use diuretics or laxatives for weight loss, [or] have a diagnosed eating disorder,” but that cover-your-ass sentence doesn’t exactly stop parents who are hell-bent on their children losing weight from just checking the box. It certainly doesn’t help kids at higher weights, whose eating disorders are much more likely to go undetected. “You can have anorexia, bulimia, or binge-eating disorder and still be in a higher-weight body,” Turner says. “There are plenty of parents who may sign their child up for this app because they’re in a higher-weight body, when in fact they have an eating disorder.”

What may ultimately be the most effective in helping kids develop healthy eating habits is parents modeling positive behavior, not putting them on diets. “Parents have to do what they can to create a normal relationship with food, one that doesn’t come with all of this baggage of moralization and ‘good’ versus ‘bad,’” Turner says. “Everything’s about modeling, and if we can model what we want to see in our children, if we have the privilege to do that, then that’s probably the best way to go.”

It’s also impossible to not see the introduction of Kurbo as a cynical play for the future by a company that’s increasingly a relic. Weight Watchers has reported declining membership for the past year, and expects that trend to continue. Diets like keto and paleo, which don’t require a $40/month online membership or in-person meetings, are much more accessible and don’t carry the same stigma of a program like Weight Watchers or NutriSystem. But if Weight Watchers can introduce its specific brand of dieting to kids, who are exposed to a constant stream of fatphobia in media and everywhere else, then it’s got a whole new customer stream. More than that, as Turner notes, the company holds a massive database of the millions of adults that have used the Weight Watchers program to try to lose weight, and can use that database to market Kurbo to the children of chronic dieters.

Over the years, Weight Watchers has rebranded its plans countless times, and Kurbo is just the latest iteration. But the company’s message will always be clear: Stop being fat. That’s a really dangerous message to send to fat children, who are already so vulnerable. Even if Kurbo encourages kids to move their bodies more and develop a love for exercise, its primary focus is on restricting specific types of food and rewarding the consumption of others, which is little more than a way to set up kids for a life of dieting and disappointment. As a 31-year-old who still can’t look at steamed broccoli without gagging, I know the long-term consequences of this type of food moralizing intimately.

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White Claw may be law, But Four Loko is ANARCHY

We’ve spent the summer adorably sipping on low ABV hard seltzers that appeal to all, praising ourselves for staying “healthy” while we get slowly drunk by the pool. But last night, Four Loko, the makers of what was essentially alcoholic Power Thirst, announced that it does not give a fuck about your quest to pace yourself while day drinking, tweeting, “Hard seltzers ran so we could fly,” with a photo of their new product, Four Loko Seltzer Sour With a Hint of Blue Razz.

We have no idea what that combination of words means. Say “Four Loko Seltzer Sour With a Hint of Blue Razz” three times and it’s sure to invoke the ghost of a frat boy named Kyle who calls you a pussy and tries to piss ectoplasm into your sink. Four Loko describes the product as the “hardest seltzer in the universe,” and at a whopping 14 percent ABV, they’re probably right. The original formula of Four Loko contained malt liquor, caffeine, guarana, and taurine, and caused hospitalizations at colleges around the country. Chuck Schumer called the drink a plague, and eventually Four Loko changed the formula to remove the uppers.

Hard seltzer has taken off this summer as “wellness” continues to creep into the alcohol market. As Eater’s own Amy McCarthy wrote, “The 2019 bro hasn’t successfully bucked patriarchal values, but he has managed to spruce them up with face masks, potentially disordered eating, and an open and honest affection for spiked seltzer.” And given that seltzer is one of the preferred beverages of both the sober and “sober curious,” squint and drinking hard seltzer almost feels like not drinking at all.

But Four Loko Seltzer sits at the corner of wellness and apocalypse—yes, avoid your carbs and added sugars, but don’t let that keep you from getting so blotto that you get into a fistfight with a pool floatie that looked at you weird before texting your ex “yu stil in townn? my bbeef hottt ;-&.” Nihilism makes sense in this day and age. This is not about enjoyment. This is death drive.

If White Claw is the law, Four Loko Seltzer Sour With a Hint of Blue Razz is anarchy. TASTE THE CHAOS.

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I’m Out, Man: ‘Shark Tank’ Judge Kevin O’Leary Estimates He Spends $1K a Day on Food

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Popeyes Launches Fried Chicken Sandwich by Teaming Up With Restaurant That Ripped Them Off

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The 17 Essential Seville Restaurants

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From a 17th-century tapas bar to superb coffee roasters, here’s where to eat

With 300 days of sunshine a year, Seville has developed a reputation in Spain for its buzzing social scene. On any given Tuesday, you’ll find tons of callejeros, literally “street people,” out and about, sipping ice-cold beers, throwing back modestly priced tapas, and carrying on until the wee hours of the morning. To cater to all these thirsty and hungry revelers, Seville offers more bars and restaurants than any reasonable person could ever experience in one trip.

As the capital of the southern Andalusia region, Seville has acted for centuries as a crossroads for peoples from Europe, North Africa, and Asia. Moorish rule during the Middle Ages had a particularly outsized influence on the city’s architecture and culture. These influences are clear today around town and at Seville’s historic, centuries-old establishments, distinguishing the city from Spain’s other culinary capitals.

To get a grip on the city’s unique food and eating culture, we tapped Megan Lloyd, a journalist, culinary guide, and cook based in town.

Here, now, a map to Seville’s absolutely essential restaurants.

The New Egg Mascot on ‘The Masked Singer’ Brings Up a Lot of Questions, Few of Them Good

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Why is an egg wearing an egg?

The Masked Singer is a competition show on Fox where notable performers don mascot costumes and perform for a panel of judges — Crazy Rich Asians’ Ken Jeong, noted anti-vaxxer Jenny McCarthy, noted anti-abortion advocate Nicole Scherzinger, and noted “I know you want it” sayer Robin Thicke — who then attempt to guess who it is with an inspiring though misguided optimism. “Lady Gaga!” they yell, only to discover the masked lion is Rumer Willis; “Zac Efron or Hugh Jackman,” they cry at a man in a peacock costume that turns out to be Donny Osmond; the unicorn, they suggest could be Kim Kardashian, but she’s not because she’s Tori Spelling.

The series, hosted by Nick Cannon, is somehow very successful and will soon return for a second season with all new mascots including...

This egg.

What’s its deal? No, I don’t mean who is the celebrity hiding inside the egg because the answer could be anyone from Drake (actually Danny Bonaduce) to Taylor Swift (Julie from The Real World: New Orleans). I want to know the deal with the actual egg man, who seemingly has an egg for a head and also a fried egg for a hat. Like a painting of a pig pouring barbecue sauce on his belly to advertise a smoke house, this is not right.

Usually, I wouldn’t think twice about a man with an egg head, but we’re talking about an egg that’s wearing a dead egg on the top of his goddamn dome and we’re all supposed to pretend like it’s normal? Sorry, like a painting of a pig pouring barbecue sauce on his belly to advertise a smoke house, that’s not right.

Who is the fried egg to the egg man? His brother? A stranger? Does it matter? And why is his face so frozen in permanent glee, as if rejoicing in his crime, daring us to care, to speak up? Could any other humanoid mascot get away with this? It’s gory and garish — imagine me wearing a fried PERSON a-top my head! — so I’d like to think no, but society continues to disappoint me.

Hopefully, if the grinning and gruesome egg man insists upon sporting this violent talisman on air, the judges, Cannon, and Fox will all condemn it, perhaps even pelting Egg Man with his own kind, to see how funny he finds egg murder then. Or maybe he’ll explain himself, revealing a larger performance art piece on a culture that cannibalizes itself.

Until then, I ask: ‘tha fuck is up with this egg?

Fun People Order Pancakes: What Your Diner Order Says About You

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Join Eater Young Guns for Three New York Pop-Ups This Summer

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More Bizarre Restaurant Instagram Accounts, Please

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Failure Is a Privilege

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A Pocky T-Shirt, a Charming Tomato Dish, and More Things to Buy This Week

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Even Subway’s Meatball Marinara Subs Are Going Meatless

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Active-Shooter Training Could Be a Reality for More Fast-Food Workers

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What’s the Difference Between Pickling, Brining, Marinating, and Curing?

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Yelp Funnels Users’ Calls Through Grubhub to Help Collect Widely Criticized Referral Fees From Restaurants

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Shake Shack Jumps Into Delivery Wars With Nationwide Grubhub Partnership

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The Wife Cake Is a Yuen Long Specialty — and a Newly Emerged Symbol of Resistance

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The Baker’s Apprentice

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Ben and Jerry Hope You’ll Feel the Bern With a Limited-Edition Ice Cream for Bernie Sanders

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McDonald’s Replaced Plastic Straws With Non-Recyclable Paper Straws in the U.K.

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How Midsommar’s Food Stylist Created the Heaving, Vibrant Feast That Will Haunt Your Dreams

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The New ‘Great British Bake Off’ Trailer Is a Chamomile-Scented Acid Trip

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Your Environmentally Friendly Lunch Bowl Is Actually Full of Non-Biodegradable Chemicals

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‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ Is the Biggest TV Disappointment of the Summer

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My First F-Up: Turns Out Heat and Cleaning Chemicals Are a Dangerous Mix

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Skittles’s ‘Rotten Zombie’-Flavored Halloween Candy Is Punishment for Our Sins

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The End of Will Guidara and Daniel Humm’s Eleven Madison Park Reign

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The duo’s eight-year business partnership comes to an end later this summer

Restaurateurs Will Guidara and Daniel Humm plan to end their eight-year business partnership later this summer.

Together, the duo has an empire of restaurants and bars spanning multiple cities — including their best-known restaurant, Michelin-starred (and “World’s Best” restaurant winner) Eleven Madison Park in New York, as well as branches of the NoMad in New York, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas; multiple NoMad Bars; pop-ups in Aspen and the Hamptons; the fast-casual Made Nice restaurant; and a couple yet-to-open places.

Eater NY reports that there are are no plans to cease operations in any of the open or in-the-works restaurants; they are stepping away from a Lower East Side events space, but that appears to be unrelated to the break up.

When the front-of-house star and chef call it quits, they’ll be breaking up one of the most impactful partnerships in modern restaurant history. Follow along:

U.K. Prison Program Gives Inmates Restaurant Training at ‘The Clink’

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Experience at one of the Clink’s four locations is shown to lower reoffending rates

At Burger King, Your Meat-Free Burger Might Come With a Coating of Real Meat Juice

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This Simple Silicone Mat Takes the Stress Out of Pie Baking

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The Future of Food Delivery Just Got Flatter

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Now Dean & DeLuca Is Defaulting on Employee Salaries, Laid-Off Workers Say

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Fruits! They’re Cute!

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Hooters Wants to Bring Down Your Cocktail Party With Its Own Line of Spirits

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Dudes Love White Claw, So Maybe the Idea of ‘Bitch Beer’ Can Finally Die

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Watch Vivian Howard Dig Deep Into Southern Cuisine in the ‘South by Somewhere’ Trailer

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Beef on Weck Is Buffalo’s Best Contribution to the Culinary World

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The Ancient Baths Are Just About the Only Part of Rome Where You Won’t Find a McDonald’s

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