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Bond Market

by Lee A. (Lee Allan) Craig, Julianne Treme, Thomas Joseph Weiss,

From “License to Dine: 007 and the Real Exchange Rate,” a working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, which compares the evolution of James Bond’s salary with that…

Staples Foods

From the menu of Good Fortune Burger in Toronto, which named all of its dishes after office supplies so that customers could request reimbursement from their employers. Ergonomic Aluminum Laptop…

Chipotle Misérables

by Brett Bachman,Translated by Eduardo Zevallos,

From the notebook of an editor at the New York Post who interviewed Melvin Paulino, an employee at a Chipotle restaurant in New York City, in December. Interpreted on-site from the…

Some Like It Scott

From TikTok videos of customers ordering the Travis Scott Meal. The meal, which includes a Quarter Pounder, french fries, and a Sprite, is a collaboration between McDonald’s and Travis Scott,…

Going Home Again

by Theodore Ross,

The Vietnamese overseas return

Edible Arrangement

From a list of nontraditional tableware at restaurants. The list was compiled by We Want Plates, a food blog.

A Goose in a Dress

by Tanya Gold,

In which our intrepid restaurant critic submits to the dreams and excesses of New York’s most fashionable eateries

Wild Pigeon

by Carolyn Drake,

Portrait of a Township

by Justine van der Leun,

Former militants take on the post-apartheid struggle

Chicago Is the Future

by Thomas Frank,

It was in 1988 that I moved to the bedraggled neighborhood of Hyde Park in order to study American history at the University of Chicago. I left the city ten…

Dining with the Tiger

by John Banville,

Dublin's restaurant bubble