Cool Hunting Video Presents: Mast Brothers Chocolate

Brooklyn's fraternal chocolatiers take us from bean to bar in our new video

In this latest Cool Hunting Video, we visit Brooklyn to tour the Mast Brothers’ bean-to-bar chocolate factory—one of just a handful in the U.S. The chocolatiers, Rick and Michael Mast, walk us through their uniquely intensive process, DIY machines, and a little of their food philosophy.

The Thing Quarterly: Issue 10

This American Life contributor Starlee Kine's tearful latest issue of The Thing

In the age of ubiquitous information, The Thing Quarterly brings back the element of surprise with a subscriber-powered publication kept under lock and key until delivery. Edited by Jonn Herschend and Will Rogan, The Thing is “a periodical in the form of an everyday object,” inviting artists, writers, filmmakers, and other creative types to come up with visual work that incorporates text. Recently unveiled, writer …

Salt Mountains

An infographic showing the startling sodium levels in processed and packaged foods

A helping of bread crumbs has fourteen times more sodium than potato chips? Good Magazine helps answer such questions with a surprising look at the salt levels in some of America’s favorite eats in an infographic by Next Generation Food. As expected, fast food burgers rank among the worst offenders—three of the four included are loaded with around 1,500mg of salt—but canned soups like chicken …