Personal Essays
Our personal essays offer thoughtful perspectives on the roles that food, drink, cooking, and gathering over meals play in all of our lives.
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Why Candy Corn Deserves Our Respect: An Appreciation
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How Does a Restaurant Last 35 Years? The History of Chicago's Heaven on Seven
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Dear Restaurants: Please Stop Playing Live Music
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How Spam Won Over America's Restaurants
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Calculating the Ghostbusters Twinkie Size In Real Life
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A Vegetarian's Christmas Eve Pig Roast
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30 Rock Secrets: Liz Lemon’s Favorite Sandwich Is From Fiore’s in Hoboken, NJ
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What I Found in a Bag of Frozen Dumplings
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An Ode to Dahi
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Wisdom You Knead: What I Learned Baking With My Mother
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Mayela's Gift: Unwrapping Pastillas de Leche
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A Peach by Any Other Name Is Just as Gross: My Terrible Fear of Fruit
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When Family is Far, Food Offers a Sense of Belonging During Ramadan
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The Njahi Wars: Behind Kenya's Controversial Black Bean
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The Case for Bad Coffee
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East, West, Then Backward: Falling for Groundnut Soup in Ghana
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I Grew Up Abroad. Do I Have a Cuisine?
![Sasha Marx from Serious Eats standing in a kitchen with a pile of different packages of pastas on the counter in front of him.](https://www.seriouseats.com/thmb/mWd3P9q35oIkNn7nsEupfvbBrhs=/300x225/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/__opt__aboutcom__coeus__resources__content_migration__serious_eats__seriouseats.com__2020__03__20200322-pasta-rants-sasha-aa063638f61a441581bfba717296965c.jpg)
Please, No: The Pasta Shapes We Won't Eat
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Knights, Horses, and...Hummus? An Evening at Medieval Times
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Easy, Peasy, Japanese-y: Benihana and the Question of Cultural Appropriation
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Why I Only Buy Whole Chickens (and You Can, Too!)
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Butter Chicken: Even When It’s Bad, It’s Good!
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The 10-Minute Window for the Perfect McDonald’s Mash-Up
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We Pit Cup Noodles Against Cup Noodle and the Difference Is Real
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Ina Is Queen, Even in Quarantine
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How My Relationship to Cooking Changed After Having a Baby
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Smell Loss and Its Impact on Enjoying Food
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What's Your Heartbreak Food?
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Saying Goodbye to the Most Exciting Ramen Restaurant in the Country
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Friday Night Meatballs: How to Change Your Life With Pasta
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All Praise the St. Louis Bagel and Its Infinite Potential
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Merry Black Day: Canoodling on Korea’s Anti-Valentine’s Holiday
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Why So Serious? Escaping Food Media's Uncanny Valley
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How I Got My Toddler Interested in Food and Cooking
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What Does Food Media Smell Like?: Diversity and the Beard Awards
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How Cooking Websites Are Failing People With Disabilities
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"Oh, @%#^": Our Most Embarrassing Kitchen Fails
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Authenticity? These Filipino Chefs Aren’t Concerned
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Please Stop Ordering Iced Cappuccinos
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Sweet, Memory: On the Subtle Magic of the Cookie Jar
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Daniel's Favorite Recipes of 2019
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Sasha's Favorite Recipes of 2019
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Serious Eats Through the Years: Our Early Days, in Photos
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Drinking the Bottom Shelf: Gordon's London Dry Gin
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6 Ways to Build Your Spicy Food Tolerance
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In Defense of St. Louis-Style Pizza
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Essential Shanghai Street Food: 14 Must-Eat Dishes
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Facing Gestational Diabetes as a Food Lover
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Cheese Confessionals: I Ate Casu Marzu, aka 'Maggot Cheese'
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A Hill of Beans, and How I Cooked Them
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