On Kraft macaroni and cheese and other adventures...
Greetings, friends!
Welcome to new subscribers. Thanks for letting me invade your inbox every once in awhile. This week I had a visitor from London — the NPR correspondent Ari Shapiro, who will soon be host of All Things Considered. He brought me 25 boxes of my beloved Kraft Mac & Cheese. Not joking. The man is a saint.
What I Read
How foodborne illnesses are way more common than I thought. Why there's a gazillion different kinds of mustard but basically only one kind of ketchup. And how perhaps there are metal fragments in Kraft Mac and Cheese (I am in denial).
As we continue to grapple with race, it's worth re-reading the 1988 essay that lists every day benefits of white privilege. I also read a lot on guns after yet another mass shooting. There's this New York Review of Books piece that was written in the wake of Sandy Hook, about America's worship of guns. Then there's Adam Gopnik in the New Yorker on how mass killings are finally starting to outrage the president.
To lighten things up, my spouse and I have both been reading a lot of Dr. Seuss, as that seems to be the phase our older daughter is in right now. Did you see they found another Seuss tale in an old box somewhere?
What I Wrote
Over on my East Asia reporting blog, I'm testing out Korean skincare products and so far, the Tony Moly brand Eye Brightening Stick has won me over. Over at my day job, I have one more piece ready for air on NPR before you won't hear me on the airwaves for awhile. It's a fun one, so I won't give it away.
Featured Food
I found these green tea-flavored donut twisty things at the Korean Dunkin Donuts. The product is called a "chewisty" but I really wanted a bacon egg and cheese sandwich that morning so this is still on my "To Eat" list.
Have you read anything, or do you have a recommendation to include in the next newsletter? Write me back!
Tootles for now,
Elise
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