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The Best Products for Channeling Your Inner Martha

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There’s more noise than ever on the homemaking side of social media, but there is still only one Martha Stewart. My own parasocial relationship with Stewart began in October of 2005, in the pages of a particularly memorable, dry ice-filled Martha Stewart Living Halloween issue.

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The History of Tipping in Restaurants: The Complicated Past, Present, and Future

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Thomas Keller nixed tipping at Per Se in 2005. Customers denounce “tipping screens” on social media, saying that it's too much. Even since restaurants have gone back and forth between tipping and no-tipping. Alice Waters implemented a service charge at Chez Panisse as early as the 1980s. The tipping debate, however, rages on.

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Reinventing a Global Beverage Brand: Chatime Evolves in a Fast-Growing Market

Restaurant Business

Founded in Taiwan in 2005, Chatime was one of the first brands to take the bubble tea concept international. It garnered considerable attention on traditional and social media, highlighting how this pioneering brand continues to innovate and attract new consumers as it evolves.

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The Great Birria Boom

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How two Mexican-American birrieros made the beloved dish a sensation in America In 2005, two Mexican-American teenagers from LA met at the fair in Coatzingo, Puebla, during Semana Santa, or Holy Week, a time when countless Mexican-American families head back to their family’s hometowns all over Mexico to visit relatives.

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That KitchenAid Isn’t Just Blue

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Our kitchens are stages, whether it’s because they’re open to the rest of the home, or endlessly documented on social media. Other home design brands like Sherwin-Williams and Valspar followed with “color of the year” declarations; Benjamin Moore started releasing its own color of the year in 2005.

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Does Free Food (and Other Election Festivities) Increase Voter Turnout?

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An 1846 painting by George Caleb Bingham shows the social activity that voting used to be, drinks and all. Up until the late 19th century, elections were seen as a big social activity : Voters came to enjoy “free-flowing whisky,” entertainment, and the kind of exposure promised by an event in which “you’re there to be seen,” says Donald P.

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Why Does ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ Still Celebrate Toxic Chef Culture?

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The reality show’s peek inside toxic kitchens might have been fresh when it premiered in 2005. We form attachments, follow them on social media, and get the feeling of justice when someone who performs well is given a prize — even if it’s only a job at Gordon Ramsay’s Pub & Grill in Atlantic City.

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