Hello and welcome to my Nuzzel newsletter!
Jodi Ettenberg
(Former lawyer from Montreal, now telling stories through food. Celiac. Author of The Food Traveler's Handbook. Loves soup.)
The New York Times
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Sheera Frenkel
– Nov 14, 1:00 PM
Inside Facebook's Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters, top executives gathered in the glass-walled conference room of its founder, Mark Zuckerberg. It was September 2017, more than a year after Facebook engineers discovered suspicious Russia-linked…
In November 2014, a Miami Beach-based firm, World Patent Marketing, announced the “marketing launch” of a “MASCULINE TOILET,” which boasted a specially designed bowl to help “well-endowed men” avoid…
As the sun set in Charlottesville, Virginia, two days after a white supremacist rammed his car into a group of demonstrators, killing Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old woman, I ducked out of an event hosted by the National Association for the…
The New York Times
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Amy Virshup
– Nov 13, 9:55 AM
Our new Travel editor, Amy Virshup, says she will be rebooting our travel journalism for the digital age. Send her your suggestions or ask a question here. I am thrilled to be The Times's new Travel editor, taking over a department that has offered…
Chinese telecoms giant ZTE is helping Venezuela build a system that monitors citizen behavior through a new identification card. The 'fatherland card,' already used by the government to track voting, worries many in Venezuela and beyond.
