The tales that stick most in our particular person reminiscences aren’t all the time those that outline a yr. A greater reflection maybe lies within the tales that garnered essentially the most of our collective consideration. If these 10 are any indication, it was a yr that has confirmed tough to sum up. Folks sought out tofu and lasagna; they crammed big cups with soiled sodas; and so they continued to care about eating places. Right here, the total checklist of our most-read tales of the yr.
Simply in time for Easter, Amy McCarthy dug into the historical past behind the Cadbury Creme Egg, a real star of the spring vacation season (regardless of what our finest Easter sweet rating says formally). Who knew there was sufficient curiosity within the fleeting deal with to push it into our high 10?
As will turn out to be clear as this submit continues, everybody loves a rating. This yr, Disfrutar in Barcelona took the highest spot on the annual World’s 50 Greatest Eating places checklist, which ranks high quality eating locations from around the globe. Not surprisingly, a sure form of diner is keen so as to add Disfrutar and 49 different successful eating places to their bucket lists.
Clearly, residence cooks need assist with tofu. This round-up of our employees’s favourite tofu recipes included fried, crumbled, and steamed preparations.
Yearly, Eater publishes an inventory of the very best locations to journey around the globe for meals (look out for The place to Eat in 2025 firstly of subsequent yr). In 2024, these spots included Cairo, Osaka, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia, which we confirmed off on this bundle visually impressed by a jetset-era departures board.
Again in January, a restricted version Stanley x Starbucks tumbler precipitated rushes of Goal prospects to trample one another. Simply as inevitable as these stampedes was the gawking curiosity within the fervor round Stanley cups, and why precisely folks go so loopy over them. This was, in spite of everything, the yr SNL additionally embraced the massive dumb cup.
Salt Lake Metropolis had an enormous yr in 2024. The success of the Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis is ongoing, and in September, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, a actuality present chronicling the messy relationships of a gaggle of Mormon mother influencers residing in Salt Lake Metropolis, debuted on Hulu. On the latter, the present’s stars may be seen consuming soiled sodas, or sodas spiked with syrups and lotions. For all these curious to know extra, we had this explainer prepared.
In Could, Morgan Spurlock died at 53. When Spurlock premiered Tremendous Dimension Me in 2004, a documentary that noticed Spurlock eat solely McDonald’s for 30 days and document the well being results, it grew to become a phenomenon. Twenty years later, and within the wake of Spurlock’s dying, Adam Reiner mirrored on its affect and the controversy surrounding the documentary and its director.
Who doesn’t recognize lasagna? On this installment of Bettina Makalintal’s recipe testing column, she put three internet-famous lasagnas to the check: Alison Roman’s A Very Good Lasagna, Samin Nosrat’s Massive Lasagna, and John Chandler’s World’s Greatest Lasagna. There may solely be one winner — do click on via to seek out out.
The James Beard Basis Awards course of takes place in levels: an extended checklist of semifinalists, adopted by the brief checklist of finalists, and eventually, the checklist of award winners. It’s that center stage that earned essentially the most eyes this yr — it’s, in spite of everything, an honor to be nominated — however in reality, all of our protection of the awards occupied a spot on this checklist. The finalists occurred to be the story that gained essentially the most eyeballs.
Eater’s annual checklist of the very best new eating places throughout the nation dropped this fall, celebrating 14 eating places that opened over the previous 12 months, from a modern-day fish camp in Asheville, North Carolina to a three-hour tasting menu exterior of Houston. And it’s heartening to see that Eater readers have been additionally desirous to have fun these stellar latest entrants into America’s dynamic eating scene.