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Food, cooking, and places to eat. Influencer filter: we only feature something once it has held up for 3+ weeks or has a practitioner behind it (chef, tailor, guide, local writer). Every source is labeled for disclosure (independent / sponsored / affiliate), and a Signal Check analysis says how much of the buzz is paid or purely aesthetic.

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Issue 2 · Friday, October 2, 2026 · see the latest

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Derek Thompson on the decline of Americans hosting each other for dinner

The charts.

Derek Thompson charts how the share of Americans who host or attend a monthly dinner party halved between 1975 and 1998 and asks what hosting looks like now.

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Derek ThompsonYou Are No Longer Invited to Dinner ↗ Hacker NewsDiscussion: Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over ↗

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Bowling Alone

After exploring You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner, the book it builds on is Bowling Alone.

Robert Putnam’s 2000 book on the decline of American social capital since 1950, the study this piece updates.

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California grape growers can’t sell their harvest as wine sales fall

KQED talks to growers in the vineyards; the numbers show how fast drinking habits are reshaping farmland.

Wine sales have fallen more than 20% over five years, and growers have taken roughly a quarter of California’s vineyards out of production. KQED reports Lodi-area growers leaving grapes unpicked and tearing out vines for almonds, pistachios and olives.

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KQEDCalifornia Farmers Are Struggling to Sell Grapes as Demand for Wine Drops Independent ↗ Hacker NewsDiscussion: California farmers are struggling to sell grapes ↗

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California wine

After exploring California Farmers Are Struggling to Sell Grapes as Demand for Wine Drops, for how the industry got this big, read California wine.

The history of California winemaking since Spanish missionaries planted vines in the late 1700s.

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Nine restaurant dishes Food & Wine editors loved in September

Food & Wine’s editors list nine restaurant dishes they loved in September.

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Food & WineNine restaurant dishes Food & Wine editors loved in September ↗

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