Meghan McCarron
@meghanmccarron.bsky.social
Freelance journalist covering food & culture. Work in NYT, Atlantic, Bon Appetit. Also a science fiction writer. Recent work in Lightspeed, Nebula & World Fantasy finalist. I live in Los Angeles.
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Hi! My name is Meghan McCarron. I'm a freelance journalist covering food and culture, and I also write weird, queer fiction. I live in Los Angeles. This newsletter is largely about cooking and eating...
buttondown.com
I write a monthly newsletter about cooking and eating basically for the fun of it. I'm going to send out another one tomorrow, if you'd like to sign up! buttondown.com/meghanmccarron
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Back on Geek’s Guide to argue about Alien Earth with @matthewkressel.net and Andrea Kail. So many things I loved! So many things that made me crazy! geeksguideshow.com/2025/11/08/g...
GGG#606: Alien: Earth Season 1 Review
[YouTube] [Apple] [Spotify] [Download] Andrea Kail, Matthew Kressel, and Anthony Ha join us to discuss Season 1 of the FX series Alien: Earth, a prequel to the classic films Alien and Aliens. Pleas…
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November 13, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Back on Geek’s Guide to argue about Alien Earth with @matthewkressel.net and Andrea Kail. So many things I loved! So many things that made me crazy! geeksguideshow.com/2025/11/08/g...
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I started a newsletter, it's very very naval gazey in a way that might get literal, it will only exist for one week, here is the first one: dressedlikeme.beehiiv.com/p/i-dressed-...
I Dressed Like Me for 10 Years: Day 1
The "Big Shirt"
dressedlikeme.beehiiv.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I started a newsletter, it's very very naval gazey in a way that might get literal, it will only exist for one week, here is the first one: dressedlikeme.beehiiv.com/p/i-dressed-...
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I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee.
I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them
I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them
New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
November 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee.
I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them
I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them
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"School officials showed agents the teacher’s employment documents, including a work permit, but agents nonetheless detained her."
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Armed ICE officers chase teacher into preschool in Chicago
The arrest appears to be one of the first in which immigration officers entered school grounds as part of an enforcement operation during Trump’s second administration.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"School officials showed agents the teacher’s employment documents, including a work permit, but agents nonetheless detained her."
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
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November 5, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Proud of all the Angelenos who are like “we needed that” about the Dodgers championship, as if it were rain
November 2, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Proud of all the Angelenos who are like “we needed that” about the Dodgers championship, as if it were rain
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I hope they turn Waymo off in LA…
November 2, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I hope they turn Waymo off in LA…
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Mary Blair's concept art for Disney's Sleepy Hollow adaptation.
October 31, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Mary Blair's concept art for Disney's Sleepy Hollow adaptation.
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the worst elder millennials you know are going to experience the worst hangovers of their lives this holiday season. and i think that's beautiful
October 31, 2025 at 8:52 PM
the worst elder millennials you know are going to experience the worst hangovers of their lives this holiday season. and i think that's beautiful
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Happy Halloween! 🐈⬛ 🎃
📷 “Casting call for black cats to star in Roger Corman movie in Los Angeles, Calif., 1961”
Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection, @uclalibrary.bsky.social Special Collections: ucla.in/35P6sSl
📷 “Casting call for black cats to star in Roger Corman movie in Los Angeles, Calif., 1961”
Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection, @uclalibrary.bsky.social Special Collections: ucla.in/35P6sSl
October 31, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Happy Halloween! 🐈⬛ 🎃
📷 “Casting call for black cats to star in Roger Corman movie in Los Angeles, Calif., 1961”
Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection, @uclalibrary.bsky.social Special Collections: ucla.in/35P6sSl
📷 “Casting call for black cats to star in Roger Corman movie in Los Angeles, Calif., 1961”
Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection, @uclalibrary.bsky.social Special Collections: ucla.in/35P6sSl
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Even though I've heard "Golden" 300,000 times (at minimum), I didn't realize that EJAE was the co-writer of the song, not just the vocalist. Great interview, she seems fascinating www.wired.com/story/how-k-...
How ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Star EJAE Topped the Charts
Kids everywhere know her voice—if not her name. WIRED talks to the former SM trainee about her rise to global superstardom with her hit song “Golden.”
www.wired.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Even though I've heard "Golden" 300,000 times (at minimum), I didn't realize that EJAE was the co-writer of the song, not just the vocalist. Great interview, she seems fascinating www.wired.com/story/how-k-...
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In NYC, recess sometimes looks like preschoolers excitedly waiting for the Franklin Avenue Shuttle to pass underneath them.
October 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
In NYC, recess sometimes looks like preschoolers excitedly waiting for the Franklin Avenue Shuttle to pass underneath them.
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CITY CENTER: 104 W MAGNOLIA ST STE 100, BELLINGHAM WA 98225-9997
October 30, 2025 at 2:09 AM
CITY CENTER: 104 W MAGNOLIA ST STE 100, BELLINGHAM WA 98225-9997
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Extraordinary reporting from Emily Baumgaertner Nunn on the malignant criminal network that turns girls in foster care into prostitutes on L.A.'s Figueroa Street -- and why the police can't stop it. Everyone should read this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/m...
Can Anyone Rescue the Trafficked Girls of L.A.’s Figueroa Street?
www.nytimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Extraordinary reporting from Emily Baumgaertner Nunn on the malignant criminal network that turns girls in foster care into prostitutes on L.A.'s Figueroa Street -- and why the police can't stop it. Everyone should read this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/m...
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I wrote about $20 smoothie culture and the "ACTUALLY those smoothies aren't even healthy" reaction and how they're two sides of the same diet culture coin www.bestfoodblog.net/whats-the-po...
What’s the Point of a $20 Smoothie?
It’s not about nutrition.
www.bestfoodblog.net
October 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I wrote about $20 smoothie culture and the "ACTUALLY those smoothies aren't even healthy" reaction and how they're two sides of the same diet culture coin www.bestfoodblog.net/whats-the-po...
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"This has bred resentment and reaction; no matter what these chefs do, the specter of butter chicken is always hovering. What would it take to banish it? Or should that even be the goal?"
As restaurants serving Indian cuisines continue to become some of the hottest reservations across the country, I wrote for @slate.com about their uneasy relationship to butter chicken. Or really, their uneasy relationship to what butter chicken has come to represent. slate.com/life/2025/10...
Many Indian Chefs Want to Banish One Beloved Dish From Their Menus. Getting Rid of It Isn’t So Easy.
How did such a “basic” stew become so controversial?
slate.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
"This has bred resentment and reaction; no matter what these chefs do, the specter of butter chicken is always hovering. What would it take to banish it? Or should that even be the goal?"
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here take the idol you must not let it fall into their hands
October 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
here take the idol you must not let it fall into their hands
Wrote a newsletter about the terrible prison of PROTEIN, which I have trapped myself in YET AGAIN buttondown.com/meghanmccarr...
Protein Is A Trap And I Have Fallen Into It, or Second Breakfast #19
Hello! This is Meghan McCarron, and you're reading my newsletter, Second Breakfast. If you no longer want to receive it, you can unsubscribe here. Down down...
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October 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Wrote a newsletter about the terrible prison of PROTEIN, which I have trapped myself in YET AGAIN buttondown.com/meghanmccarr...
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Good news. From a low of 22 captive birds to over 560, many flying free in four states plus Mexico.
California condor range expanding into the Bay Area and Santa Cruz Mountains, further south into Santa Barbara County too. 🪶 www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/20/f...
October 23, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Good news. From a low of 22 captive birds to over 560, many flying free in four states plus Mexico.
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this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread
October 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread
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This is way too inside baseball to be popular with anyone outside the booktok community, but am kicking around idea of writer who tries to capitalize on "fanfic with serial numbers not-really filed off" trend and sells a completely original novel by insisting it is actually Dramione or Reylo.
October 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
This is way too inside baseball to be popular with anyone outside the booktok community, but am kicking around idea of writer who tries to capitalize on "fanfic with serial numbers not-really filed off" trend and sells a completely original novel by insisting it is actually Dramione or Reylo.
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“But mostly we serve tacos. Tacos from every nation. Ugandan tacos. Burmese tacos. Yugoslav tacos. What’s inside the tacos? Chef’s choice. Just don’t expect rice and beans. If you want Mexican, order the crepe.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/peo...
People Are Dying to Eat at Our Insufferable Pop-Up Restaurant
Hooray, you’re on the list. Take this buzzer, stand across the street in that puddle, and wait for a little shock. The estimated wait time is six h...
www.mcsweeneys.net
October 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
“But mostly we serve tacos. Tacos from every nation. Ugandan tacos. Burmese tacos. Yugoslav tacos. What’s inside the tacos? Chef’s choice. Just don’t expect rice and beans. If you want Mexican, order the crepe.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/peo...
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this would piss me off so much if I was the brain surgeon www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
Woman plays clarinet during four-hour brain surgery
Denise Bacon, 65, underwent deep brain stimulation (DBS) as Parkinson's Disease has affected her ability to walk, swim, dance and play her instrument.
www.bbc.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
this would piss me off so much if I was the brain surgeon www.bbc.com/news/videos/...