Object of the Week

The Hottest New Pasta Shape Was Born From a Podcast

Bucatini is so 2020

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Object of the Week is a column exploring the objects a culture obsesses over and what that reveals about us.

The 21st century has been a time of constant technical innovation — and a time for ridiculously overthinking food. These seemingly unrelated meta-trends…