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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

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The Deep Metaphorical Power of a Good Cup of Coffee

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By Dinah Lenney | March 19, 2020

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