Food & Drink

"We all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top." — Hunter S. Thompson

How Should a Farm Be?
Farmer Joel Salatin brings us the word.
Wyatt WilliamsJun 16, 2016
- Food & Drink
- Religion
Keeping the Wolf At Bay: The Hunger for a Better Food System
Kate Christensen attempts to follow in the tradition of M. F. K. Fisher’s classic “How to Cook a Wolf” for her “culinary memoir.”
Simran SethiJun 15, 2016
- Food & Drink
Eating the Canon
Christina Hardyment compiles a compendium of literary meals in "Pleasures of the Table: A Literary Anthology."
Rachel PastanApr 18, 2016
- Food & Drink
To Save Something, We Have to Eat It
Simran Sethi blames our narrow diet on the increasing loss of our agricultural biodiversity.
Larissa ZimberoffApr 16, 2016
- Food & Drink
Sausage Subversion
Geoff NicholsonApr 5, 2016
- Food & Drink
Unpacking Our Palates
Bee Wilson tackles our complex relationship to food as well as how we transfer our pleasure response from the foods we love to the foods we should love.
Susan PaganiMar 18, 2016
- Food & Drink
“We’ll Eat You Up — We Love You So!” Why Children’s Cookbooks Matter
Food is community building; so is literature. But, most of all, food is narrative.
Leigh BennettNov 26, 2015
- Food & Drink
Notes on “Note-by-Note”: A New Molecular Cuisine?
You are what you think you are eating.
Benjamin Aldes WurgaftMar 5, 2015
- Food & Drink
- Science & Technology
Name Your Poison: A Brief, Highly Subjective History of Culinary Crime
"Readers will never look at a duck press the same way again."
Katherine Hall PageDec 19, 2014
Spirited Away
Alcohol or civilization: which came first?
John T. ScottOct 20, 2014
- Food & Drink
Foraging for Love
“But romantic love is not where Chin’s memoir starts. Like a skilled forager, we start slowly.”
Larissa ZimberoffSep 10, 2014
- Food & Drink
Killing It
Local parsnips are nice, but artisanal killing is the food movement’s perfection.
Jedediah PurdySep 7, 2014
- Food & Drink