How small restaurants are navigating the labor shortage

From forgoing their own salary to giving raises, small business owners are finding ways to hire and retain their staff.

Growing up on Los Angeles’s Black barbecue 

In the 1970s and 1980s, zig-zagging across the city to pick up food for summer barbecues became a rite of passage for one writer.

Average hourly pay for restaurant and supermarket workers has topped $15 

The pay hike is a step in the right direction, but it’s still not considered a living wage in many parts of the U.S., especially not for families.

Get a dozen doughnuts when friends come over

Fancy cheese boards are nice, but trust me on this: Everyone will go for the doughnuts.

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A French bakery championing a centuries-old dessert opens its U.S. flagship in NYC 

The merveilleux, a meringue-based dessert, takes center stage at the North American flagship of Aux Merveilleux de Fred.

Dave Matthews dines on the Chicago River 17 years after his tour bus famously befouled it

RPM Seafood is about a half mile from the 2004 incident.

How to help address climate change, from your kitchen

Even renters with gas stoves can make meaningful changes now.

Where to find thin crust pizza topped with tomato sauce and mozzarella, premium pastrami on rye, spicy cumin lamb noodles, and more.

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For this month's Eater wine club, Scarlett Carrasco Polanco of Keep It Grand in Minneapolis has selected wildly different-tasting wines made from the same family of grapes. Each wine comes from a different country — South Africa, Australia, France, or Spain.

Expect to sip a spectrum of exciting flavors — from aromatic and fruity, kind of like a Dole fruit cup, to tart and citrusy, similar to a fruit salad made out of grapefruit.

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