MAD Recommends | September 2025

Summer vacation is long gone, but at least there's some smart insight into restaurant culture, more moral courage from Yvon Chouinard, and a lot more cheese

Welcome to MAD Digest Recommends, our special supplement for paid subscribers that takes the month’s firehose of food-related media, and siphons it to a gently burbling stream of can’t-miss pieces.

Article: Patagonia Changed the Apparel Business. Can It Change Food Too?, by David Gelles, The New York Times

If you were at MAD7, you understand why we’re suc…