Coverage
226 substack items across 10 feeds; delta since 2026-May 30 kept 102 records (4-day window, on-cadence). Google Trends 3,360 records, 18 food-adjacent realtime-7d strings (mostly sports, recalls, finance, and proper-noun spikes; ~4 usable). Instagram delta is 57 thematic records from today's 19-handle core run (signal types: us-demand=65, jp-supply=8, noise=22 across the full file). Category weighting from context.md (food primary, home secondary, apparel tertiary); NY-metro IG geo weight applies. Cluster pre-processing collapsed 22 records into 5 same-pub editorial pushes; each counts as 1 evidence unit (F&W gear-test 8, F&W toxins 4, F&W bourbon 3, BA grilled mains 4, SE feta 3).
Sticky from prior pulse (no new evidence)
- Summer tomato wave (prior #1): quieter this delta; only scattered BA tiny-tomato galettes and F&W tomato carbonara. Folded into general summer-produce cooking, not its own slot.
- Cold-noodle season + Noma LA (prior #2): no new Noma posts this delta; the JP-cuisine thread continues as today's #4 (donabe / miso / nanban).
- Cocktail barware + classic spirits (prior #3): extended into today's #5 (Caribbean / new-bartender class / salt technique); bourbon now in single-source.
- Coffee culture (prior #4): folded into today's #1 (coffee makers + French press in the gear-test cycle).
- Premium tabletop + gear-test (prior #5): extended and broadened into today's #1 (appliances now dominate the roundup wave).
- Premium home & apparel craft on NY creators (prior #6): @lichennyc shifted to a food event (TANG), @salter.house to homeware objects with no JP anchor; apparel quiet, dropped to noise this delta.
- Grocery-as-luxury (prior #7): no new Erewhon/tinned-fish evidence; quiet.
- Fine-dining prestige reset (prior #8): 50 Best / James Beard news cycle passed; quiet.
- Mediterranean / named-Greek (prior #9): continues as the SE feta cluster, now in single-source highlights (single-pub, demoted post-cross-review).
- National Hamburger Day (prior #10): holiday passed May 28; search velocity decayed, dropped. Donut Day (June 5) is the live calendar item now (#8).
News excluded (not consumer trends)
champion foods pizza recall / california dairies milk powder recall (recalls), t-mobile internet outage us (outage), costco stock / costco earnings (finance), guzman y gomez residual (chain exit), mcdonald's menu / fast food restaurant (generic chain spikes).
Noise excluded (false positives)
ben rice / kiki rice (MLB / WNBA), storm vs toronto tempo (WNBA), ucl / gabriel magalhães / declan rice / mikel arteta (soccer), martina mcbride / bret michaels (concert), sauce walka baby momma (entertainment), dot cake (proper-noun bakery brand), bancho the chef (proper-noun).
Caveats
- 4-day delta (on cadence). Today's 08:14 scheduled radar run failed entirely (
net::ERR_INTERNET_DISCONNECTED, no network on machine wake); all three sources were re-run manually mid-day, so this pulse rests on a clean same-day pull. - F&W produced 50 of 102 delta records (49%) and drove three of the five clusters; cross-source signals (#1, #2, #5, #6) are firmer than the F&W/SE-led single-pub clusters (toxins, feta, bourbon, grilling), all of which now sit in single-source highlights.
- Rules fired: ≤3-per-pub trim on #1 (F&W gear-test shown 3 of 8). JP nudge applied at #1 (rice cookers) and #4 (donabe/miso/nanban); #4 was lifted into primary on the nudge but capped below the heavier cross-source food themes. IG floor (≥2/8) exceeded: #3, #4, #7 are IG-anchored (#2, #6 IG-supported).
- Cross-review (Codex): 4 keep, 4 soften, 2 blocker. Softens auto-applied to #2/#3/#4/#6 (stripped JP-supply and bridge-mapping prose that belongs in /weekly-report, not /pulse). Both blockers (non-toxic kitchen, feta) failed the ≥2-publication primary bar; demoted to single-source highlights on the user's call, dropping the primary list from 10 to 8.
- IG run was clean this time (19/19 core handles loaded vs ~13/19 last run). Drift demotions acted on post-run: @katarinacohen, @himichelleli, @visitnymph moved core→adjacent (≥4/5 noise); core cohort now 16.
- Machine clock ran a day ahead during the IG fetch (
captured_at and the review sidecar stamped 2026-June 4); post published_at dates are correct and unaffected. Cosmetic; flagged for the radar maintainer.
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