These are the Food team's favorite stories published in 2023
Briefly

There are words like "petabytes" and "quintillion" to describe how much digital data the world generates daily. We can't possibly catch every deeply researched, heartfelt or otherwise worthwhile article that flies by our consciousness.
I'll start. Amid reviews and group projects on coffee and sushi and the annual all-consuming restaurant guide, in July I wrote an essay about jam - about a type of apricot jam, baked in the sun to transform its flavors, I first received as a gift three years ago. It comes from Lebanese Syrian preserving traditions, and it turned out to be another doorway into a culture I was already immersed in learning about through longtime friends I value as family. It was a gratifying, unexpectedly personal narrative to follow.
Read at Los Angeles Times
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