Welcome to Off-Menu, where we'll be rounding up all the food news and food-adjacent internet ephemera that delighted, fascinated, or infuriated us this morning.Of course Lucia Riina—daughter of the late Salvatore Riina, the mob boss from Corleone, Sicily—is "trying to capitalize financially on infamy of her murderous father by trying to attract customer’s with his hometown’s name," by naming her new restaurant in Paris "Corleone." Don't like it? Don't eat there.This 3.3-pound tub of Maldon Sea Salt available on Amazon Prime is the surprisingly delightful (and super easy for you) gift to get for all your friends-who-cook-but-whose-kitchen-situation-you-don't-know-a-ton-about.
News
- The Atlantic has a smart piece out today on what we've gained and lost with the almost unassailable rise of the Instant Pot. It retrofits into Anne Helen Petersen's sweeping account of Millennial burnout the missing aspect of how women increasingly working outside the home has not lessened the demand of domestic labor when it comes to food, which in turn has forced technological solutions to feeding a family.
- The government shutdown is soon-to-be record-breaking. It's incredibly generous—and a decent reminder that society is not all bad—that some restaurants are offering comped meals to furloughed federal employees. (But let's not be careful not to categorize citizens eating the cost of government incompetence as some kind of good news.)
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I'm just so glad that this is the first and only TikTok video I've seen.