Helen R.
New Yorker in a number of senses | trying vainly 2 stick 2 food | she/her
Last synced from Twitter 1370d ago
The Uncertain Promises of Indoor Dining in New York City
The New Yorker 100d 2 tweets
Restaurants—and customers—take another teetering step on the city’s jagged path to recovery.
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Helen R. For , I wrote about the fallacies of NYC's return to indoor dining, and the lies we've been convinced to tell ourselves 100d
Highlights from a “Princess Bride” Virtual Live Read
The New Yorker 128d 1 tweets
On Sunday night, actors from the 1987 film came together via Webcam for a live-streamed reading of the script, as a fund-raiser for the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.
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Helen R. Typed so much about the Princess Bride that I think I gave myself carpal tunnel, and then I cut 2000 words because it was actually insane. Here’s what’s left! 128d
Jim Franks doesn’t bake bread
Mike Sula - Chicago Reader 138d 1 tweets
He lets his whole grain, naturally leavened, slavishly local dough stand up for itself.
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Helen R. please god give me the confidence of a 32-year-old white man sincerely claiming on the record that he’s the only person baking 100% einkorn bread within 2000 miles of Chicago 138d
A New Orleans Chef Navigates Disaster
The New Yorker 146d 3 tweets
Nina Compton’s adopted city knows how to ride out a storm. The coronavirus pandemic plays by different rules.
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Helen R. Here: I wrote you a big, deep, sprawling story about a remarkable person, in a special city, during extraordinary times 146d
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Helen R. I worked my ass off on this gigantic sweeping profile of a person and a time and a place so yes sorry I’m still going to share it nearly a week later 140d
Write Your "Leaving New York" Essay With Our Handy Chart - Electric Literature
Electric Literature 194d 7 tweets
Your post-Big Apple future—and the inevitable masterpiece of navel-gazing you'll write about it—are hidden in the letters of your name
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Helen R. New York taught me imagination and how to cry in public, but now that I have been radicalized, it’s time to move to Los Angeles and farm goats 194d
Megachurch pastor John Ortberg kept a family member’s attraction to children secret. Then his son blew the whistle.
Bob Smietana - Religion News Service 199d 10 tweets
(RNS) — The Rev. John Ortberg’s son reportedly confessed he was attracted to children. The megachurch pastor kept that admission secret while his son continued working with kids.
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Helen R. The extraordinary bravery of speaking out against family, church, and power 198d
Using apples as metaphor to explain corruption within a group
KCRW 221d 1 tweets
Food Correspondent Helen Rosner reads her recent piece for, “The New Yorker,”  in which she explains apple rot and disease, while invoking the old adage of a few bad apples spoiling the bunch.
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Helen R. Listen to me reading my cute lil’ essay How Apples Go Bad our loud on — thanks to the marvelous for having me 221d
How Apples Go Bad
The New Yorker 226d 14 tweets
The closer the fruit is to rot, the more rot it spreads.
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Helen R. I wrote five short paragraphs about apples 226d
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Helen R. A little more detail 226d
Blow Up the Restaurant Industry and Start Over
Xena WorrierPrincess - The New Republic 245d 5 tweets
A system that relies on exploitation isn’t one that should survive the pandemic. There’s a better way to feed people and care for workers.
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Helen R. Further reading: this great + broad + deep TNR piece from 243d
The Case for Letting the Restaurant Industry Die
The New Yorker 244d 9 tweets
Tunde Wey, the New Orleans-based activist-artist and cook, describes his radical vision of a more equitable culinary world.
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Helen R. Am I an idoit? Click and decide 4 urself! 244d
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Helen R. “Who can we expect to win, who can we expect to lose? Spoiler: it’s the same people who win, the same people who lose.” I talked to Tunde Wey, and it’s really really worth a read. 244d
Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage
Themargins.substack.com 248d 37 tweets
There is such a thing as a free lunch
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Helen R. This is amazing and you should read it 248d
Even If You're Trying To Avoid Grubhub By Calling Your Favorite Restaurant Directly, Grubhub Could Still Be Charging It A Fee
Venessa Wong - BuzzFeed News 251d 12 tweets
“If a customer calls to place a coffee order, we’re paying a $6.42 fee — for a coffee.”
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Helen R. Love seeing the great deep diving on GrubHub’s predatory practice of hijacking restaurants’ phone numbers and charging them for incoming calls 250d
What It Will Take for Restaurants to Survive
The New Yorker 259d 2 tweets
“My concern isn’t actually getting open,” the chef and TV personality Tom Colicchio says. “My concern is, once you’re open, how do you last for a year?”
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Helen R. I had the great pleasure of talking with , one of the chefs fighting on the front lines to save America’s restaurants and their 11 million workers, about what—if anything—can get us through this 259d
Helen, Help Me: Is a Ramp Grown on My Windowsill Still a Ramp?
The New Yorker 264d 2 tweets
Advice from our food correspondent on cooking for one, uses of rib-eyes, and the logical conundrum of cultivating a wild plant.
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Helen R. This is my favorite HHM yet. Maybe my favorite thing I’ve ever gotten to write. I’m pretty sure you can guess why. 264d
Samin Nosrat Wants Us to Make Lasagna Together
Nytimes.com 268d 3 tweets
The “Salt Fat Acid Heat” authorhas long gathered people around a table.But what will happen when the festivities move to that sometimes-terrible place, the internet?
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Helen R. . wants all of us to make lasagna on Sunday so I’m absolutely gonna make a lasagna on Sunday 268d
Amazon-owned Whole Foods is quietly tracking its employees with a heat map tool that ranks which stores are most at risk of unionizing
Hayley Peterson - Business Insider 276d 20 tweets
Stores' risk scores are based on more than two dozen metrics, including racial diversity, employee turnover, and "tipline" calls.
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Helen R. “Whole Foods tracks unionization risk with heat map”——holy shiiiiiiit 275d
Helen, Help Me: How Will I Know It’s Time to Eat the Emergency Beans?
The New Yorker 282d 2 tweets
Learn how to embrace canned sardines and anchovies, how to expand your spice horizons, and when to start raiding the freezer—or not.
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Helen R. I love love love the questions you wonderful folks sent in for round two of Helen Help Me! (Even if I did let myself get a little bleak by the end.) 282d
Pick Up the Damn Phone, and Other Thoughts on Ordering Restaurant Delivery
The New Yorker 290d 3 tweets
Ordering in food during the coronavirus pandemic is an exquisite luxury. It’s also an ethical and practical minefield.
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Helen R. Is it better to support a restaurant through a predatory intermediary than to not support them at all? I don’t know, I don’t know. 290d
They’re the Last Couple in Paradise. Eventually, It May Bankrupt Them.
Nytimes.com 291d 43 tweets
Surrounded by a fleet of staff, who are also stranded, one couple is trapped in an eternal honeymoon in the Maldives.
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Helen R. God I wish this were a haunting allegorical novel and not reality 291d
Helen, Help Me: Advice on Quarantine Cooking and Other Quandaries
The New Yorker 301d 1 tweets
Learn how to establish kitchen equity among roommates, and make a potato soup that doesn’t fill you with a soul-deadening sense of boredom.
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Helen R. Well, I have an advice column now! This week: baking bread, roommate troubles, and the only acceptable conditions in which one should eat potato soup 301d