Grab your cup of coffee or tea, and sit down with a selection of this week’s great reads from The Globe.
In this issue, Michael Harris asks whether the rise of cooking apps has broken the link between food and memory, and what happens when recipes begin detaching from family knowledge passed down from generation to generation. Report on Business reporter Joe Castaldo dives into the physical infrastructure behind artificial intelligence, and the strain a new era of generative AI could have on power and water grids.
And award-winning photographer Goran Tomasevic brings us images from Haiti, where a struggle for power has filled Port-au-Prince with dead bodies, displaced residents and questions about who can bring peace to the troubled country. If you’re reading this on the web, or it was forwarded to you from someone else, you can sign up for Great Reads and more than 20 other Globe newsletters on ourThe movement toward non-family recipes – recipes created by celebrity chefs and foodie bloggers – has been a long time coming, Michael Harris writes.We’ve all eaten these mouthfuls of food – the ones that can both recall a catalogue of taste memories and somehow reconstruct for us a whole lived experience.