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Why Did So Many Restaurants Stay Open During the 1918 Pandemic?

Why Did So Many Restaurants Stay Open During the 1918 Pandemic?

For Starters, More People Needed Places to Eat

By Rebecca Spang | May 27, 2020

How I Hustled Hundreds of Dollars of Free Tacos for the Literary World

How I Hustled Hundreds of Dollars of Free Tacos for the Literary World

The Founder of Taco Bell Quarterly Tells All

By MM Carrigan | May 19, 2020

How Will Restaurants Reinvent Themselves Post-Lockdown?

How Will Restaurants Reinvent Themselves Post-Lockdown?

A Conversation with Critic and Restaurant Historian William Sitwell

By Kerri Arsenault | May 11, 2020

Digging Beyond the Myths of America's Red-Blue Divide

Digging Beyond the Myths of America's Red-Blue Divide

Sarah Neilson on Marie Mutsuki Mockett's American Harvest

By Sarah Neilson | May 6, 2020

Did the Italians Actually Teach the French the Art of the Vinaigrette?

Did the Italians Actually Teach the French the Art of the Vinaigrette?

Bill Buford on the Trail of a Culinary Mystery

By Bill Buford | May 5, 2020

What I Learned Speaking to Fidel Castro's Personal Chef

What I Learned Speaking to Fidel Castro's Personal Chef

How a Dish of Fish and Mango Sauce Changed Erasmo Hernandez Leon's Life

By Witold Szabłowski | April 28, 2020

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When Enemies of Coffee Tried to Destroy Morning in America

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Maybe we can all be sourdough librarians in a post-pandemic world.

By Corinne Segal | April 16, 2020

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By Fred Shaw | April 16, 2020

Nathan Englander's comfort carrots will make you feel better.

Nathan Englander's comfort carrots will make you feel better.

By Nathan Englander | April 10, 2020

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By Rabih Alameddine | April 8, 2020

Growing Up in One of America's Legendary Restaurants

Growing Up in One of America's Legendary Restaurants

Fanny Singer on Her Mother's Place, Chez Panisse

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Ode to the Lemon Tree and <br>All It Provides

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Meir Shalev on the Most Important Tree in the Garden

By Meir Shalev | March 31, 2020

Comfort Food in Uncomfortable Times

Comfort Food in Uncomfortable Times

Michael Wiegers Makes French Onion Soup with His Daughter

By Michael Wiegers | March 30, 2020

When a Talented Young Sommelier Has to Serve an Assh*le

When a Talented Young Sommelier Has to Serve an Assh*le

Victoria James on the Time She Served a
Racist Idiot a $650 Bottle of Wine

By Victoria James | March 25, 2020

The Deep Metaphorical Power of a Good Cup of Coffee

The Deep Metaphorical Power of a Good Cup of Coffee

Dinah Lenney on Coffee, Aging, and Changing Tastes

By Dinah Lenney | March 19, 2020

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