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Helen Rosner
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“Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches”

New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication

It’s always Free Palestine 🍉
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I had not realized fear was part of the wipes equation?????
October 24, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Three! What a trip!
October 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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It’s already there, baby
October 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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My 2yo daughter has reached deep into the Jungian collective unconscious and emerged, naturally, with a portrait of Hedonismbot
October 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Yeah sure whatever come on in
New message Someone sent you a message from Main Entrance: 'hell delivery'
October 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Wow okay huge update I searched google BOOKS and it’s from this book I absolutely had when I was a kid (very normal kid) thank you for joining me on this journey
October 14, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Featuring your standard 47-word, nine-comma sentence
(As it happens, Chateau Royale's executive chef, Brian Joung was a cook at the Quilted Giraffe back then.) Thanks, perhaps, to its insouciant, class-warface-inciting name, the beggar's purse became a sensation, helped, no doubt, by its face-melting price tag: when the item débuted, in 1981, the Quilted Giraffe charged thirty dollars apiece; by the end of the decade, it was fifty dollars. Chateau Royale's beggar's purses run thirty-nine dollars per ping-pong-ball-size bundle- depending on how you look at it, this is either a scandal or a hell of a deal.
October 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Obsessed with photographer Thea Traff’s stark, color-blocky images that run alongside my restaurant review this week. Also, tbh, very pleased by my opening graf www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
THE FOOD SCENE HOW FRENCH SHOULD A RESTAURANT BE? Chateau Royale, from the team behind Libertine, pulls out all of the Gallic stops without, for the most part, feeling ostentatious or conceited. By Helen Rosner October 12, 2025 Chateau Royale both plays its Frenchness straight and wears it lightly. Photographs by Thea Traff for The New Yorker These days, it seems like you can't flick a cigarette in this town without it smacking into a brand-new French restaurant with an old-fashioned point of view. An ocean of Le and La and L', Chez Whoever and Maison So-and-So, This or That d'Or. If, in a haze of butter and white Burgundy, you sat down to write a parody of the ur-resto for our current culinary Franco-cacophony, you could do worse than to title it "Chateau Royale," a phrase both spectacularly generic and hilariously evocative. It is also the name of a place that opened this summer, in a century-old carriage house just south of Washington Square Park, the latest spot from the restaurateur Cody Pruitt, of Libertine, and his business partner, Jacob Cohen. The semi-absurdity of the thing is on unabashed display: white-jacketed waiters? Foie gras? Escargot? Oui, oui, et oui.
October 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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I’m about to buy SO many limes
Grocery bin full of limes with a sign affixed reading “15/$2.00”
October 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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2019 ✨
"I'm usually pretty appalled by the perspective and issues that Bari has decided to use her considerable platform to amplify," Rosner wrote to me in an e-mail. "Even more, I find her apparent bafflement at being joked about and criticized-even as she has made her profession out of diminishing and criticizing people with whom she disagrees-to be cut from the same flimsy moral fabric as her public opinions."
October 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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God bless Tatler, what on earth would we do without you
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE ABDICATION OF GRAND DUKE HENRI OF LUXEMBOURG
October 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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If I posted something so dumb that Dril himself showed up in my comments to dunk on me, I would simply walk directly into the sea
theeblackgypsy 1d Hot take: as an extremely self aware person I don't benefit from therapy. dril 17h i produce my own therapy by thinking really hard using my 145 iq
September 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Bless you @karenmcgrane.bsky.social
The New Yorker begs to differ: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/yes-i-use-a-hair-dryer-to-make-roast- chicken Archive link: http://archive.today/2025.01.03-064233/https:// www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/ yes-i-use-a-hair-dryer-to-make-roast-chicken Little did the skeptics know that, in blow-drying my chicken, I was standing on the shoulders of giants. I am far from the first person to bring the device into the kitchen. Blow-dryers are used by pitmasters in South Carolina, yakitori chefs in Japan, and kebab cooks in Brooklyn.... And, as for crisping the skin on a bird, the legendary cookbook author Marcella Hazan calls for a six-to-eight-minute session with a handheld hair dryer in her recipe for crisp-skinned roast duck, which first appeared in her 1978 book "More Classics of Italian Cooking." ① 51
September 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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STOLEN VALOR
r/Cooking • 160 people here ... I blow dry my chicken before roasting and my des... 5.4k upvotes • 697 comments natalietest234 • 17h Uhhh using a blow dryer on raw chicken is a terrible idea. That's how you get chicken juices and salmonella all over everything. Just pat it with paper towels or leave it uncovered in the fridge for an hour or two. ... 1,871 khaotickk • 15h Sammi1224 • 16h I definitely did not have "blow drying raw chicken" on my 2025 Bingo card. Hopefully OP follows your suggestions and listens to you. ••• 6110
September 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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I really admire Maier’s work though, so I’m less mad about it. I think about this coffee spoon anecdote on a weekly basis.
signature, and its best-selling items. In everything he designs, Maier shows an acute sensitivity to those infinitesimal irritants which most people can overlook. For instance, the coffee saucer at the Bulgari Hotel, in Milan, where he used to stay. "It drove me crazy," he told me. "Every morning. You lifted up the cup and by the time you put it down-because the saucer was too curved up— the spoon had always slid down." With a certain fierce pleasure, he pantomimed the entire act. "Now, in this hand you hold the newspaper, and with this hand you lift the coffee up and have a sip, and you want to put it down and you put it crooked on the saucer because this spoon is underneath. You drip half the coffee over, so that means you have to put the paper down, you have to take the glasses off, pick up the spoon—" He threw up his hands. "I mean, hello! Whoever designed that should have designed it right."
September 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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There’s always a restaurant angle
September 13, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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My 2yo tried fish sticks before she ever tried chicken nuggets, so she calls chicken nuggets “chicken fish sticks.” Today this food product entered our home and does anyone have contact info for Baudrillard
September 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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At the @newyorker.com Festival this year I’ll be in conversation with the LEGEND Danny Meyer — it’ll be a hell of a lot of fun. Tix here: nyer.cm/zCmbo30
THE NEW YORKER FESTIAL OCTOBER 24-26, N.Y.C. Presented by Explore Charleston Danny Meyer talks with Helen Rosner
September 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Oh thank god I documented it
September 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Oh thank god it’s absolutely a thing
September 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Sent Jim to the French grocery store to get sausages to grill for dinner and some absolute MONSTER of a butcher tried to send him home with “packaged saucissons” which per the photo he texted me turned out to be andouillette
Screenshot of texts sent in such a state of emergency that I made many typos: DO NOT VET [GET] THE PACKAGEDONES. DO NOT DO NOT. ANDOUILLETTE IS EVIL SAUSAGE.
August 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Me but instead of Meg White it’s DVD rips of Shining Time Station
August 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Obviously yes you should read Andrea Long Chu’s latest for all the usual reasons (thrillingly blistering assessment of worthy target) — but these two somewhat standalone paragraphs exploring the true nature of American free speech left me absolutely gobsmacked www.vulture.com/article/post...
There is, I think, a compelling case to be made that the American political tradition thinks of free speech not as the basis of a free press but as an instance of it. A newspaper is not a giant person; a person is more like a little newspaper. If this is so, then the vast majority of Americans have low budgets, limited circulation, and few dedicated readers, even in the age of social media. In other words, speech is a resource, not an inalienable property, and as such it is subject to the same regimes of theft, privatization, and accumulation that have swallowed up the labor of workers and the fruits of the earth. We have heard much lately about when free speech ends: the moment when protesting for Palestine becomes grounds for detention or deportation in the eyes of the police state, for instance. Less often asked, but equally important, is when speech begins. Did instance. Less often asked, but equally important, is when speech begins. Did Cotton's speech begin the moment that the Times published his op-ed? During the editorial process? When Bennet's deputies pitched the idea? At what point, in other words, did the ordinary flow of money, labor, and influence through civil society stop? Well, never. To say that Cotton was too important not to publish is to say that he enjoyed a certain social position that deserved the paper's famously discriminating attention. From the start, Cotton had more than free speech: He had actual speech, the very thing that protesters were being denied all across the country. One of the principal goals of the protests of 2020 was therefore to seize the means of expression: protesters were not exercising their right to speak freely so much as they were trying to amass a form of social influence that could meaningfully compete at a national level. In other words, they were starting a newspaper; what Williams hates is that people started reading it. The fact is that telling a voiceless person they have free speech is like telling a poor person they have freedom of money: Nice work if you can get it! Williams might respond that a person who finds their ability to speak curtailed does not thereby lose their capacity to think. "Expression is the exterior form and, if I can express myself so, the body of thought, but it is not thought itself, writes Tocqueville. It is seductive, I know, and highly flattering to those of us who write for a living, to suppose that thought "makes sport of all tyrannies," as Tocqueville puts it. (At least the slave, Buckley had the gall to imply, had retained his freedom of thought under the whip.) But a thought without expression, like a soul without a body, is just as good as dead. Surely we cannot comfort ourselves with the idea that the brutal neck restraint that kept George Floyd from breathing nonetheless could not keep him from thinking. For in the end, we know it did.
August 5, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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These are "easy" "unimpressive" "everyday" recipes—iceberg salad, slow-cooked chicken stew, roasted carrots with yogurt—but they feel special, elevated because of how they're plated & garnished. Beauty is a real & big aspect of gastronomic pleasure!

📷 Marcus Nilsson (salad) & Alex Lau (other 2)
August 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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They make you HAPPY fuck you
NYT headline: Mangoes are known as the 'king of fruits. What are their health benefits?
July 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM