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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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....

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

Two books on the Trump era offer a mixed blessing. Yes, he’s out of control. But the kitchen may be your best place of refuge....