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How to spend a perfect day in Milwaukee

Milwaukee is a city I’ve always loved, but now I can appreciate it even more through adult eyes. I was born and raised here, moved to New York and eventually came home, where I put down roots with my then-girlfriend,…
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Costco chicken bake meets weeknight galette

I love food court food. Not ironically, and not only in the nostalgic way one loves things that arrived alongside an adolescence spent under fluorescent lighting. I love the architecture of it: the trays, the paper cups, the strange little…
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The global appeal of the pastry dog

For five years, Sister Schubert’s fans asked, begged and eventually petitioned for the return of a frozen food composed of two things: a small smoked sausage and a soft Parker House roll. The company had discontinued its Sausage Wrap Rolls…
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Stuffing deserves a life beyond Thanksgiving

Back when Twitter was still the kind of place where a stray observation could become communal property by lunchtime — before the app hardened quite so completely into a highly polarized, hyper-monetized digital town square populated by tech founders and…
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For a few years around the turn of the millennium, Ronald McDonald had an unusually sophisticated side hustle. Between 1998 and 2003, McDonald’s released six installments of “The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald,” a direct-to-video series sending Ronald, Grimace, Hamburglar…
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A brownie-muffin for zucchini season

My grandmother has always been a rattler. When I was a child, she gave me a book called “Gus Was a Friendly Ghost,” about a genial little ghost who makes grilled-cheese sandwiches and occasionally gives himself away by bumping around…
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Crocodile dumplings and kangaroo on a train Down Under

On this iconic train journey through the center of Australia, the country’s most dangerous and unique creatures are turned into a tasty snack. Aboard The Ghan, stretching from Darwin to Adelaide, Australian game and ingredients are featured in every meal.…
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Why the right is so afraid of the Girl Scouts

The American culture war has always had a bit of a sweet tooth. There were the Oreos that became boycott fodder after the brand released an ad centered on a young man coming out to his family. There were the…
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Trump’s mystery meat problem – Salon.com

One of the things I have always loved about “Bob’s Burgers” is the bittersweet certainty that the Belchers may get ahead, but never by very much. Sixteen seasons have been built, in part, around the small economies of restaurant life:…
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