We’ve got loads of new reads this week! Pour yourself a matcha, put your feet up, and start scrolling. Got other favorite reads? Tell us in the comments!

While we love food innovations, crazy chef stories, and culinary mishaps, we also like to educate ourselves on important issues in the industry. This week is a little less quirky and a little more social commentary, but we like to switch it up on occasion. Happy reading!

Welcome to our favorite time of the week — reading list time! Enjoy our current selection of delectable food reads, from a robot burger chef to OXFAM’s new quest to highlight food inequality.

While we mourn the loss of Anthony Bourdain, the culinary world continues to spin. And spin it does, with ice cream news, gin that is too potent, a food delivery success story, and much more.

Here’s a taste of this week’s jam-packed reading list of goodness: a members-only restaurant supper club, the new “milk” slated to take over the world, and a restaurant with mechanized chefs. Devour happily, friends!

Long weekends mean another opportunity for brunch, more time for a binge-watch sesh, and of course, a few extra moments to get some reading in. And so for your literary pleasure, we present our newest picks of fab food reads.

The annual James Beard Award gala for chefs and restaurants was on May 7, so this week we’re celebrating some of the JBFA winners outside of the kitchen. The Media Awards, disseminated at the end of April, celebrate the best of food media, broadcasts, and journalism. We picked out some of our favorites for a “feeder’s digest.” Happy reading!

This week, we’re celebrating the weird and the wonderful — bacon cryptocurrency, a deep dive into the merits of MSG, Trader Joe’s secrets revealed, and much more. Hungry for more? Make sure to check out past reading lists!