The James Beard Foundation announced the nominees for its 2025 Media Awards on Wednesday, and Eater received four nominations and Punch received two. Eater correspondent Jaya Saxena was nominated for the MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award, for “The Food That Makes You Gay,” an exploration of the power — both positive and negative — of…
A few years ago, an Anishinaabe elder named Lucy was showing me the corn she grew in a small plot of land in Southwest Detroit. She pointed out an ear of corn peppered with swollen, irregular grey-purple growths and said she wasn’t sure what it was and why it happened. With excitement, I told her…
Happy Way Day! For the uninitiated, Way Day is an annual blowout sale held by Wayfair, the retail behemoth with a massive and diverse stock of home goods, affordable and design-forward furniture, kitchenwares, and way, way more. Want a giant dog butler statue? Op Art home designer decor? A barrel sauna? They’re all at Wayfair,…
I’ve been led to understand that Americans have a limited palate for textures. On the whole, we do not do the gooey sproing of collagen-rich tendons, or the sliminess of natto or the sponginess of tripe. Instead, we like things fatty and creamy and most of all, crunchy. Well, yeah, so sue me. This is…
I’ve been led to understand that Americans have a limited palate for textures. On the whole, we do not do the gooey sproing of collagen-rich tendons, or the sliminess of natto or the sponginess of tripe. Instead, we like things fatty and creamy and most of all, crunchy. Well, yeah, so sue me. This is…
Eggs, in a fundamental biological sense, are life. They are also having a very strange year. In January, the cost of eggs jumped 15 percent. A month later, eggs experienced their largest price jump since 1980. This surge in prices was, of course, due to the ongoing avian flu epidemic: From December through February alone,…
One of the things we love most about food is wine. Specifically, the bottle or glass that you order to go along with snacks at your favorite bar, or a multi-course dinner at that fancy place in town. It’s wine that’s selected by someone who knows what they’re doing — a professional who understands how…
Last year, Eater published its first guidebooks to New York City and Los Angeles, and this year, we’re bringing our travel expertise to perennially popular Paris. Together with longtime Eater contributor Lindsey Tramuta and our publisher, Abrams, we’ve put together a seminal guide to eating and drinking in a city that never stops thinking about…
The finalists for the 2025 National Magazine Awards, named by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME), were announced on Thursday, and Eater was recognized in three categories. For the third year in a row, Eater was nominated for General Excellence, Service and Lifestyle, alongside Esquire, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, and Saveur. This is Eater’s fourth…
Jill Dehnert, group publisher of lifestyle brands at Vox Media, announced today that Talia Baiocchi has been promoted to general manager of Eater, PS (formerly Popsugar), Punch, and Thrillist. In this role, Baiocchi will be responsible for developing the business of those brands, with a primary focus on growing sponsorships across platforms. Baiocchi was previously…
