Hannah Goldfield

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Hannah Goldfield

In 2021, Avish Naran had an epiphany. After graduating from culinary school, in Napa, he’d been cycling through the kitchens of high-end Indian restaurants in San Francisco and New York—Rooh, August 1 Five, Indian Accent—with an eye toward opening his own someday. “And then I realized, like, dude, there’s no fucking way that I’m going to be able to do this shit as good as, like, any of these people,” he told me, referring to his former bosses.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Hannah Goldfield

12 hours agoIn 2010, a programmer who was mining bitcoin famously made the comically expensive mistake of spending 10,000 bitcoin on two pizzas. As of this writing, those coins would be worth $850 million dollars. While there are few comparisons to that kind of miscalculation, the prospect of adding interest …

1 month ago | vanityfair.it | Hannah Goldfield

Se ogni città ha il suo simbolo gastronomico, quello di Los Angeles è facilmente riconoscibile in Erewhon, la catena di supermercati di culto dove un litro di acqua «iperossigenata» costa ben 13 dollari (circa 12 euro). Nato nel 1966 a Boston come chiosco di cibi salutari, tra germogli di soia e dispenser di prodotti sfusi, è il frutto dell’intuizione di immigrati giapponesi che promuovevano la dieta macrobiotica.

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Hannah Goldfield

For bakeries in New Orleans, the first few months of the year are among the busiest. As the rest of the country stares down the barrel of January, sobered by New Year’s resolutions, the city is just easing into Carnival, the season of revelry and indulgence that lasts from Three Kings Day (also known as Epiphany) to Fat Tuesday, which immediately precedes the start of Lent.

2 months ago | newyorker.com | Hannah Goldfield

On the Tuesday morning in January when Los Angeles began to burn, the Santa Ana winds whipped hard at Courtney Storer’s driveway gate, at the edge of the city’s East Side, yanking open the wooden doors. A crop of cypress trees behind her house leaned eastward in the gusts, as if trying to escape something; weeks later, the trees remain bent.