Eating Alone By Longreads Feature We’re eating alone more often than in any previous generation. But why should a meal on our own be uninspired? Why shouldn’t the French saying “life is too short to drink bad wine” still apply?
The Difference Between Being Broke and Being Poor By Erynn Brook Feature It’s a recognition that comes in the aisle of a grocery store.
Farming A Warming Planet: An Interview Nathanael Johnson By Aaron Gilbreath Commentary How California farmers are planning ahead for climate change while balancing their immediate economic concerns.
Wild At Heart By Longreads Feature They perform daring escapes from slaughterhouses, zoos, and laboratories. But animals on the run are only as free as we want them to be.
A Family’s Pear Pie Tradition Binds Them Together By Danielle Jackson Highlight A woman makes sand-pear pie with her grandmother and remembers a family ritual.
“We All Had the Same Acid Flashback at the Same Time”: The New American Cuisine By Longreads Feature How the scruffy kids of the ’60s youth movement turned cooking from a shameful job into a lauded profession.
It’s a Wonderful World: The Remaking of California Agriculture By Aaron Gilbreath Feature An interview with Mark Arax about the two decades he spent writing about the San Joaquin Valley empire of Lynda and Stuart Resnick.
Longreads Best of 2017: Food Writing By Longreads Reading List We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories.
Suburbanizing Survivalism By Aaron Gilbreath Commentary Inside the booming business of survival food.
The Sandwich Whisperer of Victoria Street By Ben Huberman Highlight The art of sandwich-making requires “tenacity, knowledge, know-how, flair.”
Roast Duck Soup for the Chinese-American Daughter’s Soul By Su-Jit Feature Food writer Su-Jit Lin contemplates the role of a favorite dish in her relationship with her immigrant chef father.
The Oldest Restaurant in Kabul: Where Tradition Trumps Rockets By Maija Liuhto Feature 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.
Moonshine: The Black Tradition of Distilling ‘White Whiskey’ By Ben Huberman Highlight If craft food culture looks overwhelmingly white, it’s because black influences have been routinely scrubbed from its history.
Eating the Texas State Fair By Pam Mandel Highlight “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.”
If Clean Food Is for Everyone, Why Are Its Gurus All Young, Pretty Women? By Ben Huberman Highlight How gendered marketing tropes continue to fuel the latest lifestyle fads.
Sometimes a Bowl of Soup is Just a Bowl of Soup By Michelle Weber Highlight And sometimes it’s the embodiment of the cages of wealth and privilege we build around ourselves.
Guy Fieri’s Introspective Turn By Ben Huberman Highlight Ten years and three presidents, later, Guy Fieri’s populist persona has proven extremely resilient.
Are We Swallowing Culinary Propaganda? By Shane Cubis Highlight In Australia, cupcakes are deployed to wage holy war against halal meat.
Cookie Tasting with Trump’s Billionaire Backer By Pam Mandel Commentary Before she was a major power broker in Washington, Rebecca Mercer was a bakery owner. Politico puts her cookies to the test.
America’s Small Farmers Need More Slaughterhouses By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight A dearth of facilities able to process small farmers’ animals keeps costs up and prices high.
The Circle of Las Vegas Life Is One Never-Ending Buffet By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Meet the family turning Las Vegas casino food waste into future meals.
Top of the Muffin to You! 25 Great Food Moments in “Seinfeld” By Krista Stevens Highlight From the chocolate babka to the big salad, Eater serves up 25 favorite food moments from Seinfeld.
Haute Cuisine Has a Low Wage Problem By Ben Huberman Highlight How an army of unpaid apprentices keeps the world’s best restaurants afloat.
What it Means to be Korean in the West By Krista Stevens Highlight While searching for a Korean radish to make her grandmother’s soup, Vivien Lee meditates on family and food.
I Can Totally Believe It’s Actually Butter! By Michelle Weber Highlight 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?
A Culinary Legend’s Next Fight By unforgettablepaula Feature Paula Wolfert’s groundbreaking cookbooks changed the way we eat. An Alzheimer’s diagnosis changed her life, but not her outlook.
Peanut Butter and Jelly: The NBA’s Secret Addiction By Krista Stevens Highlight The secret sweet and salty comfort food that fuels the NBA? None other than the lowly, delicious, peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Back in the Kitchen: A Reading List About Gender and Food By Emily Perper Reading List Eight must-read essays on how we cook and how we eat.
So Many Food Writers Under the House-Made Polenta Sun By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight At The Ringer, Bryan Curtis examines how food writers became the rock critics of our time.
Celebrating New York City’s Early Soul Food Celebrity Chef, Princess Pamela By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight 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.
