Osayi Endolyn

I write about art, food, media, and popular culture through a lens of identity and social dynamics.

Politics

We Really Need to Talk About the Black Stories Being Co-Authored by White Writers

Jun 5, 2026

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15 min read

We Really Need to Talk About the Black Stories Being Co-Authored by White Writers

The publishing industry isn't hiring Black writers for works we are uniquely qualified for. White writers coast on proximity to gatekeepers over competency and expertise.

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Restaurants

Broken Fish and Bad Vibes at Brooklyn's New Pies 'n' Thighs

May 8, 2026

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11 min read

Broken Fish and Bad Vibes at Brooklyn's New Pies 'n' Thighs

Black food is a part of Black American Southern hospitality, and both require cultural competency. That's hard to fake, and apparently harder to teach.

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Travel

Lessons From Germany: On Culture, Craft, and Winemaking as Narrator

Apr 29, 2026

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4 min read

Lessons From Germany: On Culture, Craft, and Winemaking as Narrator

From Mainz in the south to Berlin in the north, the landscape offers an ongoing study of terrain as identity.

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Restaurants

Hot Like Fire! Racing to Win. And Who Gets to Frame the Story of Modern Caribbean Dining?

Apr 14, 2026

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7 min read

Hot Like Fire! Racing to Win. And Who Gets to Frame the Story of Modern Caribbean Dining?

Started from the bottom, but still first up in here.

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Politics

So, Lego Animations > Press Briefings, Do I Have That Right?

Apr 7, 2026

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9 min read

So, Lego Animations > Press Briefings, Do I Have That Right?

The theater of war has an AI-generated back beat.

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Media

Apr 1, 2026

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14 min read

Of Individual and Corporate Blaccents

As Dionne Farris once sang, 'I know what you're doing. Yeah.'

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Restaurants

In NYC, Fine-ish, French-ish, Uncomfortably American Dining

Mar 24, 2026

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11 min read

In NYC, Fine-ish, French-ish, Uncomfortably American Dining

And: With respect to fallow time, Georgia's Hambidge Center intros AAPI arts fellowship

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Entertaining

Oh Snap, Are We Hosting the Homies Again?

Mar 17, 2026

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16 min read

Oh Snap, Are We Hosting the Homies Again?

A reflection on home entertaining, and building creatively with The Maroon Life from Nicole A. Taylor and Adrian Franks.

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Restaurants

The Abuses Reported at Noma are Absolutely Relevant to You

Mar 10, 2026

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17 min read

The Abuses Reported at Noma are Absolutely Relevant to You

Horrific accounts of chef René Redzepi punching, stabbing, belittling, and harassing staff and unpaid interns over a decade-plus have me connecting dots across the globe

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Media

Mar 3, 2026

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15 min read

What is Really New About the New Food Media?

Can familiar names at recently launched platforms from Coyote Media, to (the new) Gourmet, to Caper Media give us different results? Plus: Artist Chase Hall blesses the Met archives.

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Creativity