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Never fails to amaze me how nymag consistently hits it out of the park
This past Valentine’s Day, 71-year-old Brad Reese, proud grandson of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups inventor H. B. Reese, posted a scathing open letter to the manager of corporate brand and editorial at Hershey, accusing the company of unforgivably altering many Reese’s products by replacing real chocolate with compound chocolate — basically using vegetable oils instead of cocoa butter to lower costs and replacing real peanut butter with “peanut-butter-style crèmes.”
“And Reese wasn’t alone in feeling like everything was getting worse,” writes Rachel Handler. “Everyone in my life I spoke to agreed that something was amiss, that Reese’s — and commercial chocolate in general — didn’t taste the way it used to.”
Handler would spend the next several months tumbling down a chocolate vortex, encountering dozens of eccentric characters, all disagreeing about the fundamental question of what chocolate even is and who it should be for.
“I learned that — not to sound like a LinkedIn guy — what’s going on with chocolate is a parable for the modern world. That at this particularly bleak end stage of capitalism, everything we once treasured has or will lose its essential essence and MrBeast will always be involved somehow.”
For our cover story, Handler takes a deep dive into the molten belly of the chocolate world. Read it in full: nymag.visitlink.me/vKKky_
i wrote about ripped-to-hell t-shirts, men wanting to be SLUTS, and why beat-up t-shirts are the new LUXURY maxberlinger.substack.com/p/…
anyway i wrote about all the hot politicians for vogue vogue.com/article/handsome-p…
anna wintour wrote about the new vogue portraits book ... it is so cool that all these images ran in vogue!!! vogue.com/article/a-first-lo…
How it feels to live in the hamlet of Brooklyn heights where there is an Issey Miyake Montessori school one block away from a magic shop that has a $15k bird named Molly that is *not* for sale
Embarrassed to say I have not read any Anne Carson but I have discovered the lady knows how to get a fit off
this is so fun!
We’ve always shown you what comes next. But for our 50th anniversary, we’re looking back at the icons, innovations, and ideas that changed how we live robbreport.com/p/legends-of-…
