How did we get here?
20 years ago, if you had gone to the twenty- and thirty-somethings of a major American city and told them that in just two decades, they would find Saturdays and Sundays beholden to a forced social...
View ArticleThe Origins of Brunch
Lots of interesting information in this 1998 article by William Grimes, written back at the beginning of his tenure as the NYT food critic. First, there's this: ''Any restaurant that's open for brunch...
View ArticleThe Dangers of Brunch: Kelly's Story
Reader KD contributes this harrowing tale of a fateful two-brunch ordeal one December weekend day:Personally, I think the social pressures around brunch have become downright dangerous. Allow me to...
View ArticleA Taxonomy of Brunches I: Relationships
The meeting of romantic relationships and brunch is a messy business. Consider the ugly implications of brunch for relationships at various stages of development:One night stand brunch.O most accursed...
View ArticleA Silent Majority?
Check out a must-read column from Brooklyn Paper writer Mike McLaughlin last September here. McLaughlin pulls no punches in his indictment of the dread meal: The venerable weekend tradition is a...
View ArticleGawker Breaks the Silence
Wow: a passionate anti-brunch piece from Adrian Chen on Gawker this weekend. Punches are not pulled: It is Saturday and not much news is happening. Many people are lazing around, napping off last...
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