All the answers can be found in our 25 pieces of culture from The 25 pieces of the culture that explain the last 25 years story (and are included at the bottom of this newsletter). Good luck!
1) This mononymic viral recipe from the 2020 lockdowns — attributed to a sassy and eventually controversial New York Times Cooking contributor — is basically chana masala.
2) When this magazine cover — featuring a splashy celebrity pair — dropped in 2014, the conventional wisdom held that she was tarnishing his reputation.
3) This book might not have launched girlboss feminism — Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso coined that particular term with her own memoir — but this mega-hit self-help autobio from a Facebook executive is often credited as the era’s most important text.
4) When the New Zealand director of Heavenly Creatures set out to make this blockbuster — an Academy award-winning movie released in December 2001 — he could not have known what an apt allegory it would end up being for 9/11.
As Constance Grady explains in 25 over 25, this epic battle of good and evil aligned with America’s binary thinking following the terror attacks.
5) This all-timer banger from 2017 wasn’t the first Spanish-language song to hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts (it was the third), its remix was the first song to have Justin Bieber sing in the language.
