your friend Helen
@newyorker food correspondent (not a restaurant critic!) | aesthete/asshat | she/her/hers | hi @ helenlikesyou .com
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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.
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your friend Helen
This story about an abusive Chicago chef's comeback attempt is VERY good
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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
42d
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
78d
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)
128d
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
139d
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”
154d
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
199d
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.
205d
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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
224d
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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
224d
Gabrielle Hamilton, April Bloomfield, and the Problem with Leaving Women to Clean Up the Mess
In the wake of sexual-misconduct scandals, restaurants like the Spotted Pig have adopted a strategy that is equal parts performative gesture and survival tactic: throw a woman out in front of the business.
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your friend Helen
Morning! I wrote about how women seem so often to get shoved out in front of disgraced businesses, like human shields for reckless men
243d
One Year of #MeToo: A Modest Proposal to Help Combat Sexual Harassment in the Restaurant Industry
Those in the industry know that reforming the culture will have to happen at a grassroots level, by training a new generation of managers and cooks within a more inclusive status quo, and empowering workers to speak up.
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your friend Helen
The more I’ve read the literature and listened to ideas and talked to culinary workers and management, the more I don’t understand why more restaurants aren’t doing the simple, powerful act of displaying explicit anti-sexual-harassment posters newyorker.com/culture/annals… pic.twitter.com/UeKWkE5Zn7
251d
Tylenol Fights Headaches…and Existential Angst?
Existential angst and physical pain may both be located in the same part of the brain; Tylenol may be able to help with both.
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your friend Helen
Now feels like a good time to remind everyone that Tylenol has actually, seriously, for realsies, been clinically proven to reduce feelings of existential angst and overwhelmed paralysis at the futility of existence
260d
Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong
For decades, the medical community has ignored mountains of evidence to wage a cruel and futile war on fat people, poisoning public perception and ruining millions of lives. It's time for a new paradigm.
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your friend Helen
"I have never written a story where so many of my sources cried during interviews,...double- and triple-checked that I would not reveal their names, ...shook with anger describing their interactions with doctors and strangers and their own families."
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