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Pancakes ...

Lead to fritters, lead to cocktails, lead to books, lead to movies, lead to links ... It's all one!

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Michael Ruhlman
Sep 06, 2025
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I don’t know why this hit me so hard, a young woman’s writing about making pancakes by herself—OK, fine, a 15-minute writing prompt, what do you expect?—and then … the last two lines crushed me.

On Tuesday, I began my third year teaching in NYU’s graduate journalism program, a course called “Covering the Food World.” Sixteen aspiring journalists. I was t…

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