
Ellen Cushing
@elcush
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I write about food and other stuff for @theatlantic and my email address is [email protected] 🌞
NYC!
Joined March 2009
i went to the Tesla Diner and you'll be shocked to hear it wasn't very good!
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The Tesla Diner looks a lot like what we already have, just weirder and worse.
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have you noticed that everything is spicy now? i wrote about why:
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More Americans are setting their mouth on fire—for extreme sport, and for everyday thrills.
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When did redeeming credit-card rewards get so complicated? @elcush looks into it: https://t.co/tcyJUdbP1x
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Transporting human bodies through the air at hundreds of miles an hour has always been somewhat unpleasant, @elcush writes in Time-Travel Thursdays.
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Transporting human bodies through the air at hundreds of miles an hour has always been somewhat unpleasant.
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ok, @elcush and i are answering questions about the FUTURE OF BASEBALL on r/MLB today!! https://t.co/8NqiaHRMsh
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Explore this post and more from the mlb community
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New newsletter: The death of partying in the USA The latest American Time Use Survey came out last month. I wanted to follow up on @elcush's declaration that Americans need to party more. The new data confirms: America's social crisis is dire. - Between 2003 and 2024, the
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Why don’t women play professional baseball? Why do players always seem to be chewing on something? How could climate change alter the sport? Tomorrow on Reddit, @kait_tiffany and @elcush are answering your questions about the forces shaping the game: https://t.co/mrPeWaAL19
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As long as I've been writing about technology, friends and strangers have been asking me what they, personally, should do about Big Tech and its growing power. My answer has always been the same: Cancel your Amazon Prime account.
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The subscription service is Amazon’s greatest—and most terrifying—invention.
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Francisco Lindor: ALL-STAR! Congratulations to @Lindor12BC on being named the NL starting shortstop for the 2025 All-Star Game! ⭐
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Wraps are one of the worst foods: like a salad, but less refreshing, or like a sandwich, but less filling. And yet, they’re popular again—and not because they taste better now, @elcush writes: https://t.co/vudJd4AuAM
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This @elcush essay portends the obvious: Sun-dried tomatoes are coming back next.
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Wraps are popular again. So is a certain kind of physique.
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apologies to the millions of listeners of New York's only anti-math baseball podcast Hits Different -- we had a technical snafu that was caused equally by all three of us (we were holding hands) and this week's episode, which we did record, was lost </3
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These days, it seems like every restaurant has a riff on the fried-chicken sandwich, @elcush reports. Is this the end of the burger’s dominance?
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The sun is setting on burger dominance.
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More brands have been offering the choice to opt out of Mother’s Day marketing emails. The trend is kind of brilliant—and also patently absurd, @elcush writes:
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Why so many companies are inviting people to opt out of Mother’s Day emails
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5. "There Are Two Types of Dishwasher People" @elcush "But after reading Ellen Cushing’s delightfully sardonic piece on how to load a dishwasher, I’m forced to admit: Maybe I’m part of the problem." https://t.co/6c5RNFk7eS
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And only one of them really knows how to load it.
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she is heaven sent
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Katy Perry is exactly the kind of celebrity to go to space.
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