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Esmé Weijun Wang Finds Her Way Back to a Beloved Childhood Dish

Esmé Weijun Wang Finds Her Way Back to a Beloved Childhood Dish

How Illness Took Me Away from the Foods of My Youth

By Esmé Weijun Wang | March 13, 2018

How Alice B. Toklas Found her Voice Through Food

How Alice B. Toklas Found her Voice Through Food

On Writing Her Own Cookbook, After Gertrude Stein

By Justin Spring | January 18, 2018

How to Bake a Pie for the Holidays: Long Ago Lessons from My Mom

How to Bake a Pie for the Holidays: Long Ago Lessons from My Mom

David Howard Will Never Quite Get the Crust Right...

By David Howard | December 20, 2017

A Boeuf Bourguignon for the End of the World

A Boeuf Bourguignon for the End of the World

On War, Satire, and the Novels of Irène Némirovsky

By Patrick Nathan | December 11, 2017

Now You Too Can Bake Like Emily Dickinson This Holiday Season

Now You Too Can Bake Like Emily Dickinson This Holiday Season

7 Delicious Recipes from a Great American Poet

By Emily Temple | December 8, 2017

The Food Writer Who Lost Her Sense of Smell

The Food Writer Who Lost Her Sense of Smell

Sofia Perez on Losing One of the Things That Mattered Most to Her

By Sofia Perez | November 2, 2017

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Currybooks: On Authenticity and Our Expectations of South Asian Writers

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The Little Known, Much Loved Cookbook That Was Ahead of Its Time

By Adam Federman | September 14, 2017

How French Cuisine Took Over the World

How French Cuisine Took Over the World

(And the Early Cookbook Industry)

By Henry Notaker | September 13, 2017

Eat Like Your Favorite Author: Writers on their Signature Sandwiches

Eat Like Your Favorite Author: Writers on their Signature Sandwiches

From Katz's Pastrami to a Towering Fish Stick Abomination

By Ian Seiter | September 1, 2017

The Worst White House Kitchen in History

The Worst White House Kitchen in History

The Roosevelts Went Well Beyond Ketchup with Steak

By Laura Shapiro | July 25, 2017

The Invention of the Rural Hipster

The Invention of the Rural Hipster

On the Gaskins, Going Back to the Land, and Old Time American Wisdom

By John T. Edge | July 24, 2017

Against Foodies: Lessons from Eating Out of the Trash

Against Foodies: Lessons from Eating Out of the Trash

Consuming the Dregs of Capitalist Excess

By James McWilliams | July 5, 2017

When the Goodness of a Woman Was Judged By the Bread She Baked

When the Goodness of a Woman Was Judged By the Bread She Baked

On Food, Sex, and Domesticity in the 19th Century

By Linda Civitello | July 3, 2017

Eating California's Most Controversial Ice Cream

Eating California's Most Controversial Ice Cream

On the Humphry Slocombe Foie Gras Ice Cream Sandwiches

By Amy Ettinger | June 28, 2017

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