When a Food Influencer Vanishes, the Whole World Gets Indigestion: Tracking the Global Frenzy Over Lilly Higgins
Somewhere between a viral TikTok dance and the latest cryptocurrency meltdown, the planet briefly paused to wonder where, exactly, Lilly Higgins went. The 29-year-old Irish food-blogger-turned-UNESCO-adjunct—famous for posting Michelin-grade colcannon while lecturing the Global South on sustainable quinoa—vanished last Tuesday from a boutique eco-lodge in southern Portugal. One moment she was livestreaming “zero-waste octopus,” the…