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b'Helen Rosner is a food correspondent at The New Yorker.\\n\\n \\u201cI believe the things that are really important to me are structure over all and\\u2014forgive me, I\\u2019ve said this on other podcasts before\\u2014if I were going to get a tattoo this is what I would get a tattoo of is that it doesn\\u2019t matter what you say, it only matters what they hear. It\\u2019s my job to make sure the gulf between those two things is as narrow as possible and there\\u2019s as little ambiguity between what I say and what you hear. It\\u2019s never easy, but it\\u2019s certainly easier in the realm of arguable objectivity. To create emotion in a reader requires a huge amount of really thoughtful work on the part of the writer in a way that forces you as a writer to remove yourself from the emotion you\\u2019re creating in the reader. If I to set you up for sadness, I have to create emotional stakes. I have to create investment in whoever I\\u2019m talking about or whatever the story\\u2019s about. The craft of making stakes and setting up a potential downfall, a potential loss, whatever it may be I think is not something you can do well if you\\u2019re feeling the feeling you\\u2019re trying to create in the reader.\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to MailChimp, Read This Summer, and You Can\'t Make This Up for sponsoring this week\'s episode. Also: very rare, very exclusive Longform Podcast t-shirts are still available!\\n\\n\\n@helsn\\nRosner on Longform\\nHelen Rosner\'s official site\\nHelen Rosner\'s archive at The New Yorker\\n[06:15] Menu Pages\\n[08:40] Helen Rosner\'s archive at New York Magazine\\n[12:35] Helen Rosner\'s archive at Saveur\\n[19:40] "The Exquisite Blankness (and Highly Suspect Guacamole) of Antoni Porowski from \'Queer Eye\'" (The New Yorker \\u2022 Mar 2018)\\n[32:10] "The Best Time I Got a Bikini Wax" (The Hairpin \\u2022 Mar 2011)\\n[33:15] Helen Rosner\'s archive at Eater\\n[38:30] "There\\u2019s nothing good in cooking, but there are no other options." (Sandra Zhao \\u2022 Eater \\u2022 Aug 2016)\\n[40:20] "One Night at Kachka" (Erin DeJesus with Danielle Centoni and Jen Stevenson \\u2022 Eater \\u2022 Jun 2015)\\n[49:55] "On Chicken Tenders" (Guernica Mag \\u2022 Jun 2015)\\n[51:00] The Boundaries of Taste\\n[1:06:10] The Phantom Tollbooth (Norton Juster \\u2022 Random House \\u2022 1961)\\n[1:16:20] "An MSG Convert Visits the High Church of Umami" (The New Yorker \\u2022 Apr 2018)\\n[1:16:30] "Christ in the Garden of Endless Breadsticks" (Eater \\u2022 Oct 2017)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'