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A Mexico City Mayor Tried to Erase Street Food Art. The Community Is Fighting Back.

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The program, launched last April by district mayor Sandra Cuevas, establishes operational guidelines to police the appearance of street vendors, including maintaining clean work spaces, staying within a designated area, avoiding litter, adopting a small urban green space to garden, and, critically, displaying the official logo of Cuauhtémoc.

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One-Horse Town

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Ever since her husband, Rudy, died in 2004, dropping Monowi’s population by half, Eiler has been something of an international celebrity. Kieran Dahl is a freelance writer covering travel, culture, design, and technology. That is to say: Just one person lives in Monowi, the only incorporated, government-run town in the U.S.

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Blue Hill at Stone Barns Tells a Beautiful Story. Former Employees Say It’s Too Good to Be True.

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The Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, a nonprofit regenerative farm and educational center, opened in 2004 on the site of a former dairy farm. A former sous chef who worked at Blue Hill from 2014 to 2017 says the version of the compost oven featured in Barber’s 2020 Instagram video was the most promising design.

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The Boundary Pusher

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One of an emerging generation of culture hounds who took food seriously as a badge of cool, Meehan started his career working for Bittman, who helped him land a gig writing the New York Times ’s $25 and Under column in 2004, a plum position for an emerging food writer. Then, she says, Meehan seemed to catch himself and back away.