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6 days ago | businessinsider.com | Grace DeGraaf |Corey Mintz |Henry Blodget

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . French fries, the staple reward for well-behaved kids and go-to comfort food for overworked grown-ups, may soon become more of a luxury treat. While the US grows most of its own potatoes — about 44 billion pounds each year — there's another french fry ingredient that we largely don't produce on American soil, cooking oil.

1 week ago | businessinsider.com | Grace DeGraaf |Eve Upton-Clark |Henry Blodget

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . Eleanor Lee grew up surrounded by golf. Her grandparents were members of the exclusive Claremont Country Club in Oakland, California, and would take Lee and her family to the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club near San Diego every Thanksgiving to play its nine-hole course. "​​Most of my golf memories were of being a child running on those golf courses," she tells me.

2 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Grace DeGraaf |Henry Blodget

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . When Adele Scott finished her undergraduate degree in 2004, she wasn't certain what she wanted her career to look like. She had some experience working in customer service, so when she got an offer to work for a data management company, she couldn't think of a compelling reason to turn it down. Over the next 17 years, much happened in Scott's personal life.

2 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Grace DeGraaf |Rong Xiaoqing |Henry Blodget

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . The midtown Manhattan building where Jackie Kennedy, Elizabeth Taylor, and Truman Capote once dined, then the legendary French restaurant La Grenouille, is now a nondescript renovation site with wood, metal, and industrial-size garbage bins strewn about.

Jan 25, 2020 | businessinsider.com | Grace DeGraaf