• Food

    Family History

    The Importance of Getting Food Right in Fiction

    By Jamie Harrison  January 14, 2021
    Wine

    Inside Algeria’s Early ‘Kingdom of Wine’

    By Owen White  January 13, 2021
    Food

    Cold War Turned Flavor War: On European Food Disparity, From East to West

    By Slavenka Drakulic  January 6, 2021
    Emergence Magazine

    Robin Wall Kimmerer on the Gifts of Mother Earth

    By Emergence Magazine  December 28, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    American Cheese by Joe Berkowitz, Read by Charlie Thurston

    By Behind the Mic   December 15, 2020
    Food

    What Does It Mean to Read Great Food Writing in a Pandemic?

    By J. Kenji López-Alt  December 14, 2020
    New Books Network

    Why COVID-19 Expands the Case for Going Vegan

    By New Books Network  December 3, 2020
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    On Colonial Nostalgia and Food in Fantasy Writing

    By Lizzy Saxe  December 1, 2020
    Thanksgiving

    On the Extravagance of Mark Twain’s Family Dishes

    By Melissa Scholes Young  November 24, 2020
    Comfort Food

    Doughnuts or Donuts? Krispy Kreme or Dunkin’? All of the Above?

    By Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant  November 24, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Women in the Kitchen by Anne Willan, Read by Imogen Church

    By Behind the Mic   November 20, 2020
    Storybound

    Ruth Reichl Reads a Thanksgiving Story

    By Storybound   November 17, 2020
    Food Writing

    Every Foodie Has an
    Origin Story

    By Deborah Madison  November 13, 2020
    Emergence Magazine

    Sandor Katz Considers Fermentation as Metaphor

    By Emergence Magazine  November 9, 2020
    Food History

    Priya Basil on the Living Histories of Regional Cuisine

    By Priya Basil  November 3, 2020
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Poet Natalie Diaz in Conversation with Chef Evan Hanczor

    By Tables of Contents  October 28, 2020
    Food History

    On the 19th-Century Food Writer Who Embraced Gluttony As a Virtue

    By Joy Lanzendorfer  October 28, 2020
    Emergence Magazine

    On the Lost Art of Foraging for Food and Medicine

    By Emergence Magazine  October 26, 2020
    Cookbooks

    On Turn-of-the-Century Suffrage Cookbooks, Trojan Horse For Women’s Equality

    By Laura Kumin  October 22, 2020
    Cookbooks

    The Cookbook That Keeps Memories of a Maine Inn Alive

    By Jeanne Hodesh  October 1, 2020
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Maaza Mengiste in Conversation with Chef Evan Hanczor

    By Tables of Contents  September 30, 2020
    The Hub

    Absolute snack Stanley Tucci is writing a memoir about his life as a foodie.

    By Emily Temple  September 17, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    What Happens in a Pandemic When Your Friendship Superpower is Cooking?

    By Lisa Donovan  September 10, 2020
    The Hub

    Let’s take a moment to appreciate Natalie Diaz’s Twitter cocktails, the medicine we need right now.

    By Hannah Manshel  August 31, 2020
    Lifestyle

    Laura Lippman on Diets, Incels, Frankenfoods, and Not Caring
    About Any of It

    By Laura Lippman  August 6, 2020
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