Apr 7
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Starbucks hot cups are deceptive: although they look like they’re made of innocent, recyclable paper, they’re…
Apr 6
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My freezer has become a repository of frozen food from Trader Joe’s, half-eaten pints of ice cream, bags of Costco…
Apr 5
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My parents bought a dining room table sometime in the ’80s. They put it in the part of the house designated as the…
Apr 5
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Welcome to Gamer Week, in which The Takeout will be celebrating the edible side of video games all week long.
Apr 2
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Why is food produced by some cooks (usually grandmothers) so much better than the exact same food—down to the…
Apr 2
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In December of 2015, the Rabbinical Assembly, an international council of Conservative rabbis, had a meeting and…
Apr 1
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Do you know the word “bagel”? Do you know the word “schmear”? Congratulations! You know two words of Yiddish! You…
Mar 31
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For some reason, I thought the canon of pasta shapes was fixed and eternal. Spaghetti, linguine, cavatappi, penne,…
Mar 30
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Midwestern Pet Foods has issued a massive recall of 140 lots of pet foods across five different brands after a…
Mar 30
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During a spring training game at Diablo Stadium in Tempe, Arizona, last week, Joe Ayala was just chilling with his…
Mar 29
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The worst part about testing positive from COVID-19, aside from, you know, having COVID, is having to tell everyone…
Mar 26
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Like many a literary-minded girl with depressive tendencies, I had my Sylvia Plath phase. I memorized the poems and…
Mar 26
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Of course my family used the Maxwell House Haggadah for our Passover seders when I was growing up. Why wouldn’t we…
Mar 24
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Detroit pizza is quite the thing these days. Even Pizza Hut is doing it. But folks in Seattle are so desperate for…
Mar 24
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Welcome, dear readers, to The Takeout Draft, our recurring feature that combines our love of food, fantasy sports,…
Mar 23
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You may remember that back in 2019, approximately 263 years ago, Burger King had a French Toast Breakfast Sandwich.…
Mar 22
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The Chicago writer José Olivarez published a poem in The Atlantic yesterday called “Ode To Tortillas.” It is lovely,…
Mar 22
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Last Christmas Eve, Lisa Angello took a few out-of-town guests to the Gaylord Rockies Resort in Aurora, Colorado, so…
Mar 20
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One of the strange things about consumerism is that sometimes things don’t sell for the reasons you anticipated they…
Mar 19
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Even before COVID-19 fully took hold in the U.S., diners were avoiding Chinese restaurants. Somehow the idea spread…