Ellen
elcush.bsky.social
Ellen
@elcush.bsky.social
landlord, mommy, public intellectual

https://www.theatlantic.com/author/ellen-cushing/
More than half of adults under 45 use delivery at least once a week, and 13 percent use it once a day. I wrote about what that means for restaurants, restaurateurs, cities, and food: www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
The Innovation That’s Killing Restaurant Culture
Delivery has turned America into a nation of order-inners.
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October 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I wrote about what food delivery has done to restaurants … it’s not good …. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
How Delivery Destroyed American Restaurants
We’ve become a nation of order-inners. Eating will never be the same.
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October 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
last episode of our mets podcast for the season! miss you already <3 open.spotify.com/episode/4Yef...
59. Season Finale, RIP and LGM
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October 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I went to the Tesla Diner! It bummed me out

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September 22, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Eleven Madison Park, once named the world’s best restaurant, is no longer vegan—a sign of how Americans can’t quit meat, and of fine-dining hubris, @elcush.bsky.social writes:
Turns Out Meat Is Still the Ultimate Luxury
After four years of vegan cuisine, the fine-dining stalwart Eleven Madison Park is cooking animals again.
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August 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Transporting human bodies through the air at hundreds of miles an hour has always been somewhat unpleasant, @elcush.bsky.social writes in Time-Travel Thursdays.
Has Air Travel Ever Been Good?
Not really.
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July 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
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The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
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July 15, 2025 at 5:31 AM
new york's only baseball podcast turns 50 :)

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50. The TRUTH About the New York Mets
Hits Different · Episode
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July 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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classic @elcush.bsky.social on Prime Day:

"The holiday was invented by a corporation in honor of itself, to enrich itself. It has existed for six years and is observed by tens of millions of people worldwide. I hope you are spending it with your loved ones."

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Cancel Amazon Prime
The subscription service is Amazon’s greatest—and most terrifying—invention.
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July 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
some example questions to get you going: What's wrong with John Fisher? How did you two get so smart and fun? Why is Pete Alonso so strong? How many people could he carry out of a burning building? And so on and so forth
Why don’t women play professional baseball? Why do players always seem to be chewing on something? How could climate change alter the sport?

Tomorrow on Reddit, @kait.bsky.social and @elcush.bsky.social are answering your questions about the forces shaping the game: bit.ly/3GCqV3b
July 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
what a big-hearted, big-brained, brave, searching, humane, lucid story by @bernstein.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/m...
My Father Prosecuted History’s Crimes. Then He Died in One.
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May 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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More brands have been offering the choice to opt out of Mother’s Day marketing emails. The trend is kind of brilliant—and also patently absurd, @elcush.bsky.social writes:
The Absurdity—And Genius—of the Mother’s Day Opt-Out Email
This is what happens when brands try to be your friend.
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May 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Space tourism is, at best, folly—silly, spectacularly wasteful, pointless by definition. And Katy Perry was the perfect celebrity to do it, @elcush.bsky.social writes:
The Perfect Pop Star for a Dumb Stunt
Katy Perry is exactly the kind of celebrity to go to space.
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April 15, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Call your senator or donate to a food pantry or throw a brick or something and then as a reward you can read about Hormbles Chormbles www.eater.com/24408067/hor...
WTF Is a Hormbles Chormbles?
A new chocolate bar is trying to disrupt candy by calling it the weirdest thing possible.
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April 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
thinking about this diva www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...
April 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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The internet is filled with dishwasher-loading advice. So why are so many people still arguing about how to do it right? @elcush.bsky.social investigates:
The Absolutely, Positively Correct Way to Load Your Dishwasher
The internet is filled with advice. So why are people still arguing about this?
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April 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
new york's only anti-math baseball podcast is back for seaosn 2, baby!

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37. [Brandon Nimmo Tongue-Out Emoji] Mets Are Back!
Hits Different · Episode
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March 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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kaitlyn went to baseball camp www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Why Aren’t Women Allowed to Play Baseball?
Women have always loved America’s pastime. It has never loved them back.
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March 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Kosher salt is just big salt, @elcush.bsky.social writes. How did it become so popular?
The Great Salt Shake-Up
Why has kosher salt replaced table salt in American pantries?
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March 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Excited (again) to see this paper finally in (pre)print!

We did single-cell sequencing on our TSC model organoids and observed strong signatures of reactive astrogliosis (neat)- then we looked at resected patient brain tissue and saw the same thing! (More neat!)

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
mTORC1 activation drives astrocyte reactivity in cortical tubers and brain organoid models of TSC
Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC) is a genetic neurodevelopmental disorder associated with early onset epilepsy, intellectual disability and neuropsychiatric disorders. A hallmark of the disorder is co...
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March 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Americans Need to Party More
We’re not doing it as much as we used to. You can be the change we need.
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January 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
the people who made this happen changed lives and I am unbelievably grateful for them :)
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December 20, 2024 at 9:43 PM
i love to ask the big questions like: is panettone .... good? www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
The Luxury Makeover of the Worst Pastry on Earth
How panettone, the once-reviled Italian Christmas treat, became a high-end commodity
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December 19, 2024 at 3:07 PM