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Helen Rosner

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“Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches” New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication It’s always Free Palestine 🍉

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · Nov 12

Hello! I write a weekly column for the New Yorker (mostly restaurant reviews, sometimes other vibey stuff) called The Food Scene. It’s also conveniently available as an email—the whole article, in full, no paywall!—which you can sign up for here:

Helen Rosner on what, where, and how to eat.

www.newyorker.com

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 52m

Lol

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Ooh good catch

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 1h

Featuring your standard 47-word, nine-comma sentence

(As it happens, Chateau Royale's executive chef, Brian Joung was a cook at the Quilted Giraffe back then.)
Thanks, perhaps, to its insouciant, class-warface-inciting name, the beggar's purse became a sensation, helped, no doubt, by its face-melting price tag: when the item débuted, in 1981, the Quilted Giraffe charged thirty dollars apiece; by the end of the decade, it was fifty dollars. Chateau Royale's beggar's purses run thirty-nine dollars per ping-pong-ball-size bundle- depending on how you look at it, this is either a scandal or a hell of a deal.

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 1h

Obsessed with photographer Thea Traff’s stark, color-blocky images that run alongside my restaurant review this week. Also, tbh, very pleased by my opening graf www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

THE FOOD SCENE
HOW FRENCH SHOULD A
RESTAURANT BE?
Chateau Royale, from the team behind Libertine, pulls out all of the Gallic stops without, for the most part, feeling ostentatious or conceited.
By Helen Rosner
October 12, 2025
Chateau Royale both plays its Frenchness straight and wears it lightly.
Photographs by Thea Traff for The New Yorker

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 14h

I have no choice but to poop on her bed

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 15h

It has protein and fat and it makes her happy, idc, it’s a win

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 15h

My 2yo just informed me that her favorite food is gummy bears wrapped in salami. Then she held eye contact while wrapping a gummy bear in salami and eating it.

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 19h

I’m about to buy SO many limes

Grocery bin full of limes with a sign affixed reading “15/$2.00”

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 1d

i’m running for president in 2028, this is my platform:

- no more spam texts and calls
- smaller cars with weaker headlights
- imprison every person in ice and the trump administration on a remote island for a thousand years

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 23h

The what

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 1d

This is canon now

Ferengi Liaison to Project Cybersyn @sovietcola.bsky.social · 2d

"Tracy you can't fly anymore, remember?"
*cut to Tracy stood in a plane brandishing a box cutter. his expression is tense and angry but he is saying "If you do not all calm down I cannot teach you about knife safety" in Arabic*

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 2d

No lol that’s a good bit

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

Social capital isn’t meant to be hoarded
open.substack.com/pub/grouphug...

Social capital isn’t meant to be hoarded

Models for your groups to take action, spread the love, and pop the bubble

open.substack.com

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 2d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 2d

Newsletter, I think? Probably the best of anything is writing effusive letters of praise to the magazine but it’s uncouth of me to ask for that

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 2d

I’m always saying this

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

Almost 9 months ago, our press colleague Anas Al-Sharif removed his press vest following the announcement of a ceasefire.

And then we saw what happened next. May we ensure the bombs actually end this time.

I wish he, and so many more, were here with us.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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All Hallows' Leask (Hallowle'ask) @leask.bsky.social · 4d

I find the quest to make the dryest or filthiest martini to be exhausting in the same way I wish they'd stop piling shit on caesars/bloody marys or milkshakes, so I appreciate @jayasaxena.com's piece on wet, sweet & floral martinis having their day slate.com/life/2025/10...

One of the Greatest Cocktails Has Been Ruined by a Nasty Trend. But There’s Hope on the Horizon.

The era of bracing bravado is coming to an end.

slate.com

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 4d

they don’t want you to know how they treat prisoners because it will grieve you to know it, which is natural and human, and because of your normal human reaction you will want the system changed. It’s important to them that your natural aversion to how the system works not be engaged.

The News & Observer @newsobserver.com · 4d

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

NC nonprofit still pushing for Durham County sheriff to release jail policies

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

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