Best of Pax Westona: December 2019

• A Montreal bagel war unites rival kings (NYT)
• Long-awaited Cosmic Crisp apples to hit shelves (The Spokesman Review)
• Canada's food price report (Dalhousie University)
• Free shipping isn't really free (The Atlantic)
• Every Instant Pot user should be cooking with dried beans (Eater)
• The volatile economics of natural vanilla in Madagascar (Bloomberg)
• What have we done to lunch (City Lab)
• How 'direct-to-consumer' blew up retail (BoF)
• How L.O.L dolls became the dopamine hit of a generation (NYT)
• Walmart's secret weapon to fight off Amazon: The supercenter (WSJ)