Top food Instagram profiles for chefs and celebrities

Quarantine has turned everyone into a cooking show host on Instagram. Here are some fun people to watch.
Jenn Harris • Los Angeles Times • April 28, 2020
Many of us are trapped in the Instagram vortex. In the absence of sleep or anything to do, you scroll and scroll (and scroll) until you pause at a video of someone throwing something into a pan. The ASMR of the sizzling is enough to inspire your...
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