Food Writing

The Poetry of the World’s First Cookbook: What Cooking Can Teach Writers and Translators

Aditi Machado on the Literary Power of Food Descriptions

 
By Aditi Machado  July 2, 2024
Food Writing

In Defense of Food Memory in Immigrant Fiction

By Jessica Zhan Mei Yu  April 1, 2024
Chinese Food

The Marvels of Qu: What Makes Chinese Food and Drink Unique

By Fuchsia Dunlop  November 21, 2023
Food Writing

On Grief, Pizza, and the Power of Food to Evoke Memory

By Adam Dalva  July 24, 2023
Food Writing

Finding Radical Potential in Nigella Lawson’s Food

By Rebecca May Johnson  June 7, 2023
Food Writing

Kwame Alexander on the Legacies of Love Passed Down Through Food

By Kwame Alexander  May 23, 2023
Food Writing

Finding Memories of a Distant Home Through Milo Toast

By Rachel Heng  March 28, 2023
Food Writing

Versatile, Universal, and Delicious: Karon Liu on the Magic of Dumplings

By Karon Liu  October 27, 2022
Food Writing

“I’d Read Her Grocery Lists.” On Cooking with Sylvia Plath

By Eliza Dumais  October 27, 2022
Food Writing

Every Foodie Has an
Origin Story

By Deborah Madison  November 13, 2020
Food Writing

What It’s Been Like to Run the First American Diner in Paris

By Craig Carlson  July 13, 2020
Food Writing

In Praise of Digression, Both Literary and Culinary

By Thom Eagle  June 5, 2020
Food Writing

Let Us Now Praise… The Onion

By Thom Eagle  March 10, 2020
Food Writing

How Judith Jones Radically Transformed American Food Writing

By Sara B. Franklin  March 10, 2020

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