Creators have always used adversity as inspiration for their art, but when that muse is still the very present—and very deadly—Covid-19, one should probably tread lightly. Imagine the uproar when a dish from Chicago’s Alinea in Residence pop-up that resembled the coronavirus made its way onto Instagram. The canapé in question—a greyish round of coconut custard dotted with freeze-dried raspberries and Szechuan peppercorns—garnered hundreds of replies, and a hearty defense from Alinea Group co-owner Nick Kokonas on the post. “Art is often meant to provoke discomfort, conversation, and awareness. This is no different,” Kokonas countered to one of the many commentators. “Everyone on here saying we are somehow oblivious need to think just a single level upwards.” If that’s the hill you want to die on, sure, but we never had this problem with the Baby Yoda cocktail.
Grist, an award-winning, nonprofit media organization dedicated to highlighting climate solutions and uncovering environmental injustices,…
Every year, California dairy farms emit hundreds of thousands of tons of the potent greenhouse…
Highway 7 runs north-south through western Washington, carving its way through a landscape sparsely dotted…
One of the greatest pleasures I had as a child growing up in the Chicago…
Undocumented immigrants experience food insecurity at much higher rates than other populations, yet they are…
Writer Charlotte Druckman and editor Rebecca Flint Marx are both Jewish journalists living in New…