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How to Bake a Pie for the Holidays: Long Ago Lessons from My Mom

How to Bake a Pie for the Holidays: Long Ago Lessons from My Mom

David Howard Will Never Quite Get the Crust Right...

By David Howard | December 20, 2017

Now You Too Can Bake Like Emily Dickinson This Holiday Season

Now You Too Can Bake Like Emily Dickinson This Holiday Season

7 Delicious Recipes from a Great American Poet

By Emily Temple | December 8, 2017

Currybooks: On Authenticity and Our Expectations of South Asian Writers

Currybooks: On Authenticity and Our Expectations of South Asian Writers

Diasporic Writers Have to Play Both Tourist and Tour Guide

By Naben Ruthnum | October 23, 2017

How New Orleans Became the Paris of the Mississippi

How New Orleans Became the Paris of the Mississippi

A Cultural Magnet and Melting Pot, From the 1920s to Today

By Peter J. Marina | September 28, 2017

The Little Known, Much Loved Cookbook That Was Ahead of Its Time

The Little Known, Much Loved Cookbook That Was Ahead of Its Time

On Patience Gray's Honey from a Weed

By Adam Federman | September 14, 2017

How French Cuisine Took Over the World

How French Cuisine Took Over the World

(And the Early Cookbook Industry)

By Henry Notaker | September 13, 2017

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Another Way New York City is Dying: The Rise of Fauxstalgia

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Against Foodies: Lessons from Eating Out of the Trash

Against Foodies: Lessons from Eating Out of the Trash

Consuming the Dregs of Capitalist Excess

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When the Goodness of a Woman Was Judged By the Bread She Baked

When the Goodness of a Woman Was Judged By the Bread She Baked

On Food, Sex, and Domesticity in the 19th Century

By Linda Civitello | July 3, 2017

Eating California's Most Controversial Ice Cream

Eating California's Most Controversial Ice Cream

On the Humphry Slocombe Foie Gras Ice Cream Sandwiches

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The One Thing That Might Save America From Its Terrible Diet

The One Thing That Might Save America From Its Terrible Diet

On the False Promises of Ever-Shifting Food Science

By Michael Ruhlman | May 17, 2017

How I Learned to Cook in a Kitchen With No Electricity or Running Water

How I Learned to Cook in a Kitchen With No Electricity or Running Water

"I felt safe here, in our vegetable kingdom"

By Amy Thielen | May 9, 2017

Walt Whitman's Manly Advice on Travel, Boxing, and Food

Walt Whitman's Manly Advice on Travel, Boxing, and Food

"Manly health! Is there not a kind of fascinating magic in the words?"

By Walt Whitman | April 6, 2017

How to Eat a Really Big Lunch with Jim Harrison

How to Eat a Really Big Lunch with Jim Harrison

Sharing Enchiladas with an Iconic Gourmand

By Peter Nowogrodzki | March 24, 2017

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