Welcome to Open Tab, a weekly roundup of news, gossip, and stories that have stayed open in my tabs all week. Last week we covered the pasta sauce company that wants to record your conversations .

This week I was pleased to read a lovely Grub Street piece by Ella Quittner about Jacques Pépin, now 90, who makes the world’s greatest chicken . I particularly liked when Pépin told Quittner, author of the incredible cookbook Obsessed with the Best , that everyone’s “definition of the best of anything is ‘to a certain extent a narcissistic reflection of your taste.’” Gagged me a bit, to be honest.

Oysterman Graham Platner will likely be the Democratic challenger to Susan Collins in Maine’s upcoming US Senate race after governor Janet Mills dropped out this week .…