your friend Helen
@newyorker food correspondent (not a restaurant critic!) | aesthete/asshat | she/her/hers | hi @ helenlikesyou .com
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Exclusive: Get a glimpse into Anthony Bourdain's legacy in 'The Last Interview' book excerpt
The following is the introduction to Anthony Bourdain: The Last Interview and Other Conversations, written by New Yorker writer Helen Rosner, which details…
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your friend Helen
My introduction for ANTHONY BOURDAIN: THE LAST INTERVIEW has been excerpted on @ew. Some raw shit in here, friends — surreal to see it in a place where other people can see it too.
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Jeffrey Epstein Commits Suicide at Manhattan Jail
Mr. Epstein, the financier indicted on sex trafficking charges last month, hung himself and his body was found this morning.
May I Recommend That You Grow Your Own Corn
All a homegrown stalk of corn asks of you is water, sunlight, and time.
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your friend Helen
Listen: everyone should be growing their own backyard (or patio, or fire-escape) corn. Grow some corn, you kings!!!! It's so much easier than tomatoes!!!
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Humanity’s Eternal Quest for a Better Way of Peeling Garlic
A new method, made viral this week thanks to a video posted on Twitter, showed a seemingly effortless stab-and-twist-and-pull technique.
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your friend Helen
I spent the morning stabbing at garlic with a variety of knives and I kind of got it to work???
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Former 42 Grams Chef Seeks Redemption With Stone Flower — But Will Bucktown Diners Support Someone Who Attacked His Ex-Wife?
Once-celebrated chef Jacob Bickelhaupt says he's ready to move on with his life after a high-profile downfall — but his ex says he hasn't owned up to his abuse.
Going Under at the Playboy Club
It's been a half-century since Gloria Steinem exposed the outrageous working conditions at Hugh Hefner's club. Playboy has changed—but have we?
Save Weeksville & Save Brooklyn's Black History
Weeksville Heritage Center needs you, and we need you now. What We Do We are a unique historic house museum located in Crown Heights and our work preserves the history of one of the largest free black communities in pre-Civil War...
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your friend Helen
The Weeksville Heritage Center is one of the brightest gems in Brooklyn — it's also wildly underappreciated, and now in grave danger of closing. I don't ask a lot of y'all but this place is important to me & to my neighborhood. Please give, if you can
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Jack Dorsey Is Gwyneth Paltrow for Silicon Valley
The Twitter chief executive is tech’s foremost manfluencer, guiding his followers toward optimum cognitive performance. Or, at least, hunger.
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your friend Helen
A while back I asked a friend (a friend who would know the answer) "So, like, what's the deal with Jack?" and they said, "Pretty much it's that he thinks he's super smart, but he's actually kinda dim."
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Tartine's Vinny Eng was just named sommelier of the year. Why he's leaving it all, for a new start in politics
<p>Vinny Eng would seem to have a good thing going. But Eng is stepping away from all of it — from Tartine, from restaurants, from wine. This week he starts a new role as organizing director for Suzy Loftus’ campaign for San Francisco district...
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your friend Helen
We don’t deserve the greatness that is @vinnyeng, the magnificent Bay Area somm & amazing human being who’s leaving the restaurant biz to get into (serious, super important, local) politics
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The Passionate, Progressive Politics of Julia Child
The public Julia Child—Julia Child the culinary titan—looms so large that she often eclipses the person who existed outside the kitchen. A new collection of interviews captures another side of her.
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your friend Helen
“Few politicians will take the risk of publicly supporting either contraception or abortion—and who is for abortion anyway? We are concerned with freedom of choice.” — Julia Child
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The Unbearable Sameness of Cities
What my journey across the United States taught me about indie cafés and Ikea lights.
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your friend Helen
@mattyglesias Instagram ramen and 3rd wave coffee etc are def homogenous in certain white-millennial-yuppie areas of cities (like this story lays out)
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You Know the Lorena Bobbitt Story. But Not All of It.
In the 1990s, she was the topic of tabloid headlines and comedy skits. Now, as a documentary series takes on the story, she opens up about how that one night changed her life.
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your friend Helen
I cannot even begin to express how much I’ve been waiting for this major reconsideration of who the real villain was all along
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The Pure American Banality of Donald Trump’s Fast-Food Buffet
There may be something pure in Trump’s decision to fill a gilded hall with as many fried and griddled patties as money can buy, the teetering towers a quantifiable testament to his Presidential power.
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your friend Helen
For the record I filed with “Filets-o-Fish” and copy editor extraordinaire @lleibowitzz set me straight: McDonald’s corporate dictates that the plural style is “Filet-o-Fishes”
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Delicious Doesn’t Always Mean Pretty
Introducing a one-pan chicken dinner designed for flavor, not hashtags.
Bad sex award 2018: the contenders in quotes
Extravagant metaphors are indecently exposed in the shortlist for the Literary Review’s annual showcase of ‘outstandingly bad’ erotic writing
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your friend Helen
What did we ever do to deserve so many men writing so phenomenally horribly about sex theguardian.com/books/2018/nov… pic.twitter.com/X3Rdcjldcp
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Ricky Jay’s Magical Secrets
Mark Singer sits down with the magician Ricky Jay, whose illusions flout reality, and who rejects the idea that magic is a suitable entertainment for children.
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your friend Helen
This 1993 profile of Ricky Jay by Mark Singer is probably my all-time favorite piece of writing. It made me want to do what I do. I re-read it constantly. It fully breaks my heart every time. RIP Ricky Jay, the master.
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your friend Helen
Any day that I get to share this, the greatest profile ever written, with a new person who hasn't read it before, is a beautiful day
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your friend Helen
Hi hello, going to docs.new or doc.new directly opens a ****brand-new blank google doc****, this is exploding my brain right now, I am so excited to share it with anyone who doesn't already know
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your friend Helen
Hi hello, going to docs.new or doc.new directly opens a ****brand-new blank google doc****, this is exploding my brain right now, I am so excited to share it with anyone who doesn't already know
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