Aimee Levitt's posts

Have any of you ever tried the 1,200-calorie diet? It’s something I never heard of until I read this essay by…

Much has been written about the bizarreness of the Year of Our (or someone’s) Lord 2020, and that extended to food…

Update, January 14, 2021: Remember last year when Taco Bell, in an effort to streamline its menu, ditched a whole…

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, restaurants were working hard to ensure that paying customer would have to…

Back in the early 1980s, the microwave promised to bring us all into a brave new era of convenience cooking. “Use…

Update January 13, 2021: Yesterday I tried to check the Food Timeline and saw the site was down. I panicked. And…

Over the past year or so, a quiet plot to achieve world domination has been taking place under our very noses. While…

For the past 20,000 years or so, dogs and humans have been as in love with each other as it’s possible for any two…

In the grand narrative of American politics, at least as presented by right-wing news outlets such as Fox News,…

A few months ago (or decades in COVID time), a brewery in Joe Biden’s home state of Delaware announced that it had…

Like most of you, I think, I spent most of yesterday afternoon and night huddled over my laptop, flicking between…

One of the greatest disappointments of my early life was that coffee never tasted nearly as good as it smelled.…

Sometimes a tweet can lead to actual change. Nearly a year ago, in January 2020, San Francisco restaurant owner Pim…

In the future, no one will ever eat carbs ever again. And since it’s a new year, the future has arrived! Your newly…

This is a Buddha’s hand. It’s a type of citron from south Asia with a profusion of long, slender “fingers.” It got…

The dismantling of the Christmas tree, I’m told, is the saddest part of the holiday season, even worse than awkward…

[Takes a deep breath.] Kit Kat fans of America, I have some sad news for you. There will be no new Hershey’s Kit Kat…

The takeout experience, as we’ve all learned over the past nine months, is much, much different from eating in a…

There is no food brand that is better at coming up with new flavors than Oreo—in the United States at least. Every…

Every December since 1946, the students and faculty of the University of Chicago—some of the world’s finest minds,…