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How Restaurant Dessert Menus Shaped Our Sweet Tooth

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2008: Cereal Milk launches an empire Christina Tosi invented or popularized a number of household-name desserts — Compost Cookies, Crack Pie ( now Milk Bar Pie ), naked cakes — but her Cereal Milk, which she initially developed at Wylie Dufresne’s wd~50, reshaped the dessert world. And it reveals what we consider to be a treat at all.

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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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Blue Hill at Stone Barns’ alluring story — that a fine dining restaurant could be a model for changing the world — seduced diners, would-be employees, and thought leaders alike. Numerous sources asked to be anonymous, fearful of the enormous reach and influence of Dan Barber. This story contains a detailed account of a sexual assault.

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Orange Is the New Yolk

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On how the so-called farm egg and its yolk became unlikely fetish objects An egg yolk is precious; a hundred are terrifying. The wet yolks cluster densely as if just emancipated from a sac, the sort of potential life form that portends doom in a sci-fi movie: When all of these hatch, we’re f *d. six of them blue and six of them brown.

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MRM People & Places: Game On at Walk-On’s and Gingerbread Houses for Humanity

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The brand recently launched its philanthropic arm – aptly named the Game On Foundation – to support youth sports facilities in the communities it serves. In its debut year, Walk-On’s aims to raise $100,000 for the Foundation in an effort to provide young athletes with the resources they need for a prospering future.

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

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Because of the pervasive influence of the Rockefeller family and Stone Barns in the relatively small world of sustainable agriculture, a number of people who spoke for this story did not wish to be identified. We really are helping the restaurant and farm staff try to capture the cow.”