Amuse Bouche

News from the world of food and wine that you might have missed this week.

It’s about time. Good advice for creating a restaurant website. Get rid of the music.
This is cool. A meditation on the connection between poetry and drinking in bars.
A recipe for Kimchi from Michelle Obama.
What you have been pining for. A restaurant that serves cod sperm.
Creepy and sick. This restaurant chain trains its workers to engage in “emotional labor”. In other words, servers must pretend to be my best friend ever.
An essay on the origins of soup.
The future of food. Speculations on how we will be eating in 35 years.
In Japan, on Valentine’s Day, only women are obliged to give gifts, often to employers and co-workers. That kinda misses the point.
On the rigors of becoming a genuine sushi chef in Japan. Is all the bullying necessary?The comments are fascinating.
And a Japanese chef is serving—mud.
Here’s a restaurant that gives families of well-behaved kids a discount.
The best idea I’ve heard in a long while. Give restaurant workers sick-leave.
The story of cocaine and soda.
On using all of your senses to eat.
In defense of Zinfandel. It doesn’t have to be a cloying fruit bomb.
And why Chardonnay haters need to get over it.