Essays

This collection of intimate, illustrated essays by some of America's most well-regarded literary writers explores how comfort food can help us cope...

Food can embody our personal history as well as wider cultural histories. But what are the stories we tell ourselves about the kitchen, and how do ...

Bread is an object that is always in process of becoming something else: flower to grain, grain to dough, dough to loaf, loaf to crumb. Bread is al...

The burger, long the All-American meal, is undergoing an identity crisis. From its shifting place in popular culture to efforts by investors such a...

Coffee--it's the thing that gets us through, and over, and around. The thing--the beverage, the break, the ritual--we choose to slow ourselves down...

Baked potatoes, Bombay potatoes, pommes frites... everyone eats potatoes, but what do they mean? To the United Nations they mean global food securi...