Alex Mayyasi
Contributor at The Hustle
Writing a @planetmoney book. Previously I was the founding editor of Gastro Obscura, and I co-wrote a book about the Egyptian Revolution.
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Oct 4, 2024 |
thehustle.co | Alex Mayyasi
Can you still make a fortune off a domain name? I don’t remember why I typed milk.com in my browser and hit enter — I just remember being delighted that I did. I’d expected the website of the dairy lobby, or perhaps some text that read, “This domain is for sale.” Instead I discovered what appeared to be a quirky personal website.
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Feb 16, 2024 |
newsbreak.com | Alex Mayyasi
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Feb 16, 2024 |
npr.org | Alex Mayyasi |Molly Messick |Sam Kesler
How the Navy came to protect cargo ships Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1197958269/1232106015" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> The cargo ship Genco Picardy was hit by a low-grade missile in the Gulf of Aden in January. In recent months, the Houthis, a tribal militant group from Yemen, have launched attacks on ships in response, they say, to Israel's war in Gaza.
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Nov 28, 2023 |
smithsonianmag.com | Alex Mayyasi |Jenn Ackerman |Tim Gruber
The morning dew dampens my sneakers as we ascend the green, undulating hill. Jerry Eisterhold, wearing a wide-brimmed hat against the Missouri summer sun, pulls a bunch of grapes of a type known as Delicatessen off the vine. “I got this one from a guy who should have won an amateur wine competition,” he says. “But the flavors were so unusual, the judges didn’t know what to do with it.”Eisterhold, 72, is giving me a tour of what might be America’s most unusual vineyard.
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Nov 28, 2023 |
flipboard.com | Alex Mayyasi
Wine1 day agoHow To Store 12 Fruits To Ensure They Stay FreshTasting Table - Sarah Nowicki Nicholson • 1dHaving a surplus of leftover fruit in the house at some point is extremely likely, whether due to holiday celebrations or going on vacation.
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Thank you @SmithsonianMag and @Ted_Scheinman for the chance to write about what I consider the world's most interesting winery! Plz everyone go drink wine in Kansas City and help make the wine world more interesting https://t.co/rUOx1ELLiQ
RT @StudioATAO: 📣 NYC hospitality workers! Join Studio ATAO and @queerfood_ for our 2nd Hospitality Worker Town Hall on May 8th at Yondu C…
As someone who got a sniff/taste/read of several chapters, I cannot recommend this book enough I know it sounds like a joke to say it's the perfect gift for the whole family. But it's seriously interesting, and this is Jess at peak delightful curiosity and thoughtful commentary
🎉My filthy little book tumbles into the world in Nov! It’s about sewers—as ecosystems, engineering marvels, environmental woes, barometers of life on the surface—and me sniffing a fatberg in the middle of the night. I’d be so, so honored if you’d read it: https://t.co/HEzsRDnWEo https://t.co/6LcBRElJOu
