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From the Editor: Everything you missed in food news last week

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Can’t live with them, can’t survive without them

This post originally appeared on June 12, 2021 in Amanda Kludt’s newsletter “From the Editor,” a roundup of the most vital news and stories in the food world each week. Read the archives and subscribe now. I don’t know what it’s like right now where you are. Some regions have, famously, been open for months. Some areas outside the U.S. are still in various stages of lockdown. But in New York City, we’re experiencing an almost unbelievably wonderful re-emergence. Indoor dining is back, sure, but…

From the Editor: Everything you missed in food news last week

George Chen, owner of 30,000-square-foot China Live, visits Eater’s Digest

This post originally appeared on May 1, 2021 in Amanda Kludt’s newsletter “From the Editor,” a roundup of the most vital news and stories in the food world each week. Read the archives and subscribe now. In February, I dined in the quiet backyard of a trendy Mexican restaurant in Brooklyn with a friend I hadn’t seen in awhile. We caught up on each other’s lives, on work, on post-pandemic vacation dreams. And we gossiped. About someone in particular. At length. Of course that person was sitting a…

Saru Jayamaran says workers are “being asked to do so much more for so much less”

This post originally appeared on April 24, 2021 in Amanda Kludt’s newsletter “From the Editor,” a roundup of the most vital news and stories in the food world each week. Read the archives and subscribe now. Last week the New York Times podcast The Daily published an episode all about the struggles of pandemic parenting, including recordings from the parenting section’s open phone line where they asked readers to share what it’s really been like to raise children over this last year. It’s ... a l…

Miami journalist Olee Fowler and restaurateur Simon Kim talk Miami’s winter “season on steroids” on the Eater’s Digest podcast

This post originally appeared on April 3, 2021 in Amanda Kludt’s newsletter “From the Editor,” a roundup of the most vital news and stories in the food world each week. Read the archives and subscribe now. Consumption is never a cure for systemic problems. Buying a cake as a means to donate to a charity fighting for equity or against racism cannot alone solve the deep challenges we face nor can it get you off the hook for doing necessary personal work. (Related: Have you tried bystander training…

From the Editor: Everything you missed in food news last week

From the Editor: Everything you missed in food news last week

Since the start of the pandemic, restaurant owners, workers, and fans have been calling for a bailout, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is here to report help is finally on the way. “It was a long, hard road, but we got there. We got there,” he says. Schumer relayed on the Eater’s Digest podcast this week that the $28.6 billion carve-out in the new $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan will be replenished should it run out. The program allows for grants — not loans — for full 2020 lo…

From the Editor: Everything you missed in food news last week