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Hooray, you’re on the list. Take this buzzer, stand across the street in that puddle, and wait for a little shock. The estimated wait time is six hours. And don’t be surprised if we’re not here when your table is called. We could be anywhere at any time. However, we’re usually near the morgue.

What’s our name? It depends. Our food truck is called Eat Pray Cramp Vomit. Our counter at the food hall is called Le Coli. Our online delivery service is called Dysentery. Our insufferable pop-up? It’s difficult to pronounce. It’s all consonants and diacritical marks. Along with some gagging and sputtering.

No, no, we don’t kill our patrons. Not intentionally. Although we have had some losses. Who hasn’t? Unlike other food collectives, we’ve learned to embrace our mortality rate. It’s part of our ambience. Our joie de vivre! Chef Claire says that a high propensity for death elevates the palate. Until it doesn’t.

When West Midlands Police announced that Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters would be banned from their clash with Aston Villa, our establishment immediately decried this as an attack on Jews. But as a Jew who attends football weekly, I know this is a lie. This is about the British Government using Jews as a shield — […]

Twenty-four crystal champagne flutes: I love entertaining, so these beautiful champagne flutes are a must-have for the elegant sit-down dinner parties I’ll be hosting. I considered asking for thirty-six, but decided to cut down the guest list. Everyone loves being invited to an exclusive event.

Ten years later: In the attic, wrapped tightly in the very bubble wrap they came in.

Salad spinner: My husband and I will cook and enjoy nutritious meals together. A healthy lifestyle leads to a healthy marriage.

Ten years later: This gadget stays front and center in the kitchen cabinet, because the inner basket works as a perfect strainer to drain the kids’ Kraft macaroni and cheese.

His and hers coffee mugs: A cornerstone of marital bliss, these mugs will become a staple of our morning routine. We’ll sit together in our sun-drenched brunch nook and enjoy the quiet early hours together, doing the crossword and watching a family of foxes frolic in our backyard.

‘If they weren’t there, to whom would I talk?’ In a support group, ‘voice-hearers’ share their unique, inward experiences

- Directed by Tristan Thil

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The evolution of tarot cards through the centuries, from a game for the Italian elite to the fortune-tellers’ toolkit

- by Aeon Video

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Upgrade your ability to recall dates, names or other details with an ancient trick of the memory trade: the ‘method of loci’

- by Lynne Kelly

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How confidential informants like LeBron Gaither, recruited by police as a teen and killed by a drug dealer, are seen by the criminal system as disposable.

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On a grey and blustery day outside the Old Bailey Court in October 1989, Gerry Conlon, Carole Richardson, Paddy Armstrong, and Paul Hill walked free, almost fifteen years to the day of their wrongful conviction. Known as the Guildford Four, they were sentenced to life in jail on October 22nd 1975, after being found guilty […]