• Food

    Book Tours

    Ann Beattie: What to Eat When Your Book Tour Comes to an End

    By Ann Beattie  May 22, 2019
    Mother's Day

    Finding My Mother in the Pages of Her Favorite Cookbook

    By John McMurtrie  May 10, 2019
    History of Food

    Why Are American Men So
    Obsessed with Steak?

    By Joshua Specht  May 8, 2019
    Social Media

    Ruth Reichl, Redeeming the Twitter Hellscape One Tweet at a Time

    By Jason Diamond  April 11, 2019
    Journeys

    From the Bronx to Rural Nigeria, How Kwame Onwuachi Became a Chef

    By Kwame Onwuachi  April 11, 2019
    How to...

    On Making Mary Berry’s Fast Cakes
    and Not Writing

    By Emily Temple  April 3, 2019
    Events

    At a Dinner Inspired by Marlon James Latest Novel

    By Drew Broussard  March 28, 2019
    Food Science

    A Brief History of That Most Noble Tuber, the Potato

    By Rebecca Earle  March 28, 2019
    Essay

    Writing My Novel Turned into Cooking Boot Camp

    By Mary Adkins  March 13, 2019
    Feature

    Who Would Win in a Great Literary Bake-Off?

    By Emily Temple  March 5, 2019
    Excerpts

    To Sit Beside Boris Fishman on an Airplane is to Behold the Riches of Russian Cooking

    By Boris Fishman  February 26, 2019
    Excerpts

    What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Drinking

    By Beth Kracklauer  February 26, 2019
    Excerpts

    Ayelet Tsabari: How Food Connects Us to Home

    By Ayelet Tsabari  February 15, 2019
    Conversations

    Why We Hunger for Novels About Food

    By Crystal King  February 14, 2019
    Feature

    Elizabeth McCracken: Toward a Unified Theory of the Doughnut

    By Elizabeth McCracken  February 5, 2019
    Essay

    “You Can’t Discuss Palestinian Food Without Talking About the Occupation.”

    By Yasmin Khan  February 5, 2019
    Excerpts

    Recipes and Wisdom from the Late, Great Ntozake Shange

    By Ntozake Shange  January 29, 2019
    Essay

    Reading Across America: Have Your Poetry and Eat It, Too

    By Laura Winnick  January 16, 2019
    Excerpts

    Feed a Fever, Starve a Cold, but What Do We Do for Cancer?

    By Karen Babine  January 8, 2019
    Excerpts

    Scholastique Mukasonga on the Power and Privilege in a Loaf of Bread

    By Scholastique Mukasonga  December 18, 2018
    Feature

    Here It Is! Alice B. Toklas’s Recipe for Hash Brownies

    By Emily Temple  November 20, 2018
    Hair of the Dog

    Weird Hangover Cures Through the Ages

    By Shaugnessy Bishop-Stall  November 20, 2018
    Feature

    The Good, The Bad, and The Delicious: 20 Unexpected Literary Cookbooks

    By Emily Temple  November 19, 2018
    Excerpts

    Can I Get a “McGangbang?” On the Weird World of Secret Menus

    By Alison Pearlman  October 11, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Sandwich That Helped Feed Puerto Rico After FEMA Failed

    By José Andrés and Richard Wolffe  September 28, 2018
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