Food Trends & Opinions

Dirty Hands, Clean Conscience: A Completely Unscientific but Deeply Committed Ranking of Foods You Should Eat With Your Fingers

Somewhere between your first chicken wing and your most recent artichoke leaf, you crossed a line that restaurants drew in invisible ink and never told you about. We ranked the finger foods that society has simultaneously endorsed and judged, investigated the eyebrow-twitch threshold of servers nationwide, and asked hard questions about why a $48 rack of ribs comes with a finger bowl but no permission to actually enjoy yourself.

Aug 5, 2026

Off the Plate: A Field Guide to Eating Dinner Off Everything Except an Actual Dish

At some point between 2012 and now, the dinner plate — a technology humanity perfected over several thousand years — was quietly retired by American fine dining. In its place: slate, wood, river rocks, and at least one restaurant in Brooklyn that served us soup in a hollowed-out log. We have questions.

Aug 5, 2026

Chef, Are You Okay? A Tour Through the Food Trends That Broke the Culinary Internet

From cloud bread to deconstructed everything, social media has been cheerfully dismantling the culinary world one TikTok at a time — and professional chefs have been watching with expressions ranging from bemused to genuinely distressed. We asked some of them to weigh in, and the results were illuminating, occasionally profane, and always honest.

Aug 4, 2026

A Formal Apology to My Taste Buds: Ranking the Millennial Food Crimes We Cannot Unsee

From sriracha applied to things that had no business meeting sriracha, to avocado toast's decade-long stranglehold on every brunch menu in America, younger diners have committed some genuinely unforgivable culinary sins. We're ranking the worst offenders, begrudgingly acknowledging the ones that actually worked, and asking the hard question: when does a trend become a war crime?

Aug 4, 2026