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Ian MacAllen
@ianmacallen.bsky.social
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Author of Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American, writer, graphic designer, and critic.

Find me at IanMacAllen.com or writing about food on AllTheThingsIEat.com and RedSauceAmerica.com

Former Interviews and Deputy Editor at The Rumpus
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Tonight, Winona's in Bed Stuy closed for good. At All The Things I Eat, I reflect on the meals I had there during its five year run.

#food #restaurants #brooklyn

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Scotch egg from Winona's
December 21, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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December 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Christmas is all around us while love actually plays on television.
December 17, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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The film crew used a longer lens so the buildings in the background look closer.
Cortona, under the tuscan sun
December 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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It was not market day in Cortona. But the bells did go ding dong, ding dong. And then it stormed.
December 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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We ate at Three Decker Diner, an institution in Greenpoint that was reborn in 2023.

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Reuben sandwich and disco fries from Three Decker Diner in Greenpoint Brooklyn.
November 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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This is one of my favorite all time Tweets.
Nate Silver predicting Eric Adams will be a top 5 most likely presidential contenders post-Biden.
November 13, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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This is what the Blue Wave will look like if Democrats don't drop @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov

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October 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Is this a How It Started / How It’s going or a FAFO situation.
October 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Swam in the bay this morning and now it’s cool enough for a fire.
September 21, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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This is a recession indicator.

Lots of unemployed people seeking refuge in a public university's law school.
Rutgers Law school reaches a new milestone welcoming the largest ever first year class.
August 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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I just got a spam text from Eric Adams’s campaign.
August 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Look what they took from us.
Frog and toad, the ancient claymation version
July 17, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Saw this on Reddit. Probably some truth to that.
Ozempic Killed Bear Week from reddit.
July 16, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Hmm, which year was baby born...
July 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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We had lunch at Tokidoki, a neighborhood sandwich counter from the chefs behind Shalom Japan.

#brooklyn #food #🍜 #restaurants

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Tonkatsu from Tokidoki in Williamsburg with pickles
June 21, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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I never understood why centrists are so afraid of being called centrist. If it’s such a slur maybe the problem is the policies and not the language.
Tom Scocca: The moderates got Joe Biden as President and Eric Adams as Mayor and somehow their story is that they need to tak eback power from the left:
June 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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There’s more than one way to get off a mailing list.
Fuck Cuomo.
June 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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If the main argument is that the alleged defendant saved more lives than he took, is it really a crime?
The murder had a chilling effect, according to Seidemann, who said UHC employees were afraid to sign letters denying insurance coverage.
June 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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We had brunch at new Venezuelan Bakery, Lullla's, from the family behind Casa Ora.

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Rancheros at Lulla's
June 1, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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I posted last week on my LinkedIn business page about some of the failures of AI, especially in terms of B2B services.

Not that surprisingly, the result has been a flood of inbound messages promising all sorts of new AI tools for my business.
AI is being used to spam my business account with promises of how great AI is.
May 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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More of this.
Zellnor for mayor free aftercare at school.
May 29, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Truly absurd nobody thought of this sooner.
May 22, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Looking forward to these new titles!
Coming soon? Not so fast. Instead of hiring an AI agent, hire a human who knows the difference between the next great american novel and the next great AI scandal
May 21, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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"When Steve prepared that dish, it was very much him channeling Marcella’s philosophy."

-- Peter Miller discussing @ranchogordo.bsky.social appearing in the documentary Marcella

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Marcella movie poster and Marcella Hazan next to her cookbooks
May 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM