Grocery store feasts, eggplant, the Jonathan Gold menu project and more!

• Ukrainian chef Olia Hercules shares family stories and recipes passed down through four generations
• Tien Nguyen opens the LA Public Library's archives to explore vintage restaurant menus and remembers Jonathan Gold's crucial essay about eating on Pico Blvd
• Vanessa Anderson — aka the Grocery Goblin — profiles grocery stores where you can grab a great meal
• Meera Sodha has low-effort, high-reward dinner ideas that use summer vegetables
• When eggplant hits farmers markets, chef Evan Algorri knows what to do with it

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You better bee-lieve it, we're talking about honeybee headaches.

• Former beekeeper Adam Novicki explains the causes of this year's historic honeybee die-off
• Sawdust covered floors, free peanuts, and stiff martinis are hallmarks of Chez Jay, which celebrates 66 years along Route 66
• Jenny Linford explores cooking, eating, and drinking through objects in the British Museum's collection
• Chef Katie Reicher of legendary San Francisco restaurant Greens shares vegetarian recipes from her repertoire
• Baker Nicole Rucker adopts a fruit tree and sets her sights on a glazed peach pie

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When everything falls apart, food is sometimes all we can cling to.

• Michael Shaikh looks to those who are preserving their food and culinary traditions in the aftermath of war, displacement, and global violence
• Lee Svitak Dean and Linda Svitak are Minnesota sisters who collaborated on a book that highlights people from vastly different circumstances all over the globe
• Toni Tipton-Martin showcases the creativity of women who bring soul to Southern cuisine
• In his new novel, Mark Kurlansky explores how an ancient cheesecake recipe and a conniving landlord change one Manhattan block forever
• Get happy, it's tomato season at the farmers market!
  
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