For a food writer, gestational diabetes made food seem like an enemy.

Adam Kuban should need no introduction for longtime Serious Eats readers. He founded both the pizza-focused blog Slice and its sister, A Hamburger Today, both of which Ed Levine bought and incorporated into Serious Eats in 2006. He then served as the managing editor of the entire site until 2010, and he contributed immeasurably to its development and success.

Cow's tongue, as my mom saw it, was one of the greatest cuts of beef, a fact she was convinced more people would realize if only they weren't too lily-livered to eat it. She made sure her children weren't among the ignorant.