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The Burden of Eating in ‘America’

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Centuries of colonialist practices have severed the connection between Indigenous people and what we consume Listen to this article It’s difficult for me to celebrate food. When I think about my connection to food, many of my first thoughts are rooted in trauma. The constant societal pressure to be thin began a lifelong struggle with disordered eating at only 8 years old. I later developed severe chronic pain and autoimmune diseases with symptoms that are made worse by gluten, soy, and dairy. Being diagnosed as diabetic in my early 30s sent me into months of extreme food restrictions that left me ill. Then there are adult years of being food insecure, either through a lack of money for food or a lack of help accessing food and preparing meals. The stress and humiliation of standing in the grocery store in a body coursing with pain, counting my grocery costs down to the penny — because EBT is never enough to survive on — has never left my psyche. Eating now is a complex proc

Inside The Martini Bar at The National Hotel + Drink Recipes!

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Located within The National Hotel, one of Miami Beach’s iconic art deco landmark beachfront properties, is its sexy Martini Bar. Recently undergoing a refresh, the space is beautifully elevated while still preserving the history of the hotel built by Architect Roy Frances back in 1939. The intimate space has a speakeasy vibe to it, and is brought to life by an amazing collection of international art paired tastefully with glass and antique ware from the original bar. Below we have a few of their most popular cocktails on the menu, check them out! Liqueur , Vodka Pear With Me Ingredients 2 oz. Grey Goose Pear .75 oz. Dessert Pear .5 oz. Dissarono Amaretto .75 oz. Lemon Juice 5 dashes Foam Bitters Preparation Combine all the ingredients in a shaker. Add Ice and hard shake. Strain the ingredients on a dry shaker and double dry shake. Pour into martini glass and garnish with edible flowers. Whiskey Not Too Fashioned Ingredients 2 oz. Bulle

6 Gorgeous Riffs on Classic Cocktails using Espanita Double Barrel Añejo Tequila

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As drinks aficionados continue to seek out aged options across categories, Reposado and Añejo together now account for just over 50% of the sales value of all tequila produced in Mexico and combined with the steady growth in premium categories of all spirits, was a clear sign for Espanita Tequila that opportunity abounds for exceptional aged spirits like a Double Barrel Añejo. Taking note of these consumer trends, Espanita began experimenting with different barrel finishes and maturation approaches for aging its tequila, debuting its Barrel Reserve Collection with a Double Barrel Reposado last year. This expression is an amazing substitute for other complex brown spirits found in some of today’s popular classic cocktail riffs. Here are six of our favorites. Tequila Papa’s Nightcap Ingredients 2 oz Espanita Double Barrel Añejo Tequila 1/2 oz and 1 bar spoon of Coffee liqueur 1/4 oz Agave syrup 2-3 dashes Orange bitters 4 Drops Bittermens Xocolatl Mole bitters 1 expr

Join Eater and Shopify for a Holiday Market in New York

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Shop an Eater-curated collection of food and home gifts, stop by for festive tastings, and get holiday cooking advice from our favorite cookbook authors and chefs For the second year running, Eater is teaming up with Shopify to bring our gift guides for food and restaurant obsessives to life. Kicking off Friday, December 8, Eater will fill Shopify’s New York City space with a pop-up market featuring dozens of Eater-curated food and home finds and festive programming. Think chats with our favorite cookbook authors, tastings of products from Shopify merchants, and demos on oyster shucking, knife handling, and more. Plus, plan to cross off everyone on your holiday shopping list with items from Dusen Dusen, Monsoon Chocolate, and Fly By Jing, to name just a few, through Sunday, December 17. (Note: The market will be closed Monday, December 11.) Read on for more details on what you can find, and check back here for more programming updates. Shopify x Eater Holiday Market New York 131

Paris Hilton Is in Her Domestic Goddess Era

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Grey Goose The Sliv Queen herself on boring kitchenware, easy martinis, and whether or not her iconic cooking show will ever make a comeback In her more than 20 years in the public eye, Paris Hilton has been a lot of things. Among them, a notorious party girl, a fragrance mogul, and the original influencer . But now she’s establishing herself in an entirely different lane: your home kitchen. In 2021, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Hilton debuted Cooking With Paris , a series in which she and her celebrity friends (including her former employee, Kim Kardashian) cooked dishes like French toast and lasagna in Hilton’s chic kitchen. Cooking With Paris was a sleeper hit, and in the years following its debut, Hilton has further emerged as a voice in the culinary world. Earlier this year, she released her Be An Icon cookware collection at Walmart, a mostly-pink assortment of pots and pans, coffee presses, and heart-shaped baking dishes that sold out almost instantly . Now, she’s

Festive Cocktails from Broken Shed Vodka!

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If you’re in need of some drinks to impress your guests this holiday season, we’ve got you covered. Cheers to creating unforgettable moments! Photo by Broken Shed Vodka Vodka Far From the Tree by Michael Hastings Ingredients 1.5 oz. Rosemary-Infused Broken Shed Vodka* 0.5 oz. Fresh Lime Juice 0.75 oz. Cinnamon Apple-Infused Simple Syrup** 0.5 oz. Unsweetened Cranberry Juice 1 Egg White Apple slice and Rosemary Sprig, for garnish Preparation Dry shake all of the ingredients, then shake again with ice. Double strain into a chilled martini glass, and garnish with an apple slice and a smoldering rosemary sprig. Rosemary-Infused Broken Shed Vodka* Ingredients 8.5 oz. Broken Shed Vodka 10 grams of Rosemary Sprigs (about 5) Preparation Add ingredients to an iSi whipper (do not overfill). Add an N2O cartridge, shake, then let rest for 10 minutes. Hold the iSi whipper upright and vent the gas as quickly as possible. Unscrew the top of the iSi w

Leave Prue Leith Alone

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Lille Allen/Eater Some people apparently don’t have anything better to do than criticize the ‘Great British Bake Off’ judge for simply existing Just because humanity has evolved enough to develop the internet doesn’t mean we’re responsible enough to have it. The vitriol of Great British Bake Off clickbait (further) proves that. It came for GBBO when it switched from the BBC to Channel 4, losing Mary Berry and original hosts Sue and Mel in the process. It came for Noel when he hid in a fridge . It came for Matt Lucas when he started on the show, and then when he was on it, and then again when he left. It came for the new season , which was deemed “too boring.” And now the Great British Bake Off clickbait industrial complex has come for Prue Leith . For what? Being “lame.” Before I continue, a disclaimer: Some Bake Off controversy is justified. See, for example, Leith’s now-retired “ not worth the calories ” catchphrase, or the obscenity that was Mexican Week . But GBBO gene

The Best Lasagna Recipe

The BEST easy, classic lasagna recipe made with a ground beef meat sauce, no- cook noodles, and cottage cheese for extra protein! Lasagna Recipe If you’re Italian and you’re thinking, cottage cheese in lasagna? I totally get you! I always turned my nose up to that idea. But with great cottage cheese brands available these from Skinnytaste https://ift.tt/rUsNvTS via IFTTT

In ‘Les Troisgros,’ a Restaurant Documentary That’s Well Worth Watching

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Zipporah Films In “Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros,” Frederick Wiseman turns his attention to fine dining at three-Michelin-starred restaurant Troisgros None of the cinematic tropes that have come to define today’s food documentaries — sweeping pans, glistening surfaces, a climactic symphony of strings — are present in Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros , a spellbinding new four-hour documentary about the three-starred Michelin restaurant Troisgros. In place of the usual grandiloquent aesthetic of luxury spun up by docuseries like Chef’s Table and Taco Chronicles , the film offers up the unvarnished, observational style of Frederick Wiseman. The 93-year-old filmmaker — known for depicting the inner workings of societal institutions, including the New York Public Library , Boston’s City Hall , and a Massachusetts correctional institution — takes an exhaustive approach, filming hundreds of hours of footage and piecing them together without exposition or a dramatic arc. Sequences unfol