Bangers & Jams

Bangers & Jams

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Plus Eddington, Ha's and a deep list of summer recs

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Austin Tedesco
Jul 26, 2025
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I’m on day 21 of being on the road, with seven more to go. I miss grocery shopping at LA Homefarm and making salads in my own kitchen, though I’m fine with the amount of salt I’ve consumed in restaurants from coast to coast. (There’s a difference between journalism and … being a narc).

The past two months have been a consistently great stretch of eating out, so it’s time for a big Bangers & Jams roundup of recent standouts and recs, including some new favorite New York restaurants. Plus, check out this thing I did for my friend Natalie Guevara’s Mise-En-Scène about Jonathan Demme.

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SCÈNE 22. Austin Tedesco, Head of Business Development at Substack and Author of Bangers & Jams
In the spring, I rewatched four Jonathan Demme movies back to back. In between finishing Philadelphia (1993) and starting Rachel Getting Married (2008), I texted my friend Elizabeth Milch…
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