Aaron Calvin

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Writer, award-winning journalist, editor.

 

 

 
 

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Food 

- Ways of Eating | Newsletter
- Sexual Harassment, Booze, and Barbecue: Inside Bruce Gerleman’s Restaurant Empire | Iowa Informer

- Iowa Farmers Face Climate-Fueled Destruction, While the Industry Says it’s ‘Just Weather’ | Civil Eats

- The Iowa Derecho Put Refugee Food Workers at Even Greater Risk | Civil Eats

- COVID-19-Related Closures in Ankeny Highlight Uncertainty for Iowa Bars and Restaurants | Iowa Informer

- Iowa’s Oldest Chinese Restaurant Is Now The Weirdest Fusion Pizza Place You’ll Go To | BuzzFeed News

- How Decorah, Iowa, Became One of America’s Great Beer Towns | InsideHook

- A Tex-Mex tradition endures at Henry J's Taco House | DMR

- These are the oldest Des Moines restaurants still in operation | DMR

- From Casey's pizza to QuikTrip tea, these are Iowans' convenience-store favorites | DMR

- The 41 bygone Des Moines restaurants diners miss the most | DMR

- Drinking water donation efforts highlight a softer side of MillerCoors and Anheuser-Busch's competitive 'Corn Syrup War'|DMR

- MillerCoors escalates Corn Syrup War with lawsuit demanding rival Anheuser-Busch stop marketing campaign, pay damages

- You can trace Iowa's taste for chili and cinnamon rolls back to elementary school lunch | DMR

- MillerCoors, Anheuser-Busch fight over farmers in aftermath of Bud Light's Super Bowl ad | DMR

- B&B Grocery is a Des Moines institution for a reason | DMR

In Sayville, South Shore Dive Serves Up Hyper-Local Food and Plenty of Atmosphere | Edible Long Island

-  The Vanishing American Diner | Men's Journal

Hotel Food Takes a Giant Leap Forward | Men's Journal

- The 10 Best Ways to Make a Hot Dog | Men's Journal

- 10 Splurge-Worthy State Fair Foods | Men's Journal

- The 25 Best Burgers in America | Men's Journal

- The 15 Best Bloody Marys in America | Men's Journal



Trends, Culture, News

- Health Officials Face Death Threats From Coronavirus Deniers | The Intercept

- Living History Fiasco | Iowa Informer

- How a small town reacted when its mayor was caught growing weed | The Guardian

- Wells Fargo Call Center Workers in 4 States Test Positive for COVID-19 | VICE

- Wells Fargo Demands Call Center Workers Come to Office Despite Coronavirus | VICE

- ‘Iowa Nice’ Doesn’t Mean Much to Me | VICE

- Behind the Carson King story | Columbia Journalism Review

- Meet Carson King, the 'Iowa Legend' who's raised more than $1 million for charity off of a sign asking for beer money | DMR

- The stories behind 19 odd Iowa town names | DMR

- 'Nothing has ever really been like this': The story behind Iowa's unprecedentedly popular blackout license plates | DMR

- A treasure trove of muscle cars: Iowa man sells nearly 100 vehicles after decades of collecting | DMR

- The once and future flag: How a neglected symbol of Des Moines is making a comeback thanks to one local family | DMR

- In the kingdom of muscle cars: How Coyote Johnson built his massive collection and why he's selling it away | DMR

- Mysterious painting of a naked woman discovered in south-side Des Moines home | DMR

- The 'Goddess of Grapes' caper: Homeless Iowa woman recovers and returns stolen sculpture to Sioux City Art Center | DMR

- How one Iowa man's mental health crisis ended with his arrest | DMR

- How George the pig, once headed to the slaughterhouse, landed at an Iowa animal sanctuary | DMR

- Why Do They Come To The Iowa State Fair? | Catapult

Why does Des Moines, Iowa have worse affordable housing than Brooklyn? | The Guardian

Echo and The Lonely Men: Can Amazon's Alexa Be Your Friend? | Digg

'RuneScape' Can't Escape 2007 | Digg.com

This Comic Perfectly Explains What White Privilege Is | BuzzFeed

Which “Friday Night Lights” Character Are You? | BuzzFeed

 


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