• Food

    Chefs

    From a Rural Mexican Village to Creating Haute Cuisine in the Big City

    By Laura Tillman  May 30, 2023
    Summer reading

    25 Nonfiction Books You Need to Read This Summer

    By Literary Hub  May 25, 2023
    Recipes

    Kate Lebo on Making and Remaking Recipes On and Off the Page

    By Kate Lebo  May 24, 2023
    Food Writing

    Kwame Alexander on the Legacies of Love Passed Down Through Food

    By Kwame Alexander  May 23, 2023
    Family Stories

    Enjoy Your Bread! On the Unlikely Discovery of an Old Family Recipe

    By Luis Jaramillo  May 15, 2023
    Feminism

    Chana Porter and Cole Kazdin Talk Food and Feminism

    By Literary Hub  May 5, 2023
    Indian Food

    Finding Words in the Kitchen (Or: How I Stopped Hating Myself and Started Cooking)

    By Diksha Basu  April 26, 2023
    Farming

    “No Bees, No Food.” How Insects Help Farmers With Their Harvest

    By Louise Gray  April 21, 2023
    Friendships

    Why We All Need Dinner Parties in Our Lives

    By Natasha Feldman  April 20, 2023
    Keen On

    Matt Moore Talks Meat, Butcher Shops and Where to Find the Best Lebanese Food in America

    By Keen On  April 14, 2023
    Cocktails

    Cocktails in Honor of Two Literary Greats: Virginia Woolf and Zora Neale Hurston

    By Jennifer Croll  April 13, 2023
    American History

    How a War Over Eggs Marked the Early History of San Francisco

    By Lizzie Stark  March 29, 2023
    Food Writing

    Finding Memories of a Distant Home Through Milo Toast

    By Rachel Heng  March 28, 2023
    Food Memoirs

    Remembering the Egyptian Childhood I Never Had Through Its Culinary Traditions

    By Jasmin Attia  March 27, 2023
    Cooking

    How Two Pieces of Art 50 Years Apart Helped Me Hate Cooking a Little Bit Less

    By Rosalynn Tyo  March 23, 2023
    Homecooking

    Why Authenticity Doesn’t Exist When It Comes To Food

    By Ronnie Woo  March 16, 2023
    AWP

    72 Hours in Seattle: Where to Eat, Drink, and Visit During AWP 2023

    By Literary Hub  March 7, 2023
    Etymologies

    What’s In a Meal? On the Linguistic Origins of “Lunchtime”

    By Judith Tschann  February 21, 2023
    Presidential Power

    More Than A Meal: How White House Dinners Shape Presidential Policy

    By Alex Prud’homme  February 8, 2023
    Food History

    How America Came to Enthusiastically Embrace Sushi

    By Lisa Kingsley  February 8, 2023
    Food History

    The Invention of Fettuccine Alfredo: A Love Story

    By Luca Cesari  January 26, 2023
    Economics

    Debunking the Coconut Myth: An Economist Breaks Down a Fundamental Misunderstanding of the Cause of Poverty in Poor Countries

    By Ha-Joon Chang  January 20, 2023
    Most Anticipated

    Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2023

    By Literary Hub  January 12, 2023
    Just the Right Book

    Jacques Pepin on the Essence of the Chicken

    By Just the Right Book   December 29, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    AudioFile Favorites: Zabar’s

    By Behind the Mic   December 21, 2022
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