Our Correspondent Has Now Identified the Best Burritos in the West
We’re halfway done with the first round of our Burrito Bracket now that correspondent Anna Maria Barry-Jester has selected the best burritos from what we define as the West. She’s been all over the...
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We Return to the Burrito Bracket’s Chicago Roots
This is review No. 9 of 16 in the first round of our competition. Each review will compare four burritos, with my favorite advancing to Round 2. Anna Maria Barry-Jester is traveling the country in...
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Our First Facebook Chat: Ask Nate Silver Almost Anything
Way, way back in January 2013, after a long and busy 2012 election season, FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver took questions in the social news site Reddit’s “Ask Me Anything” section. Well, we can...
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New York Burritos Have Come a Long Way
This is review No. 10 of 16 in the first round of our competition. Each review will compare four burritos, with my favorite advancing to Round 2. Anna Maria Barry-Jester is traveling the country in...
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It’s Crunch Time for Burritos in the Northeast
This is review No. 11 of 16 in the first round of our competition. Each review will compare four burritos, with my favorite advancing to Round 2. Anna Maria Barry-Jester is traveling the country in...
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‘The Handsome Man’ Burrito And Its Plantains Win by a Nose
This is review No. 12 of 16 in the first round of our competition. Each review will compare four burritos, with my favorite advancing to Round 2. Anna Maria Barry-Jester is traveling the country in...
View ArticleWe Have Now Identified 12 of the 16 Best Burritos in America
We now know the best four burritos in what we define as the Northeast in our Burrito Bracket. Correspondent Anna Maria Barry-Jester traveled from Iowa to Maine as part of our search for America’s best...
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Welcome to California, And the Burrito Bracket’s Group of Death
This is review No. 13 of 16 in the first round of our competition. Each review will compare four burritos, with my favorite advancing to Round 2. Anna Maria Barry-Jester is traveling the country in...
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Fish And Chips Abound in Southern California’s Burritos
This is review No. 14 of 16 in the first round of our competition. Each review will compare four burritos, with my favorite advancing to Round 2. Anna Maria Barry-Jester is traveling the country in...
View ArticleOur Correspondent Explains Why She Performs and Photographs Burrito Autopsies
I knew when I signed up to work on the Burrito Bracket that I and FiveThirtyEight would get some criticism. Picking 64 burritos out of a sea of awesome, we were certain to miss a few greats. People who...
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San Francisco Burritos Really Are Better
This is review No. 15 of 16 in the first round of our competition. Each review will compare four burritos, with my favorite advancing to Round 2. Anna Maria Barry-Jester is traveling the country in...
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The Burrito Bracket’s First Round Comes to a Close With a Major Upset
This is review No. 16 of 16 in the first round of our competition. Each review will compare four burritos, with my favorite advancing to Round 2. Anna Maria Barry-Jester is traveling the country in...
View ArticleGet Ready For Round 2 In Our Search For America’s Best Burrito
The first round of the Burrito Bracket is finished, which means we have selected the 16 best burritos in America. To recap, our Burrito Selection Committee determined the top 64 burrito-selling...
View ArticleOur Correspondent Laments The Burrito That Got Away
I’ve written extensively about the process of selecting the 64 burritos that would compete in FiveThirtyEight’s Burrito Bracket. California, with the most burrito-selling establishments and an...
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An Unlikely Burrito Is The First To Make It To The Finals
This is review No. 1 of four in the second round of our competition. Each review will compare four burritos, with my favorite advancing to the third and final round. Anna Maria Barry-Jester is...
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Where Beans And Cheese Are All It Takes
This is review No. 2 of four in the second round of our competition. Each review will compare four burritos, with my favorite advancing to the third and final round. Anna Maria Barry-Jester is...
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Can A Southern Burrito Overtake One Of California’s Finest?
This is review No. 3 of four in the second round of our competition. Each review will compare four burritos, with my favorite advancing to the third and final round. Anna Maria Barry-Jester is...
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The Last Finalist For America’s Best Burrito Is Delicious
This is review No. 4 of four in the second round of our competition. Each review will compare four burritos, with my favorite advancing to the third and final round. Anna Maria Barry-Jester is...
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America’s Best Burrito
America es un gran burrito, a giant tortilla stuffed with dreams. Or so it seems to me, now that I’ve eaten my way across it. Early this year, FiveThirtyEight evaluated 67,391 burrito-selling...
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Can Crowdsourcing Tell Us Whether A Burrito Is Any Good?
This past summer, FiveThirtyEight took on the somewhat ridiculous task of searching for America’s Best Burrito. Knowing this effort would be Herculean, we enlisted the help of Yelp and a panel of food...
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