Issue 61 — An Awfully Brown Salad, Grocery Store Sushi + A Dinner Party
Doing Sober October (sorta)
‘If Jesus was alive today he would have turned water into Ghia.’
I loved Katie Stone’s latest piece I Don’t Drink, for Plant Based. It inspired me to lay low for a while (or at least until my birthday later this month.)
It’s pretty convenient timing, considering I already had a bottle of Ghia Le Fizz in the fridge (which is stunning btw) - and a bunch of De Soi just arrived at my door.
I’m set.
Happy Monday! Let’s get into it…
Bites
Pepsi acquired Siete Foods for $1.2 Billion
‘Seriously doubt at this purchasing point, Pepsi will fuck up the brand by messing with their formulation. Trying to see the positive in this acquisition and what it means for Latinos everywhere—during Hispanic Heritage month to see a win like this! ❤️ @sietefoods you deserve this’ —
Ina Garten’s Memoir is out — the audiobook is free with Spotify premium (which I recently realized I had!) Loved this interview Ina did with Matt for Taste.
Another Taste Pod I loved this week — Casey Lewis on how Gen-Z Really Thinks About Food 🎧
Merit Beauty is on Alfred’s Coffee Sleeves for October. ‘A Beauty Routine less complicated than your coffee order.’ Solid copy — always thought this marketing tactic was smart.
Starbucks partnered with AG1 on 2 new ‘nutritional blends’ — Snaxshot called it the ‘poor man’s Erewhon smoothie’ — debuting In select cities. (not LA)
Now serving at Courage Bagels, Maru Coffee. No partnership has ever felt more right. 🥯☕️
Olipop + Poppi are both hiring for quality and compliance roles to meet regulations, ensure manufacturing quality and standards, and support brand claims.
Logan tried all the Erewhon Smoothies so you don’t have to. Katy Perry scored higher than Hailey Bieber. He must have filmed this right before Salt + Stone’s drink dropped (which I read as Salt & Straw like 3x)...
In Issue 58, I gushed about Highland Park’s new wine bar Sam’s Place and mentioned Emily,
was working on a piece — it’s LIVE. Austin wrote about it too. And I’m pretty sure a reel is about to drop on Infatuation…Silver Lake Lounge is now Well Wishes. Looks like they’re taking design notes from Dada.
Anderson Paak opened a 70’s style Jazz and R+B Supper Club in WeHo with the Houston Brothers. The food menu feels very of the time: crudo, yuzu sauces, cae sal, chicken tenders...
Danny D’s Mudshop is now an actual shop in East Hollywood.
Justine Snacks made a cookbook.
Canyon Coffee has entered the bev wall.
7UP is dropping a limited Shirley Temple for the holidays.
Fly By Jing dropped noods.
I didn’t realize gen-z was running Kerrygold’s social.
Omar Apollo’s hot sauce is at Taco Bell for a limited time.
Brooklyn Beckham also dropped a hot sauce…
Goldburger took over Burgerlord’s shuttered Chinatown spot.
The Habit’s new billboard is a huge fuck you to In-N-Out.
Loved this post on ‘3 Annoyingly Simple Salads to Make This Week’. I actually might make one.
Here’s Bowen Yang on the current state of vegetables and produce.
In case you didn’t know, tomatoes give themself stitches 🥲
Some people meditate. I watch Aimee’s farmer’s market hauls.
Infatuation charted LA’s free table bread — Cheesecake Factory’s brown bread ‘Chaotic Evil’?! I beg to differ….
Bob Baker Marionette Theater is in LA to Stay. They celebrated with a new marquee and an open house last weekend. Their Hallowe’en Spooktacular is running until Nov 10th.