Stephan's Friday Picks

• America's most talented nepo baby has two Michelin stars to prove it (GQ)
• The State of Grocery in North America (McKinsey)
• Tom Colicchio's final service (Esquire)
• In new luxury kitchens, everything is hidden (NYT)
• From the archives (2018): Paul Bocuse, celebrated French chef, dies at 91 (NYT)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Walmart sees signs at gas pump that consumers are stressed (WSJ)
• What comes after Peru's food revolution (Bloomberg)
• The world has officially reached peak bagel (WSJ)
• AI could transform economy, but no evidence yet of widespread job losses, Bank of Canada says (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2000): Craig Claiborne, 79, Times food critic and editor, is dead (NYT)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• The 2025 CEOs of the Year (Globe and Mail)
• Struggles of the world's 'second lung' puts cocoa crops at risk (FT)
• Duane Roberts, father of the frozen burrito, dies at 88 (WSJ)
• UK retailers 'exasperated' as Budget disrupts Christmas season (FT)
• From the archives (2009): Drink up (The New Yorker)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Tim Hortons parent misses analysts' estimates as demand slows (Globe and Mail)
• Dollar Tree, squeezed by weak spending, appoints interim CEO (Bloomberg)
• Kroger finalizes $1.37 billion opioid settlement (WSJ)
• Primark owner AB Foods profit rises ahead of expectations (WSJ)
• Bernard Marcus, a billionaire founder of Home Depot, dies at 95 (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• The American diet has a sandwich problem (WSJ)
• What's in a full English breakfast? Don't ask the English (WSJ)
• Kellogg Company unveils names for global snacking and international cereal companies following planned separation (Kellogg)
• Masatoshi Ito, the king of convenience stores in Japan, dies at 98 (NYT)
• From the archives (1999): Gucci vs Goliath (Vanity Fair)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• 10 restaurant and food predictions for 2023 (NYT)
• Behind Michael Medline's fierce defense of  profitable grocers (Financial Post)
• Consumers change food delivery habits (WSJ)
• Don Christopher, who turned lowly garlic into a household staple, dies at 88 (NYT)
• From the archives (2013): Why a trader named after a Bond villain could make your cappuccino cheaper (The Guardian)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Wine industry iconoclast Fred Franzia dies at 79 (Wine Spectator)
• Amazon to fund raises for delivery drivers amid tight labour market (WSJ)
• How Europe's CPG leaders can navigate inflation (McKinsey)
• California sues Amazon, alleging antitrust violations inflated prices and stifled competition (WSJ)
• From the archives (1998): A Pictou empire (Maclean's)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• The (other) French chef (Hazlitt)
• Meet the proud shoppers of Aldi's 'aisle of shame' (Gastro Obscura)
• Ex-supermarket boss Lord Sainsbury dies at 94 (BBC)
• How the refrigerator became an agent of climate change catastrophe (The New Yorker)
• From the archives (2010): Battle for consumer heats up (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Peter Buck, co-founder of the Subway sandwich chain, dies at 90 (NYT)
• Improving strategic outcomes with advanced analytics (McKinsey)
• The sensibility of Ssense (NYT)
• How to reduce post-harvest crop losses in the agricultural supply chain (McKinsey)
• From the archives (2015): How Big Food is using natural flavours to win consumer flavour (WSJ)