In this year of political unrest and uprising, it’s not surprising that the earthquakes have spread to some of the…
Aimee Levitt
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Former associate editor of The Takeout. Chicagoan. Owned by dog.
The other day, during my usual doomscrolling, I came across a post that brought me up short:
When it comes to grocery shopping, there are Trader Joe’s people, Whole Foods people, and people who are happy to…
Until the 1800s, a woman was not considered pregnant, technically, until the fetus had “quickened,” or started to…
As if there’s not enough to worry about these days, NASA has reported that an asteroid is headed toward Earth on…
If you’re in the turkey business, late fall is like tax season. There must be other times of the year when people…
Remember those great early-pandemic days last spring when bags of flour and yeast suddenly became precious items?…
The Food Network’s Halloween Wars concluded last weekend with a victory for Team Mummies Rejects: pumpkin carver…
We were so happy to see the great confluence of St. Louis-ness that is the Nelly Budweiser can. What greater honor…
Remember the Haggen Grocery Store Burglar? For several months last winter, he confounded police and employees of…
The most St. Louis thing of all St. Louis things has happened: St. Louis rapper Nelly is getting his own special can…
As those great Canadians the Barenaked Ladies may have sung, it’s been one (work) week since we started Canada Week,…
In the years before Diet Coke became an international institution, the greatest diet soda in the world was Tab. Do…
A few days after stay-at-home orders began, Angela Hansberger, a restaurant writer in Atlanta, received a package in…
Did you know that speed-folding pizza boxes was a sport? Neither did I, until today. But then I learned about Randy…
Pret A Manger exists for just one reason: to feed office workers. It takes literally a minute or even less to walk…
The world is full of lettuce—kale, romaine, Little Gem, Boston, Bibb, radicchio, arugula, mesclun—and yet for years,…
Potatoes were one of the first victims of the Taco Bell Great Menu Streamlining of 2020. Many fans mourned. Cooks…
It’s the spooky season, and everyone knows that there’s no spookier region of the U.S. than New England. Just ask a…
For generations, probably since forever, the drug of choice of college students has been booze: jugs of wine and…