Stephan's Friday Picks

• Is Toronto too downmarket for Eataly (Globe and Mail)
• Mattel, PwC obscured accounting issues, former executive says (WSJ)
• How bubble tea became a complicated symbol of American-Asian identity (Eater)
• Top chefs pick their favourite pie in America (Bloomberg)
• From the archives (1968): What it's like to live in Toyland (Macleans)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Inside Amazon’s plan for Alexa to run your entire life (MIT TR)
• Get ready to try the Impossible Burger of ice cream (Grub Street)
• Plant-based meat get their beefy taste from flavorists (WP)
• Beauty giant Coty tries on a smaller size (WSJ)
• UPS delivers prescription medications to US homes by drone for the first time (The Verge)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Walgreens has explored taking the drug store chain private (Reuters)
• Walmart appears to be gaining ground against Amazon (CNBC)
• The seedless lemon revolution has taken root in California (LA Times)
• Walmart’s strategy when wading into the culture wars: Offend few (NYT)
• Casino, Intermarche probed by EU over French supermarket probe (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• The sun rises on Wegman's (The New Yorker)
• Amazon drops grocery delivery fee as competitors close in (Reuters)
• Finally, a great single-cup coffee brewer (Wired)
• Before food took over reality TV, there was 'The Restaurant' (Eater)
• The 2019 holiday season: Shoppers are ready to spend but retailers need to personalize (McKinsey)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• The trouble with chocolate (WP)
• Stitch Fix is diving deep into data for a more tailored experience (Fortune)
• Food delivery looks like another gig economy dead end (Bloomberg)
• The making of high-tech kosher and halal meat (Quartz)
• J.C. Penney plots a comeback (WSJ)

Best of Pax Westona: October 2019

• The market for alternative proteins (McKinsey)
• How Irish butter Kerrygold conquered America's kitchens (Bloomberg)
• Taking on the tortilla industry (NYT)
• Jeff Bezos's master plan (The Atlantic)
• Is Amazon unstoppable (The New Yorker)
• Flour power: Meet the bread heads baking a better loaf (The Guardian)
• Inside beauty brand Deciem's ambitious comeback (Vogue)
• Online advertisers tell you what to buy, advertisers wonder who's listening (WSJ)
• The great Texas whiskey boom (Texas Monthly)
• How homeopathy went from fringe medicine to the grocery aisle (Vox)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Why do people hate vegans (The Guardian)
• Meet Maangchi, the internet's favourite Korean home cook (The Verge)
• The future of food. Meatless? (McKinsey)
• Altria cuts value of Juul stake by $4.5 billion (WSJ)
• From the archives (1994): Home Depot buys Aikenhead's in Canada (NYT)