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Megan Paetzhold

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(She/Her)
Brooklyn
As seen in: Bon Appetit, The New York Times, Yahoo Life, Intelligencer, New York Magazine, The Cut, Curbed, Grub Street, Bushwick Daily
Covers:  Food, New York City, Politics
You heard it here second! photo editor @nymag - @intelligencer @grubstreet

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Megan Paetzhold’s Biography

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My name is Megan and I'm a Photo Editor at New York Magazine, where I produce visuals for Grub Street, The Intelligencer, and the print magazine. I also moonlight as a journalist, focusing primarily on food, night life, and the people who surround it.

Because I am a walking cliché, I also have a podcast called Whine & Dine with fellow eater and strong-opinion haver, Aiko Sato, where we tell weird stories about food and our hot takes the first Frida…

Megan Paetzhold’s Journalist Portfolio

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After Life: 983 Bushwick’s Living Room is Reborn

After Life: 983 Bushwick’s Living Room is Reborn

Cocktails and thin-cut fries are the move at the newly renovated Flushing Avenue spot.

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'I Was Seeing the Same Look in Everybody's Eyes'

'I Was Seeing the Same Look in Everybody's Eyes'

After a leaked opinion draft revealed the Supreme Court's apparent intention to repeal , activists and allies…

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Belgian Feather Bowling Flies Into Brooklyn

Belgian Feather Bowling Flies Into Brooklyn

On a recent Friday night in Brooklyn, a tense contest of feather bowling had turned into the kind of competit…

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Stumbling Into Bushwick's New Vegan Jazz Club

Stumbling Into Bushwick's New Vegan Jazz Club

New York is a city built on top of its own ghosts. Old places can disappear and be replaced before you even r…

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It's Time to Bring Back Paper Menus

It's Time to Bring Back Paper Menus

During the COVID-19 pandemic, using a QR code to call up a menu on your phone felt like a necessary, and bril…

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The Impossible Fantasy of the Perfect Mozzarella Stick

The Impossible Fantasy of the Perfect Mozzarella Stick

For three weeks straight, I dreamed of mozzarella sticks. To be fair, I've thought about mozzarella sticks on…

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Articles

These Transportive Jellies Are So Much More Than Dessert Original

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By Megan Paetzhold Verified
| Bon Appetit Verified
For stunning jelly desserts, patience is essential. That’s some- thing Thu Buser, a Brooklyn-based chef and culinary artist, learned at an early age as she watched her mother spend hours on batches of rau câu, a Vietnamese dessert made with delicate, colorful layers of jelly. Now Buser crafts her own highly stylized jellied desserts, multicolored riffs on the rau câu she grew up eating.
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A Bushwick Doughnut Shop Is Really a Tiki Speakeasy

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By Megan Paetzhold Verified
| Grub Street Verified
Ra Ra Rhino is aptly named. From the outside, Bushwick’s Dromedary Doughnuts looks like any other doughnut shop: Its cheerful pink awning and grinning-doughnut logo give way to a bright shop with various flavors of doughnuts lined up, waiting to be placed into pink boxes.
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Mary’s Bar in Brooklyn Is an Irish Pub With a Queer Makeover

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By Megan Paetzhold Verified
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Mary’s has been open for just a few weeks, but strong word of mouth has already brought in a crowd. Photo: Marissa Alper After Brendan Donohoe moved from Dublin to New York in 2006, he found a hospitality career that attracted many of his fellow expats: as a bartender at an Irish pub. In 2019, Donohoe, who is gay, joined a company that managed a dozen bars, mostly in midtown — but it wasn’t a great fit. “I didn’t recognize myself in that environment,” he says. “It felt very straight-male dominant.
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