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A collection of ideas, trend pieces, and thought-provoking personal essays.

The Almond Mom-Almond Daughter Revolution

Imagine yourself as Gwyneth Paltrow for a day: you start with a nice intermittent fast, snack on a few things that won’t “spike your blood sugar,” then it’s onto bone broth for lunch followed by a nice paleo dinner, both meals supporting “your detox.” Oh, and you make sure to do one hour of movement, or so the actress declares in a controversial clip ab…

4 years ago · 29 likes · 2 comments · Hailey Colborn

It Didn’t Happen by Accident: LA’s Original A-List Restaurant

Welcome to It Didn’t Happen By Accident, a new series in which we look back at legendary restaurants and the tactics that took them to the top. In honor of the 95th Academy Awards happening this Sunday, writer Darrell Hartman kicks things off by going deep on Romanoff’s – Hollywood’s OG celebrity hot spot. We hope you enjoy, and would lo…

4 years ago · 17 likes · Darrell Hartman

From the Kids Table: Divorce Sushi

Welcome to From The Kids Table, a personal essay series we’re beta testing. On some Sundays, we’ll ask writers to share childhood memories about dining out. For our third installment, author Katy Kelleher writes about her parents’ divorce, and how she and her father attempted to mend their strained relationship through the power of raw fis…

4 years ago · 17 likes · 1 comment · Katy Kelleher

Why James Bond Movies Are Not Action Movies

Last year, Tom Cruise made headlines by motorcycling off a cliff in Norway and BASE jumping to safety. The set piece will appear in this summer’s “Mission Impossible — Dead Reckoning.” I can already picture the headlines: “A stunt never before seen in cinema…

4 years ago · 20 likes · James Jung

From The Kid’s Table: Diners are for Regulars of All Ages

Welcome to From The Kids Table, a new, personal essay series we’re beta testing. On some Sundays we’ll ask writers to share childhood memories about dining out. For our second installment, Emily Wilson writes about the enduring power of diners by recollecting weekends at her family’s favorite Greenwich Village greasy spoon. We hope you enjoy, and would …

4 years ago · 16 likes · Emily Wilson

What the 747 Taught Us About Dressing for the Occassion

Boeing’s final 747 rolled out of the factory earlier this week, ending the commercial airliner’s storied five-decade production run as arguably the world’s most recognizable aircraft. Like PanAm and the Concorde, the 747 exemplified air travel at its jet setty zenith. Consider the details: the unmistakeable humped s…

4 years ago · 18 likes · James Jung

Great Moments in Consumer Packaging

Consumer packaging and community building matter to any brand, the more ambitious the more critical — that’s obvious. But what about the rare brand whose consumer packaging actually creates community, and vice versa? Sounds like the perfect symbiotic r…

4 years ago · 17 likes · 1 comment · James Jung

From the Kids Table: The Proustian Power of Restaurants

Welcome to From The Kids Table, a new, personal essay series we’re beta testing. On some Sundays we’ll ask writers to share childhood memories about dining out. First up is our very own James Jung, who recollects winters in New Hampshire and what dinners out in a tourist resort felt like as a townie. We hope you enjoy, and would love to hear your feedba…

4 years ago · 20 likes · 1 comment · James Jung

How Austrian Ski Resorts Nail Decentralization

Today, in honor of the first day of the first month of winter, I want to talk about two subjects near and dear to me: skiing and web3. Or! More specifically, how the former is analogous to the latter. Bear with me… For the sake of this post, when I talk about skiing, I’m talking about the resorts of the…

4 years ago · 24 likes · 2 comments · James Jung

Crypto Design is Holding Crypto Back

Today’s post comes to you courtesy of Andrew Braswell, senior product designer here at Blackbird Labs, Inc. Andrew will be using the space below to talk web3 UX design and why he’s pushing us to evolve it. We hope you enjoy it and, as ever, we’d love to hear from you: either in the comments below, on…

4 years ago · 16 likes · 2 comments · Andrew Braswell

A Case for the Single Seating Dinner

This is likely the first email you’re receiving from Blackbird’s The Supersonic, so by way of table-setting, we’ll use this space to share four things: company news, industry analysis, product announcements, and our observations about the magic of hospitality…

4 years ago · 16 likes · 3 comments · James Jung

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