• Food

    The Hub

    Cover reveal: Oxford American’s Spring 2021 Food Issue, guest edited by Alice Randall.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  February 19, 2021
    Keen On

    Why Returning to Traditional Farming Isn’t the Answer

    By Keen On  February 17, 2021
    Cooking

    Cooking Thịt Kho, and Remembering What it Means to Be Vietnamese

    By Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood  February 16, 2021
    Food History

    On the Complexity of Using the Mango as a Symbol in Diasporic Literature

    By Urvi Kumbhat  February 8, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Andrew Keen in Conversation with Robert Paarlberg

    By The Virtual Book Channel  February 2, 2021
    Sustainability

    Mark Bittman: We Need an Agroecological Revolution

    By Mark Bittman  February 1, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    The Nom Wah Cookbook by Wilson Tang, Read by the Author

    By Behind the Mic   January 27, 2021
    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
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