Tag: Food

How the scruffy kids of the ’60s youth movement turned cooking from a shameful job into a lauded profession.

An interview with Mark Arax about the two decades he spent writing about the San Joaquin Valley empire of Lynda and Stuart Resnick.

We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories.

Inside the booming business of survival food.

The art of sandwich-making requires “tenacity, knowledge, know-how, flair.”

Food writer Su-Jit Lin contemplates the role of a favorite dish in her relationship with her immigrant chef father.

For over 70 years, Bacha Broot, located in the center of the Old City of Kabul, has been serving chainaki — savory lamb stew — despite Soviet occupation, civil war, and the Taliban.

If craft food culture looks overwhelmingly white, it’s because black influences have been routinely scrubbed from its history.

“He was beginning to think the point of the revelry was to celebrate gluttony, and he wept for the world that his boy would have inherited, had he lived long enough to do so.”

How gendered marketing tropes continue to fuel the latest lifestyle fads.

And sometimes it’s the embodiment of the cages of wealth and privilege we build around ourselves.

Ten years and three presidents, later, Guy Fieri’s populist persona has proven extremely resilient.

In Australia, cupcakes are deployed to wage holy war against halal meat.

Before she was a major power broker in Washington, Rebecca Mercer was a bakery owner. Politico puts her cookies to the test.

A dearth of facilities able to process small farmers’ animals keeps costs up and prices high.

Meet the family turning Las Vegas casino food waste into future meals.

From the chocolate babka to the big salad, Eater serves up 25 favorite food moments from Seinfeld.

How an army of unpaid apprentices keeps the world’s best restaurants afloat.

While searching for a Korean radish to make her grandmother’s soup, Vivien Lee meditates on family and food.

Libby Copeland talks to butter aficionado and food writer Elaine Khosrova about the history of butter and how to savor it. But is it good for us or not?

Paula Wolfert’s groundbreaking cookbooks changed the way we eat. An Alzheimer’s diagnosis changed her life, but not her outlook.

The secret sweet and salty comfort food that fuels the NBA? None other than the lowly, delicious, peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

Eight must-read essays on how we cook and how we eat.

At The Ringer, Bryan Curtis examines how food writers became the rock critics of our time.

At Food52, Mayukh Sen recounts the glory years of Manhattan’s best DIY soul food restaurant, Little Kitchen, and tries to understand the final years of its beloved proprietor, who left without a trace.

Michelle Allison pens an essay in The Atlantic our relationship to food and what really underlies our obsession with food choice and finding the “best” diet.

At The Awl, Elaheh Nozari explores food in the work of Haruki Murakami: how food not only offers comfort and nutrition, but about how what we eat speaks to our emotional state and who we are as people.

Monica Uszerowicz reflects on what living through the Holocaust does to a survivor’s relationship to food, hunger, and eating for pleasure, and how these relationships get passed on to successive generations.

It’s always the same: a morning arrives in November, and my friend, as though officially inaugurating the Christmas time of year that exhilarates her imagination and fuels the blaze of her heart, announces: “It’s fruitcake weather! Fetch our buggy. Help me find my hat.” “A Christmas Memory,” Truman Capote ’Tis the season! A time for awkwardly posed […]

A story about a food writer, his guide, and bowl upon bowl of spicy Sichuanese noodles.