Lost & Found
Freshman year move-in day kicked off orientation week. I had…
Technology Criticism
My Letter to Pete Wells
Pete Wells, the restaurant reviewer for The New York Times for the last twelve years, announced his retirement in the summer of 2024. He has been my favorite reviewer of the last two decades and I admired especially his final article, about how restaurants have changed since he began reviewing them. I wrote him a
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An Open Letter to the CEO of Grubhub
We used to call it "greenwashing" when big companies ran…
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In Other Words, We Lied
One of the first things I wrote when the pandemic…
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Ghost Farms, Ghost Kitchens, Ghost Towns
I wrote this follow up to my Open Letter to…
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Falling Out Of Favor
Austin loves technology. Austin loves food. Not surprisingly, Austin loves food delivery apps like Favor and UberEats. But here’s the inconvenient truth: You can’t have your cake – or your Salacho and fried kale frittters – and eat with your iPhone, too. Convenience has an ineluctable appeal — its own force field and
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Great Expectations
Constant communications and the vanishing membrane of home.
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