• Food

    Comfort Food

    Memory, Care, Protection: Crystal Hana Kim on the Many Uses of Food

    “To pay attention to the meal in front of you is to commit your hope and faith.”

     
    By Crystal Hana Kim  April 4, 2025
    Recipes

    Pistachio Kulfi Inspired by Asha Thanki’s A Thousand Times Before

    By Evan Hanczor  February 25, 2025
    Patriarchy

    A Fantasy of Domesticity: Why We’re Drawn to the False Promise of the Tradwife

    By Larissa Pham  February 12, 2025
    The Hub

    The first issue of Reader’s Digest from 1922 is both shocking and relevant.

    By James Folta  February 7, 2025
    Psychology

    How Many Licks? On Tootsie Pops, Desire and the Science of Delayed Gratification

    By Sarah Perry  February 4, 2025
    Culinary History

    Sweet Yet Versatile: In Praise of the Magnificent Melon

    By Caroline Eden  January 17, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Agriculture

    Why Did We Start Drinking Milk? On the Ancient Rise of Dairy Consumption

    By Anne Mendelson  January 9, 2025
    Food Writing

    Learning to Make the World’s Rarest Pasta

    By Eliot Stein  December 11, 2024
    Animals

    What Chickens Know: On Bonding with Birds and the Language of Hens

    By Sy Montgomery  November 7, 2024
    Baking

    Little Meals for Little Ones: On the Joys of Sharing the Kitchen With Children

    Rose Carrarini and marissa-catherine carrarini Offer Up a Simple Recipe For a Kid-Friendly Classic

    By Rose Carrarini and marissa-catherine carrarini  March 24, 2025
    Recipes

    Heavenly Paella: Exploring a Unique Monastic Culinary Culture in the Mountains of Catalonia

    By Jody Eddy  October 21, 2024
    Food Writing

    The Poetry of the World’s First Cookbook: What Cooking Can Teach Writers and Translators

    By Aditi Machado  October 21, 2024
    Recipes

    Legendary Pastry Chef Dominique Ansel Recommends a No-Frills Way to Pop the Question

    By Dominique Ansel  October 18, 2024
    Cooking

    Anthony Bourdain on the Life and Legacy of a Truly Infamous Cook: Typhoid Mary

    “Mary Mallon was a cook. And her story, first and foremost, is the story of a cook.”

    By Anthony Bourdain  October 15, 2024
    Social Movements

    Animal Rights Are Women’s Rights: Why British Suffragettes Went Vegetarian

    By Elsa Richardson  October 4, 2024
    Community

    Chowder and Community: In Praise of Warm Meals and Warm Hearts

    By Tammy Armstrong  October 3, 2024
    Food History

    Pilsner Goes to America: How Beer Got Big in the 19th Century

    By Jeffrey M. Pilcher  September 30, 2024
    The Hub

    I made Nicholas Sparks’ Splenda-packed chicken salad.

    By James Folta  September 26, 2024
    In Conversation

    American Nightmare: Alice Driver on the Immigrants Who Risked Their Lives at a Meatpacking Plant During Covid

    By Sarah Viren  September 5, 2024
    Language

    How Our Diet and Culinary Heritage Informs the Way We Speak

    By Iheoma Nwachukwu  September 4, 2024
    Travel

    The coolest bookstore bars in America.

    By Brittany Allen  August 16, 2024
    Cultural History

    Slippery, Slimy and Sublime: On Our Fascination with Eels

    Ellen Ruppel Shell Goes Deep on the Cultural Life of the Anguillidae

    By Ellen Ruppel Shell  August 5, 2024
    Literary History

    Returning to the Scene: What’s Left of Café Loup, Legendary NYC Literary Haunt?

    By Erin Edmison  July 31, 2024
    Colonialism

    “Weapons of Health Destruction…” How Colonialism Created the Modern Native American Diet

    By Andrea Freeman  July 24, 2024
    The Royal Family

    How the British Monarchy Made Breakfast the Most Important Meal of the Day

    By Tom Parker Bowles  October 23, 2024
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