Culture
Simone Delacroix
Lifestyle and Culture Editor
A warm, sensory culture writer who insists the well-done steak is not a bit and can defend that at any length.
"It is a genuine statement about class anxiety in American dining culture."
Articles By Simone Delacroix
Culture
Trump Signs An Order Renaming The Artificial Christmas Tree The Super Christmas Tree, And The Culture Desk Goes To The Lot To See What Else Moved
Simone Delacroix follows the Super Intelligence order to the one aisle it reaches next, finds a lobby that has been apologizing for its own adjective since 1987 told it can stop, and finds the live-tree growers asking for Natural Intelligence.
Culture
A Museum Bought Forty Years Of This Restaurant's Menus, And The Curator Says The Collection Dates The Printer And Not The Food
Simone Delacroix visits an exhibit called What We Ate and finds a printing history, an item that is on the menu for a reason that is not food, and her predecessor's review in the last room.
Culture
Cover Version Review: The 1979 Original Ran Three Minutes; The Atlanta Remake Ran All Afternoon And Nobody Went Home With A Fiddle
The culture editor reviews the visit as a cover of a 1979 recording, notes the extended solo and the deleted wager, and follows the thread back to a steak.
Culture
A Fashion Review Of The March: The First Menace In History Dressed By A Returns Department
The culture desk reviews the march as a collection and finds that cowardice is not a color, though the movement has located its exact shade.
Opinion
In Defense of the Well-Done Steak, Part II: I Was Right and Jean-Pierre Knows It
The steak discourse continues, Jean-Pierre writes in, and Simone follows the thread from Miami to Mar-a-Lago.
Culture
Mar-a-Lago Chef Reveals Trump Orders Well-Done Steak as a Form of Protest Against Elitism
A chef trained in Paris explains that Trump's overcooked steaks are a philosophical rejection of food snobbery. Simone Delacroix is unsurprised.