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FOOD & DRINK

The Midlife Crisis of the American Restaurant Review

Nonfiction, Food & Drink

The Midlife Crisis of the American Restaurant Review

Theodore Gioia

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

Cooking Outside the Lines: A Conversation with Alison Roman

Food & Drink

Cooking Outside the Lines: A Conversation with Alison Roman

Callie Hitchcock

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

Poring Over “Single Malt: A Guide to the Whiskies of Scotland”

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Poring Over “Single Malt: A Guide to the Whiskies of Scotland”

John T. Scott

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

Rooting Out the Dirt: A Conversation with Ryan Jacobs

Around the World, Nonfiction, Food & Drink

Rooting Out the Dirt: A Conversation with Ryan Jacobs

Aaron Shulman

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

L.A. Cooks Itself: On Aleksandra Crapanzano’s “EAT. COOK. L.A.” and Elisa Callow’s “The Urban Forager”

Food & Drink

L.A. Cooks Itself: On Aleksandra Crapanzano’s “EAT. COOK. L.A.” and Elisa Callow’s “The Urban Forager”

India Mandelkern

India Mandelkern on the stories L.A. cookbooks tell in Aleksandra Crapanzano’s "EAT. COOK. L.A." and Elisa Callow’s "The Urban Forager."

Menu Matters: On Alison Pearlman’s “May We Suggest”

Food & Drink, Art & Architecture, Cultural Studies

Menu Matters: On Alison Pearlman’s “May We Suggest”

India Mandelkern

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

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Olivia Durif

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

On Reading Jonathan Gold

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Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft

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

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Olivia Durif

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

A Kitchen Window Peepshow: Eating Wildly and Traveling Widely with Lesley Blanch

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