or…Why Nobody Knows Your Order Anymore What happened to the local diner, coffee shop, and neighborhood deli? A Behind the Slicer essay about community, comfort food, hospitality, and why local restaurants still matter. Social media can be great...we all know it. We connect, learn, find entertainment, be productive...it's why we use it almost every single day. But a question recently has be rising in my mind. Can you be a regular on an app? At first, the answer feels obvious. Of course you...

Why is food so personal? The pressure of the perfect matzoh ball soup is real I was talking with a writer friend recently and she asked me a question that I haven’t quite been able to shake. Why is food so personal? At first, I gave what felt like a perfectly reasonable answer. Family. Tradition. Culture. The sort of answer you give when somebody asks a thoughtful question and you’re trying not to sound like you’ve spent an unhealthy amount of time thinking about matzoh ball soup. But the...

Everybody argues about the cheese. Falls Church's Best Cheesesteak has some thoughts about cheesesteaks Whiz. Cooper Sharp. American. Provolone. Fried onions. No onions. Ketchup, if your goal is to make somebody from Philadelphia physically ill. The internet has turned the cheesesteak into a bizarre form of food cosplay where people obsess over finding the one magical ingredient that unlocks “authenticity.” But that’s the great cheesesteak lie. Philly Cheesesteak Authenticity does not come...