this "tartine" is just . . . hummus and tomato on a piece of toast: https://t.co/GS85FVdfjA

— Anne Helen Petersen (@annehelen) August 3, 2016

1. “Every coffee place looks the same,” Schwarzmann says. The new cafe resembles all the other coffee shops Foursquare suggests, whether in Odessa, Beijing, Los Angeles, or Seoul: the same raw wood tables, exposed brick, and hanging Edison bulbs.”: Kyle Chayka takes on the creeping sameness spread by the global middle-class.
2. On the “bourgeois nostalgia” that pervades the food-reform movement.
3. If you’re the sort of person left unimpressed by a backyard pizza oven, then it’s time to build a compost-powered hot tub.
4. The plan of two spies in the 1910s to solve America’s food crisis with hippopotamus meat.
5. Legendary film critic Roger Ebert’s deep love for the rice cooker

1. Inside the underground economy propping up New York’s food carts
2. Continuing my weekly coverage of food from the bogs, here’s how juice companies perpetuate the myth that cranberry juice prevents urinary tract infection.
3. The history of food poisoning.
4. Japan’s oldest single malt whisky has been released.
5. Ruth Reichl admits that the timing in a delicious meatball recipe is pure fiction.. Nothing is sacred.

Food blogging is dead (again), so it’s probably as good a time as any to give up the ghost and put on the flesh.

1. My dream book idea was once reviewing every revolving restaurant on earth. I was going to call it “Sit in This and Rotate”. Here’s Heather Wells Peterson’s take on the history of eating while rotating.
2. War Is Boring’s Benedetta Argentieri traverses the thousand kilometre border with the Islamic state to present a culinary guide to the Kurdish front line.
3. Old cow is the new black
4. Fellow white people, here’s how not to do travel writing.
5. “Theoretically the stuff is still edible — but we wouldn’t say it’s advisable” is probably advice I wouldn’t take if I discovered ten kilograms of bog butter.