The Bite

Issue Nine: Markets

Issue Nine: Markets

May 1, 2022 |

For the love of markets—not the open-air kind, but the neighborhood ones that specialize, the small-town ones that act as beacons and gathering places, the ones that embody the spirit and character of faraway places.

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Books, Coffee & Other Delights

Books, Coffee & Other Delights

Apr 15, 2022 |

Briana Olson writes, “And what better place to kill time than in a bookstore? Isn’t it the very act of killing time that brings us into time, that, like boredom, incites our awareness of it, inviting the eyes to study the shifting panes of afternoon light as they fall on the faces of the people in line to buy coffee?”

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Issue Six: Sauce

Issue Six: Sauce

Feb 18, 2022 |

An extra drop of this or that, one more degree of temperature or an added pulse, a certain motion of whisk or a pinch of a particular type of sea salt, a few flakes of uniquely terroir-ed mountain-grown chile, the famous bead of sweat that falls into the pot.

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Issue Five: Diners

Issue Five: Diners

Jan 18, 2022 |

This one is a slice of life from around our state. It’s a slice of pie and a belly warmer. It’s waffles at midnight, afternoon huevos rancheros, and all-day conversation amid clanks and clatters from the kitchen. It’s an open stool beckoning you to come in from the cold. It’s an homage to diners.

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