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3 weeks ago | 
grubstreet.com | Zach Schiffman |Maanvi Kapur
Ella Emhoff launched her Substack, Soft Crafts Craft Club, in late October of last year, just as her stepmother rounded off her presidential campaign. Five months later, she’s shed her Secret Service detail and is trying to rediscover her voice through her art and writing, shepherding an online — and charmingly intergenerational — community of crafters. “A lot of my demographic is not 25-year-olds,” she says.
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2 months ago | 
grubstreet.com | Rima Parikh |Maanvi Kapur
For the last four years, writer Torrey Peters has been splitting her time between Colombia and New York City. The Detransition, Baby author gets her fill of the country’s abundance of fresh fruit; she often reads while working her way through a three-pound bag of tiny mangoes over the course of an hour. “They’re so small, and there’s so much work to get out what is basically a spoonful of incredibly good, sweet mango,” she says. But she misses Asian food when she’s away.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
grubstreet.com | Emma Alpern |Maanvi Kapur
Among this fall’s big books, Tony Tulathimutte’s Rejection might be the most unusual: a collection of interconnected stories about sex, envy, and loserdom in the post-internet world that went on to be longlisted for the National Book Award.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
grubstreet.com | Alyssa Shelasky |Maanvi Kapur
Safi, who was in town last week for friends and food. Bryan Safi is everywhere: on TV (as an actor on 9-1-1); on podcasts covering politics, groceries, LGBTQ+ concerns, and the Bravoverse; and onstage as a stand-up (he’ll be at Littlefield with a show next month). Last week, he was in town from L.A., visiting his boyfriend, performing at Joe’s Pub, and stopping into old favorites (Le Crocodile) and new-to-him favorites (Sofreh) along the way.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
grubstreet.com | Britina Cheng |Maanvi Kapur
“The foods that are fit for the bed are a joy to eat in the most relaxed position possible.” Growing up, Josh Johnson knew he had to eat the home-cooked jambalaya, gumbo, and blackened fish that his grandmother would prepare. “It wasn’t just about me,” he says.
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May 17, 2024 | 
grubstreet.com | Alan Sytsma |Maanvi Kapur
Chaey with chard, chia pudding, and a rhubarb galette. After leaving Bon Appétit in 2022, former senior food editor Christina Chaey started her newsletter, Gentle Foods. “It’s really a place where I do a lot of writing about food and all of these other things that feel like they intersect with food,” she says.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
grubstreet.com | Emma Alpern |Maanvi Kapur
Caruso with her popcorn and Twin Snakes. When Greta Caruso launched her Substack, The Green Spoon, with Fanny Singer in November, the two friends, who both have backgrounds in the worlds of cooking and sustainable food (Caruso co-founded the delivery service Good Eggs and is a board member at the Edible Schoolyard Project), had been swapping family-oriented recipes for months. “We had kids within a month of each other in 2022,” Caruso says.
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Feb 9, 2024 | 
grubstreet.com | Zach Schiffman |Maanvi Kapur
Avantika, who moved to New York for school. In this year’s Mean Girls reboot, Avantika plays Karen, the dumbest member of the plastics. (Over at Vulture, Jackson McHenry wrote that the actress “somehow finds a lane of ‘stupid’ both hilarious and distinct from Amanda Seyfried’s.”) In real life, the high-school valedictorian is now eating most of her meals at some of the city’s most exclusive culinary establishments: Columbia University’s student dining halls.
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Jan 5, 2024 | 
grubstreet.com | Emma Alpern |Maanvi Kapur
Craddock, who knows it’s better to support your local bakery than to try and make bread at home. For most of its 30 years in existence, Saveur was an antidote to corporate-owned food magazines, one that offered lush photography and consistently excellent recipes to its small but devoted audience. But the last several years were less kind: The magazine was bought and sold, and eventually, its print edition was eliminated completely.
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Nov 3, 2023 | 
grubstreet.com | Zach Schiffman |Mark Byrne |Maanvi Kapur
Rogers with his favorite salad, a great burger, and the sushi he trusted Postmates to choose for him. Matt Rogers commits to the bit. When he started his Have You Heard of Christmas solo show in 2017, he says, “The bit was that it was fake.” But now, it’s become a Showtime special and, as of today, a proper Christmas album, as well. “It’s almost like I did a bit on myself,” he says.
