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How Restaurant Dessert Menus Shaped Our Sweet Tooth

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Since Eater was founded in 2005, the world of restaurant desserts has changed dramatically, turning into a venue for wild experimentation. The composed little plate (CLP for short) was a staple of the dessert menus of the 2010s, a departure from the stodgy chocolate cakes and boring tiramisu at the upscale dining destinations of the ’90s.

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Stone Barns Claims It’s Fixing Agriculture. Former Employees Say the Farm Was Plagued by Dysfunction.

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Over his first 10 years at Stone Barns, he built a flourishing, 10-acre organic vegetable farm using compost and rotational planting to feed the soil. Sheep grazing in a field at Stone Barns in 2005. Stan Honda/AFP via Getty Images. Meghan McCarron is Eater’s senior correspondent. Kailey Whitman is an illustrator and designer.