This is excerpted from Power Vegetables! , our forthcoming cookbook of meat-free cooking that even carnivores can get behind. BREAD CRUMBS The power of bread crumbs is not to be underestimated. Think about how much has gone into making them! Flour and water have been married and fermented and baked…

Creative Insight If one brand truly embodies the pure, democratic design principles of Germany’s Ulm School of the 1950s and 60s, it’s not Apple, or even Braun, but Muji By 21/02/2017 11:31 am Join our community This article is available to subscribers only . Sign up now for your access-all-areas…

The New York Times Claws Its Way Into the Future by Gabriel Snyder | photographs by James Day 2.12.17 Arthur Gregg Sulzberger doesn’t remember the first time he visited the family business. He was young, he says, no older than 6, when he shuffled through the brass-plated revolving doors of the old…

9 min read· Jul 17, 2016 -- My partner and I are process nerds. Most projects we’re involved in use Agile, and it’s a set of tools and vocabulary we already share. We thought, why not run it on our relationship? What? Scrum is an Agile framework for completing complex projects. Scrum originally was…

Search Profiles Guided by a lusty appetite for indigenous culture and cuisine, the swaggering chef has become a travelling statesman. February 5, 2017 Bourdain, in Hanoi. He says, “I travel around the world, eat a lot of shit, and basically do whatever the fuck I want.”Photographs by William Mebane…

Published inPrototypr · 8 min read· Aug 31, 2016 -- Let’s be honest. The relationship between designers and the engineers who execute their designs can be rocky. A historical reenactment of the designers and engineers working together. Engineers get frustrated when designers design things that were…

My brain, like all brains, houses an unbelievable quantity of remembered information, and a huge amount of that information is stuff I’ve watched on television. I always hated Star Trek, and frequently said so, but whenever I catch a clip of The Next Generation, somehow I’ve seen that episode…

The eternal human struggle to live meaningfully in the face of inevitable death entered its newest phase one Monday in the summer of 2007, when employees of Google gathered to hear a talk by a writer and self-avowed geek named Merlin Mann. Their biggest professional problem was email, the digital…

BuzzFeed This story is part of a group of stories called Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. A version of this annual memo was originally distributed to employees at BuzzFeed. Hello BuzzFeeders, I’m writing my annual year-end memo to share thoughts on the…

News When looking became seeing When John Berger’s BBC television series Ways of Seeing was transformed into a paperback book in 1972, its design owed much to its origins on screen. Forty years on from its first publication, it remains both an influential text and a pioneering example of the visual…

Annals of Gastronomy The Scavenger November 1, 2009 Jonathan Gold eats as if his manhood depended on it—he fears only scrambled eggs.Illustration by Lara Tomlin For nearly twenty-five years, Jonathan Gold, the high-low priest of the Los Angeles food scene, has been chronicling the city’s carts and…

In 1976, Australia birthed three things: The AC/DC album High Voltage, the bratwurst stand at Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Market, and me. When I was a kid, my AC/DC-loving stepfather and I would brave the throngs in front of the bratwurst stand to claim our breakfast: Two regular brats, please, with…

When an old friend who was traveling to New Orleans for the first time emailed to ask me for restaurant and bar recommendations. I sent him my usual list—some personal favorites from the time I lived in the city, pre-Katrina, from 1998 to 2003: Willie Mae's Scotch House, Restaurant August, Molly's…

It's a Wednesday afternoon just before Christmas, and Daniel and I are stuck in heavy traffic in an Uber going home to Queens. He's just woken up from anesthesia, and his right arm is strapped into an absurdly huge foam box, more arm-chair than cast, intended to protect his newly operated-on wrist.…

Several decades before he became the father of industrial design, Raymond Loewy boarded the SS France in 1919 to sail across the Atlantic from his devastated continent to the United States. The influenza pandemic had taken his mother and father, and his service in the French army was over. At the…

Search Reflections April 28, 2008 ZOHAR LAZAR When I was in fourth grade, my class took a field trip to the American Tobacco plant in nearby Durham, North Carolina. There we witnessed the making of cigarettes and were given free packs to take home to our parents. I tell people this and they ask me…

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Culture Desk On making friends with animals. December 17, 2016 Since Carol came, our back yard has become a graveyard for pork chops and beef jerky and raw chicken legs.Illustration by Isabel Seliger Aside from Peter, who supposedly guards the gates of heaven and is a pivotal figure in any number of…

In the beginning, they were known as die Dönermorde – the kebab murders. The victims had little in common, apart from immigrant backgrounds and the modest businesses they ran. The first to die was Enver Şimşek, a 38-year-old Turkish-German man who ran a flower-import company in the southern German…

Did the Holocaust really happen? No. The Holocaust did not really happen. Six million Jews did not die. It is a Jewish conspiracy theory spread by vested interests to obscure the truth. The truth is that there is no evidence any people were gassed in any camp. The Holocaust did not happen. Are you…

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. On the astro-turfed rooftop of a SoHo penthouse this summer, a mix of tech executives, investors, and B-list celebrities sipped Champagne and nibbled mini tacos served by a white-jacketed waiter. Gayle King, the Oprah confidante and CBS This…

By November 30, 2016 at 6:30 AM EST Corrected December 2, 2016 at 12:43 PM EST I’ve always been well-liked. At least, I think that’s the case. I have friends, a spouse, a job, a college degree. I exercise. I get haircuts regularly. And yet lately I’ve felt unrealized—incomplete, almost. Everywhere I…

Search Currency November 28, 2016 Silicon Valley’s biggest failing is not poor marketing of its products, or follow-through on promises, but, rather, the distinct lack of empathy for those whose lives are disturbed by its technological wizardry.Photograph by Scott Eells / Bloomberg / Getty Silicon…

Search The Political Scene Inside a stunned White House, the President considers his legacy and America’s future. November 18, 2016 “We’re going to have to redesign the social compact,” Obama said. “And I know how to build a bridge to that new social compact.”Photograph by Pari Dukovic for The New…

Something strange is happening at America’s colleges and universities. A movement is arising, undirected and driven largely by students, to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense. Last December, Jeannie Suk wrote in an online article for The…

L et me tell you about a place where the coconut water never runs dry, there is a gluten-free version of everything, even gluten, the cookies are filled with vegetables, and everything is free. Two years ago, I was visiting a friend in San Francisco who had a class to teach, so I planned to hang…

I was sitting in a large meditation hall in a converted novitiate in central Massachusetts when I reached into my pocket for my iPhone. A woman in the front of the room gamely held a basket in front of her, beaming beneficently, like a priest with a collection plate. I duly surrendered my little…

The classic battle between nerds and brutes is one of brains versus brawn. In the geek films of the 1980s that introduced and immortalized this conflict—Revenge of the Nerds, Weird Science, Ghostbusters, Sixteen Candles—the nerds are always outcasts and misfits. And these fables all end the same…

The first time I ate a dish made from a Yotam Ottolenghi recipe, I was already having one of those perfect dinner-party moments. The scene was a porch in midsummer; six couples gathered. No rush or hurry, sun still hanging high in the sky. Drinks had been doled out: the quinine clarity of…

Search Profiles How the New York Times critic writes the reviews that make and break restaurants. September 5, 2016 Chefs now often sit atop empires. A single bad review from the Times can threaten a dozen restaurants and a thousand employees.Illustration by Luci Gutiérrez Pete Wells, the restaurant…

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The technology enthusiast sees the ad banner for the technology product that might help fulfill his lifestyle aspirations. The technology enthusiast clicks there. The website of the technology product convinces the fierce believer in a brighter tomorrow that he has been plagued by a pressing problem…

But it took a weekend in Oakland to show me that. Published inEqual Future · 10 min read· Jul 31, 2016 -- You may have heard recently that there’s a problem with racism on Airbnb. Screenshots of racist epithets, and other experiences collected under#AirbnbWhileBlack, have revealed a few of the…

Gawker.com, the pioneering and controversial media blog, officially died yesterday. It was killed by billionaire Peter Thiel in his successful quest to bankrupt Gawker Media Group through a series of lawsuits he funded – most notably wrestler Hulk Hogan, who sued over the publication of a portion of…

Igor Schwarzmann is the German co-founder of Third Wave, a strategy consultancy based in Berlin that works with small-scale industrial manufacturers. The company’s clients range across Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States, so Schwarzmann often finds himself moving between poles of the…

Search The Political Scene “The Art of the Deal” made America see Trump as a charmer with an unfailing knack for business. Tony Schwartz helped create that myth—and regrets it. July 18, 2016 “I put lipstick on a pig,” Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter, says. He feels “deep remorse.”Illustration by…

A 12-year-old girl in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq.Credit...Mauricio Lima for The New York Times Claiming the Quran’s support, the Islamic State codifies sex slavery in conquered regions of Iraq and Syria and uses the practice as a recruiting tool. A 12-year-old girl in the Kurdistan region…

Credit...Photo illustration by Christopher Mitchell Features The star of Netflix’s “Tidying Up” and author of “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up” is training an army of emissaries to declutter the American home. Credit...Photo illustration by Christopher Mitchell By July 6, 2016 한국어로…