FOOD & DRINK

Resisting the Food Establishment: On Mayukh Sen’s “Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America”

Sen has brought to light a stellar cast of culinary experts that readers may not know about but should....

SHARMILA MUKHERJEE

FOOD & DRINK

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Building Trust: On Mashama Bailey and John O. Morisano’s “Black, White, and The Grey”

A joint memoir about the development of a restaurant in the Deep South....

AMY BOWERS

FOOD & DRINK

The Involuted Palate, or the Savage Crinkle of Future Snacks

In a delightful essay, Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft suggests “involution” characterizes the food-tech nexus every bit as much as innovation....

BENJAMIN ALDES WURGAFT

FOOD & DRINK

Remember the Bread

A major Yugoslav scholar examines the way the bread we eat becomes a vehicle for human relations....

EMINA MELONIC

FOOD & DRINK

Dishing: On John Birdsall’s “The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard”

An engaging new biography of the pioneer of American cuisine....

BENJAMIN ALDES WURGAFT

FOOD & DRINK

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

In the Back Kitchen

If you could have lunch with a famous person or a departed loved one, whom would you choose?...

DAVID BREITHAUPT

FICTION

FOOD & DRINK

MEMOIR & ESSAY

Land of Milk and Money

Mark Goble tries "The Dairy Restaurant," the new graphic history from Ben Katchor....

MARK GOBLE

FOOD & DRINK

COMICS

CULTURAL STUDIES

Celebrate with a Feast: A Conversation with Irina Georgescu

A new cookbook of Romanian recipes from a celebrated food writer....

JOHN MCINTYRE

AROUND THE WORLD

FOOD & DRINK

CULTURAL STUDIES

Beyond Soul Food

A new book explores the wide range and deep history of African-American cuisine....

OLIVER WANG

FOOD & DRINK

The Midlife Crisis of the American Restaurant Review

Theodore Gioia samples the American restaurant review at present and offers a recipe for the future....

THEODORE GIOIA

NONFICTION

FOOD & DRINK

Cooking Outside the Lines: A Conversation with Alison Roman

A best-selling cookbook author discusses the problems with fad diets and the importance of eating well....

CALLIE HITCHCOCK

FOOD & DRINK

Poring Over “Single Malt: A Guide to the Whiskies of Scotland”

John T. Scott samples “Single Malt: A Guide to the Whiskies of Scotland” by Clay Risen....

JOHN T. SCOTT

AROUND THE WORLD

FOOD & DRINK

HISTORY

Rooting Out the Dirt: A Conversation with Ryan Jacobs

Aaron Shulman interviews a crime reporter who wrote a book about truffles....

AARON SHULMAN

AROUND THE WORLD

NONFICTION

FOOD & DRINK

L.A. Cooks Itself: On Aleksandra Crapanzano’s “EAT. COOK. L.A.” and Elisa Callow’s “The Urban Forager”

India Mandelkern on the stories L.A. cookbooks tell in Aleksandra Crapanzano’s "EAT. COOK. L.A." and Elisa Callow’s "The Urban Forager."...

INDIA MANDELKERN

FOOD & DRINK

Menu Matters: On Alison Pearlman’s “May We Suggest”

India Mandelkern samples “May We Suggest: Restaurant Menus and the Art of Persuasion” by Alison Pearlman....

INDIA MANDELKERN

FOOD & DRINK

ART & ARCHITECTURE

CULTURAL STUDIES

Talking About Food as Cultural Resistance with Monserrat Jarquín

How the drinking of pulque resists the rhythms of industrial capitalism....

OLIVIA DURIF

AROUND THE WORLD

FOOD & DRINK

On Reading Jonathan Gold

Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft remembers Jonathan Gold, who helped him fall in love with Los Angeles....

BENJAMIN ALDES WURGAFT

FOOD & DRINK

MEMOIR & ESSAY

Pouring One Out for Anthony Bourdain

Olivia Durif on Anthony Bourdain, eating with strangers, and the risks of intimacy....

OLIVIA DURIF

AROUND THE WORLD

FOOD & DRINK

A Kitchen Window Peepshow: Eating Wildly and Traveling Widely with Lesley Blanch

Caroline Eden relishes the food writing of Lesley Blanch, author of the recently republished “Journey into the Mind’s Eye.”...

CAROLINE EDEN

AROUND THE WORLD

FOOD & DRINK

The Hat: Remembering Jonathan Gold

Michael Jaime-Becerra offers his thanks to legendary food writer Jonathan Gold....

MICHAEL JAIME-BECERRA

NONFICTION

FOOD & DRINK

Justice Among the Jell-O Recipes: The Feminist History of Food Journalism

Suzanne Cope rescues the true history of food journalism from erasure....

SUZANNE COPE

FOOD & DRINK

MEMOIR & ESSAY

GENDER & SEXUALITY

Rounding Up the Risks of Big Ag

Elena Conis considers “Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science” by Carey Gillam....

ELENA CONIS

FOOD & DRINK

POLITICS

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Nobody Is Safe: Disordered Eating in the Age of Foodies

On "Feast: True Love in and out of the Kitchen," Hannah Howard’s book about coming of age in the New York food scene with an eating disorder....

SUSAN PAGANI

FOOD & DRINK

MEMOIR & ESSAY

The Promise of Kibbeh: On Amir Nizar Zuabi’s “Oh My Sweet Land”

Shoshana Olidort finds sustenance in Amir Nizar Zuabi’s solo show “Oh My Sweet Land.”...

SHOSHANA OLIDORT

AROUND THE WORLD

FOOD & DRINK

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