Diana Hubbell

CHEFS

Simone Tong Doesn't Want Chinese Food to Be Bound by 'Rules'

“What is authenticity? We should encourage people to adapt. We look backward to learn from history so that we can move forward."
Diana Hubbell
9.5.19
sex work

Banks Have the Power to Ruin Your Sex Life

When perfectly legal businesses are blocked from actually making money by banks and services like PayPal, our cultural acceptance of sex is pushed further into the fringes.
Diana Hubbell
8.8.19
food-features

NYC Settles With Hundreds of Street Vendors After Trashing Their Food Carts

“They took everything from me. I tried to save my food, but they threw away my food and my cart and everything.”
Diana Hubbell
5.7.19
PROFILES

This NYC Artist's Radical Bread Is Baked to Be Destroyed

"If you look at bread, you have to look at subsidies and revolts and taxation. Bread has never really been simple.”
Diana Hubbell
4.17.19
Street Food

Inside NYC's Street Vendors' Fight to Survive

"Right now, the way the laws are enforced is sporadic and unfair and it doesn’t work for anyone."
Diana Hubbell
4.15.19
CHEFS

Chef Nikki Tran's Viet-Texan Cuisine Reflects the Breadth of Vietnamese Food

“I never learned how to make traditional Vietnamese food, so I thought I would do something different—that way nobody could say if it was right or wrong.”
Diana Hubbell
2.20.19
longreads

This Fresh Batch of New York Bakers Is Making Bread Interesting Again

"It’s funny, when people meet me, they’re like, ‘Wait, you’re not what I expected.’"
Diana Hubbell
1.15.19
chocolate

How This Syrian Refugee Family Brought Their Century-Old Chocolate Business to Texas

In Damascus, the name Slik is synonymous with fine confections. Now, the family-owned chocolatier is continuing its legacy in a new homeland.
Diana Hubbell
11.19.18
beer

How Two Native American Women Are Shaking Up Albuquerque’s Craft Brewing Scene

Bow & Arrow Brewing Co. is the only Native woman-owned brewery in the U.S., and a haven for the local LGBTQ and indigenous communities.
Diana Hubbell
10.25.18
rose

New York's Rosé Mansion Is Exactly the Dystopian Instagram Trap You'd Expect

NO STANDING, ONLY DANCING.
Diana Hubbell
9.17.18
cake

How a Prisoner of War Turned this Fussy German Cake into a National Obsession in Japan

While Baumkuchen, or "tree cake," is rare in Germany, it's now found everywhere in Tokyo from 7-11 to fancy department stores.
Diana Hubbell
8.7.18
Caviar

Can Caviar Be 'Disrupted'? This Russian Property Mogul Wants to Find Out

Here's what goes down in the massive sturgeon bunker that Alexey Tyutin has built in a Thai beach town.
Diana Hubbell
1.25.18
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