Morgan Thomas takes a picture of every dining party at his restaurant in Section, Alabama, subtly making up for all the times that people today are ignored or overlooked. I’m so grateful he shared his Ole Gin Steakhouse portraits with @thefoodsection.bsky.social
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If better food journalism has hit the airwaves this year than Episode 3 of Catching the Codfather, I haven’t heard it. Major props to @iancoss.bsky.social and team for not only turning up archival snippets and getting the best quotes, but knowing which ones serve the story. overcast.fm/+ABDdBFBDyso
What counts as a Southern dish? The answer's always changing, but Candy Hom makes a irrefutable case for dry-fried eggplant in @thefoodsection.bsky.social, demonstrating how it reflects the modern culinary history of Atlanta and the city's ethos today. thefoodsection.com/canon-fodder/
I do my best Paul Theroux, attempting to turn the four hour Mardi Gras Express into an epic journey, with plenty of meals along the way. Perhaps today it becomes the Lentan Local? gardenandgun.com/feature/amtr...
When our W. Va. bureau chief pitched a Tudor's Biscuit World story, she mentioned the chain was so homey that its biscuits were named for loyal customers. "Oh, yeah?" I said. "You think that's true, or a story cooked up by corporate?" And thus began her Ron search. thefoodsection.com/biscuit-sand...
There are a few TFS stories I like to cite when explaining how @thefoodsection.bsky.social covers Southern food, and Hallie Lieberman’s reporting on the popularity of fried chicken-flavored lube may have just shot to the top of the list. Subscribe to read! thefoodsection.com/georgia-adul...
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With the Post effectively abdicating its local news role, I would encourage anyone wanting to support local news in DC to support @51st.news and my old colleagues at @wcp.bsky.social.
There is so much reporting needed in that city. Support them. Grow them.
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If you are able, The Post's union has started a layoff fund for those fired by the world's fourth-richest man today. gofund.me/a310d0286
This is 100 percent correct, but it doesn't mean successful media orgs--ones which are serious about exposing and challenging harmful power structures--can't emerge from the ashes. Collaboration is coming. (We started as a measly Substack, and published a former Postie this week: thefoodsection.com)
Props to @seamushughes.bsky.social for showing how many vital stories go untold where legacy local news is kaput. One-man shops like @courtwatch.bsky.social & @thefoodsection.bsky.social can help, but we need reader support to hire reporters and obtain documents. www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...
Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.
A giant American flag that covers a full football field costs $6,900 to rent for a game.
Remember that great moment in Looking for a Ship when a sailor seethes at hearing a "storm has gone safely out to sea"? Turns out racism doesn't end at the shoreline either; TFS reports today on what Black seafood professionals have experienced in the industry: thefoodsection.com/racism-was-i...
It's annual report day at @thefoodsection.bsky.social! Brass tacks: We're ending the year with a $5K shortfall that we'd love to shrink before the start of our fifth anniversary year. Fortunately, TFS subscriptions make great gifts! thefoodsection.com/tfs-releases...
Seems like Talon could be a star on the J-school circuit. www.newsobserver.com/news/state/n...
I mostly love that he went for the peanut butter whiskey. As someone who has spent a great deal of time in ABC stores, I can assure you that his tastes line up with those of the average shopper: He just has more legs and less tolerance.
I know I'm notorious for saying every story is a food story, but dollar stores really are where rural America shops for groceries--for reasons outlined in this insightful and maddening investigation of another company picking the pockets of our nation's poorest consumers.
After shrimp fraud allegations rocked the Southern restaurant scene, @thefoodsection.bsky.social took a closer look. Our verdict? Diners can stop worrying about being hoodwinked—and start thinking about how the promotional campaign behind the scandal played out. thefoodsection.com/opening-the-...
Lucky parents! As @thefoodsection.bsky.social reported a few football seasons back, recruitment's all about wining and dining the moms. thefoodsection.com/the-mother-o...
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You can count on @poynterinstitute.bsky.social to do journalism right! Touched that @amariscastillo.bsky.social called @thefoodsection.bsky.social's ABC evaluator, mortgage broker Kodaah Hansen (pictured here 20 years ago, when he was in Big Brothers with my husband.) www.poynter.org/business-wor...
It's not every Monday that I get to use the terms "gender parity" and "blackened salmon" in the same subhed. Thanks, Steve!
As David W. Brown writes, "In the wine world, there are only two stories right now: People are drinking less wine, and climate change is destroying winemaking." Yet he's found another at their nexus: AI is assaulting the planet and undermining sensory perception. thefoodsection.com/feeling-our-...
Based on reader feedback, lots of folks weren't familiar with baker's lung before reading our West Virginia correspondent's coverage of one pepperoni roll factory's efforts to combat it. Even if you're fluent in flour dust threats, check it out! thefoodsection.com/air-of-resis...
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Decision Desk has called both of Georgia's statewide races, for public service commissioner, for Democrats.
If confirmed, this would be a really huge win for Democrats:
It'd be their first statewide win in any non-federal race since 2006!
This is independent media at its best. Tune in!
If anyone's seeking comment on the restaurants which made Michelin's American South list, my count shows I've eaten at 117 of them (but famously not Malagon; couldn't resist resurrecting this one.) www.postandcourier.com/food/restaur...
(I'd wager on a timing mixup, since our clocks confound Europeans.)
