Author: Tiffany Vincent

When something as commonplace as yogurt is involved in a food recall, a certain level of anxiety arises. It’s not as dramatic as a headline about contaminated meat. However, mold in a sealed container of chilled yogurt—the kind you buy in bulk at Costco because you think it will last for weeks—carries a silent warning. And all across Canada, that alarm went off this week. The Greek Gods brand’s Honey Yogurt and Organic Yogurt Plain, which are both offered in twin 650-gram containers, are the subject of an urgent recall notice from Costco Canada. The American food company Hain Celestial,…

A Berkshire-made chocolate bar has a subtly remarkable quality. The cocoa was grown, harvested, fermented, and processed on a university campus a short drive from Reading town center, rather than being assembled in Berkshire from imported cocoa, as almost every British chocolate product has been made for the past century. In some respects, it’s a minor issue. There are six bars in the world. You are unable to purchase one. However, the backstory raises an issue that most people haven’t given much thot to: where precisely does Britain get its chocolate, and what would happen if that supply became unreliable?…

A woman named Jeannine Katusabe became ill in a city called Bunia in the eastern fringes of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She attempted to treat her illness at home, as many people do, with traditional remedies, family support, and hope. Her age was 38. It was too late when she arrived at the Ebola treatment facility. In a region of the world where grief like this has been arriving far too frequently and far too quickly, her family gathered for her funeral last week, sobbing. On the ground, the 2026 Congo Ebola outbreak looks like that story—small and…

Going digital was always going to feel like a big deal for a chain that built itself entirely on the energy of a face-to-face moment—a happy crew member leaning out of a small stand window, calling out your name, giving you a drink that somehow felt custom even tho it wasn’t. After operating without a mobile app for almost ten years, 7 Brew finally made that decision on August 12, 2026. No loyalty dashboard, no app, and no online ordering. Only the window, the queue, and whatever you remembered to request. The chain, which originated in Arkansas and opened its…

There are times in a person’s career that shape how the public perceives them, and for Lucy Davis, that time came subtly in a low-budget BBC mockumentary shot in a dull office block in Slough. She portrayed Dawn Tinsley, the receptionist at Wernham Hogg Paper Merchants, with such honesty, care, and lack of conceit that viewing old clips now feels more like discovering someone’s real life than a performance. Dawn had a natural sense of humor. Yearning without expressing it. It was the acting that made you forget that it’s even happening. Lucy Davis revealed something this week that had…

There are some food pairings that seem obvious in retrospect once someone tries them. One of those is chicken and waffles. It’s a Southern mainstay with roots that, in some parts of the nation, qualify as cultural heritage. People took notice when Chick-fil-A discreetly tested a Chicken & Waffles sandwich at a few locations last year. It’s difficult not to wonder why it took so long for the chain to bring it to every location across the country on August 24. Although the sandwich’s concept is simple, its execution is multi-layered. A Chick-fil-A chicken filet, three strips of applewood smoked…

Millions of British viewers are familiar with Letitia Dean’s big hair, dramatic exits, and door-to-door altercations on Albert Square. Letitia Dean has lived inside one of the most scrutinized characters in British soap opera history for forty years because Sharon Watts has been a mainstay of EastEnders since its first episode in 1985. Another story about her weight, her relationship with food, and a cycle she couldn’t seem to break no matter what she tried ran silently alongside the headlines and storylines for a large portion of that time. She has discussed it herself, which requires a certain level of…

A journalist who covers health crises, obesity research, and the science of human behavior for years and then becomes somewhat involved in the story herself is intriguing in a subtle way. This kind of observation has been the foundation of Branwen Jeffreys’ career at the BBC; she has tracked the discrepancy between people’s knowledge and their actions. It’s difficult not to wonder how much of that professional knowledge has permeated her personal life, given her own apparent transformation over the past few years. As a health correspondent for the BBC, Jeffreys covered everything from gastric surgery to research on Mediterranean…

Reading about a woman with an eating disorder who was told to just eat more because her thinness was unsuitable for television, rather than because someone was worried about her health, has a subtly unsettling quality. Lena Dunham is finally writing about what she claims happened to her in the early days of Girls. Dunham describes what life was really like behind the scenes of the show that made her famous in her new memoir Famesick, which was published in April 2026. She was in her twenties, having recently experienced anxiety, and finding it difficult to eat. She claims that…

Something about the current discussion surrounding Michelle Yeoh doesn’t quite make sense. When she shows up at a premiere or a still from a movie set, the internet starts diagnosing her right away. “Extremely thin and worrying,” one commenter says. She is asked if she is on Ozempic by someone else. When you consider the last forty years of Yeoh’s career, from her early stunt work in Hong Kong cinema to her Oscar night in 2023, the discipline has always been present. This kind of response says more about how people consume celebrity bodies than it does about Yeoh herself.…