Anne Ewbank's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

Anne Ewbank

Anne Ewbank

Gastro Obscura's senior associate editor

Based in Northern California

Get in touch at: anne.ewbank@atlasobscura.com

2017
joined atlas
obscura

countries
I've visited

places
I've been

places
I want to go

places
published

foods
I've tried

foods
I want to try

Inside the World's Only Sourdough Library

The collection holds 105 starters and counting.

During Prohibition, Federal Chemists Used Poison to Stop Bootlegging

They tried to make industrial alcohol too lethal to drink.

12 Tons of Liquid Chocolate Have Blocked a Polish Highway

All aspiring Augustus Gloops should report to Poland.

Years Before Stonewall, a Chef Published the First Gay Cookbook

It was the first to be marketed to gay men.

The Turkish Roots of Swedish Meatballs

Thank the warlike King Charles XII for your IKEA lunch.

America's Greatest Horticulturist Left Behind a Plum Mystery

Frida Kahlo painted him. Thomas Edison admired him. Now Rachel Spaeth is trying to decode him.

This Scientist Explains Complex Concepts With Sushi

Sashimi meets science.

'À La Mode' Is a Lonely Survivor of a French Culinary Code

In America, à la Nesselrode and à la Maryland are à la gone.

Looking Like a Flapper Meant a Diet of Celery and Cigarettes

A new standard of beauty led to today’s weight-loss regimens.

preservation methods

Can Putting a Frog in Milk Keep It Fresh?

Modern science may have an answer to this Russian folk belief.

The Rise and Fall of the Hormel Girls, Who Sold America on SPAM

The Spamettes sang and danced and glamorized canned meat.

Found: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Coffin in a Wine Cellar

The poet's remains were rediscovered in London earlier this week.

The Story Behind New York City's New Egg House

If you visit this pop-up, you’ll enter the dreams of Ellis the egg.

Why Do Fantasy Novels Have So Much Food?

Writers since Tolkien have conjured magical feasts for readers.

The Feminist Lunch That Broke Boundaries 150 Years Ago

For women, dining in public without men was revolutionary.

The Strange History of Royals Testing Food for Poison With Unicorn Horn

It was actually narwhal tusk.

These Fortune-Telling Tea Cups Made Divination Easy

"Many Curious Things I See, When Telling Fortunes In Your Tea."

The Art Show That's All Potatoes

It's courtesy of the tuber's biggest hype man.

How This London Pub Got Its Buns Back

Hot cross buns, that is.

How Famine Under the Nazis Revealed the Cause of Celiac Disease

A food shortage helped one doctor prove his theory.

The Hoax That Claimed Thomas Edison Could Turn Dirt Into Food

Newspapers worldwide printed that he'd invented a miraculous machine.

The Quiet Rescue of America’s Forgotten Fruit

One man is responsible for roughly half of the country's stone fruit collection.

The Long, Strange History of Medicinal Turpentine

Drinking it was thought to cure nearly everything. (But you shouldn't try it.)

The Grocery Stocker Who Makes Hypnotic Vegetable Designs

Scallions, radishes, and endives form artistic works.