If you’re reading this column and don’t understand how Twitter works, this week’s cooking discourse—a word that is doing a lot of heavy lifting here—should give you insight on how things are going. Essentially, someone went viral for arguing that cooking is a privilege. By this I do not mean the Taurus way of seeing it, like, man, it’s such a privilege to be alive and on this planet and cooking delicious foods. I mean privilege like the way being a white, cisgendered man born into wealth is a privilege. Really!
The tweet that launched it all has been deleted, but here’s a screenshot, which makes it clear that we are not talking about skills like speed-julienning a vegetable. Buzzfeed tech reporter Katie Notopoulus summarized the absurdity of the argument perfectly: “It’s classist to know how to boil an egg.” Obviously, cooking is a skill that can be developed, some people have more access to developing them, and some people may need assistance with basic tasks like peeling an orange or peeling garlic due to disabilities. But all cooking? Anyway, the person eventually said that everyone was right to clown on their original tweet. Then that was that.
You may think this sort of back-and-forth of strangers’ half-baked thoughts is brain-melting, but it’s also exactly what’s keeping people on the platform for entertainment. Congrats on your purchase, Elon. 2.3/5 distressing — Serena Dai, editorial director
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Picture this: New England’s unofficial mascot, Ben Affleck, red in the face, grimacing, juggling a Jenga tower of Dunkin’ cups, doughnut bags, and munchkin boxes. You actually don’t even have to picture it, because it’s a mirage carved into the annals of American history. And it never gets old. Ben recently invited a new companion to his most intimate of Dunkin’ runs, none other than old flame slash new wife JLo. It’s a perfect marriage of two pop culture obsessions that have afforded Affleck outsized prominence: Dunkin’ Ben and Bennifer.
He’s remarkably calmer here, standing upright with a cool confidence rather than hunched over with terror in his eyes—no death grip here. He appears to be holding an iced coffee and a bag of something (maybe a sausage egg and cheese?). Meanwhile, JLo seems to carry a frap of some sort in one hand and a matcha latte in the other. Maybe the only thing he needed all along was an extra set of hands. 4.7/5 delicious. —Li Goldstein, digital production assistant
This story has been updated with additional comment from Cravings by Chrissy Teigen.
