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Buffet Magazine @buffetlives.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“We looked at it in a nostalgic, friendly way,” Sami Tamimi says of his cookbooks co-written with Yotam Ottolenghi. Now, Tamimi—who is Palestinian—views things differently. Read our interview here: buffetmagazine.net/sami-tamimi-...
buffetmagazine.net
“We were quite naive.” Sami Tamimi on writing, cooking, and Palestine
A Buffet exclusive
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
someone please help, trying to remember an old media scandal: someone wrote this weird grandiose essay about a roadtrip but it became abundantly clear that she was given the car for free and it was essentially personal essay sponcon… does anyone remember this? i think they took the essay down
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
second time in a week this happened while editing... grammarly seems to have a political axe to grind?
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
this was quite a story to report out! bsky.app/profile/gour...
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
@gourmetlives.bsky.social is on Bluesky! Give us a follow! bsky.app/profile/gour...
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
i happened to be in LA the last night Taix was open. it was… quite an experience! gourmetmagazine.net/taix-french-...
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Death & Taix
Five hours of chaos and bonhomie
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
NEW: Developers of the proposed Elizabeth Street Garden affordable housing project are suing the city and Eric Adams over illegally declaring the site a city park: therealdeal.com/new-york/202...
therealdeal.com
Elizabeth Street Garden developers sue city over mayor's “lawless” act in declaring site a park
Pennrose, Habitat NYC and Riseboro sued the city over Mayor Eric Adams’ decision to declare the Elizabeth Street Garden an official park.
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
shuddering about what hell part two will wrought
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
only like five journalists can pull off flowery writing and none of them are working/alive right now
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
The city just awarded a big development project to a so-called "emerging developer." On paper, this is true, but there's one issue: the firm's founder is a real estate scion and once held an exec role at a billion-dollar REIT: therealdeal.com/new-york/202...
therealdeal.com
The city chose an “emerging developer” for a major Meatpacking District project. Some call it a “mockery”
The Economic Development Corporation selected Douglaston Development and Kinwood Partners to build housing on a city-owned site. The designation of Kinwood as an emerging developer has raised some eye...
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The housing questions on the ballot passed, but many still don’t know what comes next. Some have said it’s a way to defang City Council, others believe it gives developers more power. Here’s what they actually mean and what housing folks/developers plan to do: therealdeal.com/new-york/202...
therealdeal.com
Will the housing measures bring projects back from the dead?
Voters approved housing ballot measures that overhaul New York City’s land use review process. Here’s what it means for future development.
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
A JLL broker was promptly fired after comparing Mamdani to Hitler in an all-office email. He also expressed concern that NYC would soon have public Islamic calls to prayer (something it already has): therealdeal.com/new-york/202...
therealdeal.com
JLL fires top broker who compared Mamdani to Hitler
JLL fired Scott Panzer after he compared Zohran Mamdani to Adolf Hitler.
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Great story about the Midtown South rezoning. The city says it will yield nearly 10k units. But the rezoning included carveouts reducing the total. One side says the reduction is major, another says it's minor. Projections are more of an art than science: therealdeal.com/new-york/202...
therealdeal.com
Did the city lose out on 1,000 housing units in Midtown South?
Report by Midtown South supporters argues that City Council changes meant potential housing losses of up to 1,000 apartments.
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
shots fired from le veau d'or's bar director to NYT's priya krishna: mozzysticks.substack.com/p/a-love-let...
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A Love Letter to Priya Krishna
Dear Priya ( The Epilogue )
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Rent Guidelines Board just voted 5-4 on the following rent-stabilized rent increases: 3% for one-year leases, 4.5% for two-year leases
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
important personal update: i’m now in my pluot era
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Elizabeth Street Garden NIMBYs ultimately prevailed therealdeal.com/new-york/202...
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City abandons Elizabeth Street Garden plans
First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro announced that the city has reached an agreement with Council member Chris Marte to rezone three other sites instead of building on the Elizabeth Street Garden site.
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
A judge let the FARE Act be enacted this week. But, one day later, a major NYC real estate lobby is already trying to appeal that decision: therealdeal.com/new-york/202...
therealdeal.com
REBNY appeals FARE Act loss
The Real Estate Board of New York is appealing a federal judge’s decision to reject its motion for a preliminary injunction to halt the FARE Act and to dismiss several of the trade group’s claims.
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
was making some morningstar farm veggie sausage for my lunch today, marked clearly as "plant based," but read the ingredients and it includes egg whites? that seems... wrong?
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
god tier jane pratt headline
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
we all knew this was coming. they milkshake ducked sherita (but in all honesty this story contains stellar reporting) www.thecity.nyc/2025/05/19/s...
thecity.nyc
The Terrible Truth About Sherita, Brooklyn’s Beloved Billboard Dinosaur
The vanished icon of Atlantic Ave. was the relic of a secretive family who grabbed buildings from immigrant owners across the booming borough.
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
feels like jane is running out of relatable shenanigans
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
currently in the phase of listing to the new bonnie prince billy album where i’m texting everyone i know to also listen to it
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
A funny thing about Bluesky is that every once in a while, a post of mine linking to a story gets shared and liked a fair amount and yet it drives absolutely no traffic. This is actually different from Twitter, which would drive a bit of traffic in these instances...
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Depressing NYC real estate statistic of the day: More than a quarter of Manhattan residential transactions last year came via trusts (meaning rich person bequeathing to other rich offspring): therealdeal.com/new-york/202...
therealdeal.com
Nepo babies grow up: Trusts represent more than a quarter of Manhattan transactions
The surge of activity from three years ago reveals a dramatic increase in homes being inherited or provided by parents to their children.
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
all lana del rey songs follow the exact same structure BUT it’s a very good and effective structure
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
layoffs at the information… extremely foreboding
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 11/04/2025
after ~5 years at The Information, i've been laid off, alongside 2/3rds of our features team. i am devastated. if you're looking for an experienced investigative reporter with a knack for producing high impact features about tech and business, please reach out: parismartineau@gmail.com DMs open
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Ex-employees at the Surrey hotel are suing its new owners for not giving them their jobs back after going bankrupt due to the pandemic: therealdeal.com/new-york/202...
therealdeal.com
Ex-employees of Surrey Hotel sue Reuben Brothers over lost jobs
Ex-employees of the Surrey Hotel are suing Reuben Brothers and Corinthia, alleging that they violated a pandemic-era law
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Brian Gaar @briangaar.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Excellent work by new NYT headline writer Werner Herzog
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
happy new perfume genius album day to all who celebrate
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
the VF denton interview is very bizarre
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
a developer plans to spend more than $1B converting cruise ships into luxury condos on water: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Former Norwegian Chairman Readies $1 Billion for Condos at Sea
A developer of residential towers in New York, Miami and Los Angeles is embarking on a new venture, with plans to spend more than $1 billion converting cruise ships into luxury condos on the seas.
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
wild statistic: eric adams unveiled a virtual voucher system to help 200K new yorkers get Section 8 housing. since june, when it went live, only 318 have successfully used it to get a new home: therealdeal.com/new-york/202...
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Rent voucher “lifeline” is virtual dead end
Nine months after 600,000 sought to get on New York City’s waitlist for federal vouchers, only 318 have used them to rent an apartment.
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
haven’t thought about this guy in probably seven years but losing it over the idea of being “bearish on language learning”
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
linkedin brain is a disease
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
congrats to bkmag for finding a way to give the most common name a typo
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
anyone on here have fuchsia dunlop’s ‘the food of sichuan’ and could give me a picture of a recipe?
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
dasha’s quotes as a community board meeting in midtown east are exactly what one would expect her quotes to be www.curbed.com/article/dash...
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
the latest example of High Literature doing luxury sponcon has arrived (an insert in the weekend NYT)
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
need to debrief with fellow western massachusetts-ers Of A Certain Generation about how the new perfume genius sounds like vintage winterpills
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
the SNL PR machine has really been on overdrive for the last few months (two stories in the NYT today alone!) and i cannot wait for this campaign to end
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
a fun plus to the lorne michaels book/reply-all story is that it informed me that renata adler is still alive
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
forgot to post this here, but i got a new job
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
A little bit of personal news: Today was my last day at Modern Retail/Digiday. It's been a crazy/amazing 5+ years there. I've never learned so much at a job and worked with some of the best business journalists and editors in the game. More soon on what's next!
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
linkedin engagement bait has become such a bizarre amalgam of social media trends. i just saw a post where someone wrote a long and pretty uninteresting analysis of amazon earnings but included a headshot for no apparent reason? like, why is it there???
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
NEW: A day after de minimis changes, Temu is already focusing on "local" products: www.modernretail.co/technology/a...
modernretail.co
After de minimis change, Temu's selection is now mostly 'local' items
Currently, when a user opens the Temu app in the U.S., nearly every product has a green sticker below its image that says "local."
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Mschf—the self-described art collective that got sued by Nike for the Lil Nas X Satan Shoes—is soliciting journalists to write "pulitzer-worthy" stories for a new magazine. But the magazine will be printed on soap bottles. That is, it's launching a soap brand: www.modernretail.co/marketing/ms...
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Mschf seems to be making a magazine printed on soap bottles
According to a document viewed by Modern Retail, Mschf is now soliciting pitches for a new product called Soap Magazine.
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
A rare hybrid media/retail scoop from me: Mschf is soliciting pitches for a new magazine -- but it's actually not a magazine, it's a line of soap that will have long-form articles written on it: www.modernretail.co/marketing/ms...
modernretail.co
Mschf seems to be making a magazine printed on soap bottles
According to a document viewed by Modern Retail, Mschf is now soliciting pitches for a new product called Soap Magazine.
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cale weissman @caleweissman.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
A rare hybrid media/retail scoop from me: Mschf is soliciting pitches for a new magazine -- but it's actually not a magazine, it's a line of soap that will have long-form articles written on it: www.modernretail.co/marketing/ms...
modernretail.co
Mschf seems to be making a magazine printed on soap bottles
According to a document viewed by Modern Retail, Mschf is now soliciting pitches for a new product called Soap Magazine.
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