James Kent, prominent chef behind Santa Monica Pier’s culinary overhaul, dies at 45 On Sunday the team of Saga shared that they would be reopening Kent’s three New York City restaurants for service that evening, and planning a memorial service for the chef. “We have no fraction of a ... 06/17/2024 - 2:25 pm | View Link
These Atlanta Chefs Got Their Starts in Massage Therapy and Late-Night Shifts at Taco Bell At 17, Cody Chassar, who became chef de cuisine at Kevin Gillespie’s Gunshow last year, worked at his neighborhood Taco Bell in Chesterfield, Michigan. He’d walk two miles from his house after school ... 06/17/2024 - 6:52 am | View Link
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16 Great Black-Owned Restaurants In Atlanta Atlanta has many phenomenal Black-owned restaurants around the metro. Here are some popular (and some pioneering) spots worth checking out. 06/11/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Like father, like son: Murphy’s chef continues legacy at Atlanta restaurant The meal not only marked his return to the Atlanta institution he helmed as executive chef from 2005-2009 ... celebrate your favorite Dad on Father’s Day Matt was 13 when he started to consider ... 06/11/2024 - 12:09 am | View Link
This month marks the anniversary of a book that changed America.
History.com:
On June 15, 1974, Simon & Schuster releases All the President’s Men, the first definitive book about the Watergate scandal, authored by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporters from The Washington Post who broke the explosive story.
During a private meeting with congressional Republicans Thursday, convicted felon Donald Trump reportedly called Milwaukee, where the Republican National Convention will be held in July, a "horrible city." He then lied about crime in the city, where homicides are down 42% since 2022.
But don’t worry, Wisconsin, you are not alone in Trump's disdain for the country’s most populous areas.
Democrats are not bringing Powerpoint slides to a gunfight any longer. Tiger Beat on the Potomac (AKA Politico, Thanks Charlie Pierce!) morning email thingie:
A MATTER OF CONVICTION — The JOE BIDEN campaign is announcing a major new $50 million June ad push this morning, centered on a new spot slamming DONALD TRUMP over his conviction in the New York hush money case.
The effects of extreme heat on the human body have been well-documented, but increased summer temperatures may also pose another type of burden for millions of Americans—financial.
In addition to the increased frequency and record-high temperatures that are hallmarks of a heat wave, climate change is also lengthening the duration of a heat wave, and Americans can expect to see the cost of energy rise alongside temperatures.
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“There’s a cost to climate change,” Mark Wolfe, the executive director of the National Energy Assistance Directors Association (NEADA), tells TIME.
As the weather starts heating up this week, you may be tempted to go outside—but with the outdoors comes the possibility of getting bitten by mosquitoes. And if you find yourself getting a lot of mosquito bites, it could be because of the way you smell or the colors of the clothes you are wearing, recent research has found.
“If you think you are a mosquito magnet, it’s probably the case,” Jeffrey Riffell, a biology professor at the University of Washington who studies mosquito sensory systems, said in a video on the university’s website released earlier this month.
Shilletha Curtis has logged thousands of miles hiking the world’s most challenging trails—and turning into a sweaty, sticky mess along the way. The dry heat of the Continental Divide Trail, which stretches from Mexico to Canada, is vivid in her memory. But the absolute most scorching? That would be the Appalachian Trail, a nearly 2,200-mile trek from Georgia to Maine.