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25 Most Important Recipes of the Past 100 Years November 21, 2024
When we initially reached out to scores of chefs, recipe writers, historians, and food luminaries for nominations for their most important American recipes of the past 100 years—Which written recipes were the most influential, pivotal, or transformat...
The Year of Magical Eating November 08, 2024
For dinner, Stanley Tucci’s youngest daughter, Emilia, six, only eats pasta and cheese, a bit of butter. Occasionally, she will accept pesto. As you can imagine, this pains him. Tucci is a man of deep-fried courgette, the giant timpano, barolo and sq...
What I’ve Learned: Ina Garten October 02, 2024
Ina Garten, seventy-six, is one of the most beloved and successful figures in American culinary history. It all began in 1978, when she left her role writing nuclear-energy budgets at the White House to purchase Barefoot Contessa, a specialty food st...
A Garten Party September 30, 2024
It may surprise you to learn that Ina Garten, the merry purveyor of famously comforting delicacies such as “outrageous” chocolate brownies (a dash of instant coffee and less flour is the key), the “perfect” roast chicken (pay attention to those sauté...
Is Culture Dying? September 18, 2024
My mother, who is Chinese, grew up in Malaysia and came to America for college, in the nineteen-seventies. She and my American dad divorced when I was small, and this allowed her to make her suburban household as Malaysian as possible. She and my gra...
Scenes From The Literary Blacklist September 16, 2024
In 2022, we were the fiction co-editors for Crab Creek Review, a long-standing, independent literary magazine. Crab Creek Review is the kind of small publication where writers get their first break and, hopefully, go on to literary stardom and a book...
The 16 Best Cookbooks of Fall 2024 September 11, 2024
YouYou know the drill: According to the calendar, it’s fall now, and that means it’s time to Get Serious — about school and work, about the impossible task of emotionally preparing yourself for the upcoming election, and, of course, about cooking. Be...
The Weirdest Night in Pop February 23, 2024
If you’ve heard “We Are the World,” the 1985 charity single by the American super-duper group U.S.A. for Africa, you might be forgiven for wondering why a documentary about it, recently released on Netflix, is called “The Greatest Night in Pop.” Musi...
Cooking with Franz Kafka February 23, 2024
In Franz Kafka’s first published story, “Description of a Struggle,” the narrator is sitting in a drawing room at a rickety little table, eating a piece of fruitcake that “did not taste very good,” when a man walks up to him. The man is described as ...
A Techno-Industrialist Manifesto February 22, 2024
The marriage of technology and manufacturing could be the salvation for which our nation is searching. The prospect of 4%+ GDP growth does not come from SaaS, banking, real estate, investing, or AI. The opportunity to achieve sustainable GDP expansio...
The Drama of 'Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf'? February 16, 2024
Many of us who grew up in America’s middle-class suburbs of the 1950s and ’60s rarely experienced the ideal families encountered on television sitcoms—the Cleavers, Petries, and Father Knows Bests who just didn’t suffer serious emotional conflicts be...
Eat and Be Eaten February 09, 2024
The café was hers, and so of course it was named after her. I came upon Sissy’s late one afternoon in January of 2017, when I was young and careless and in Kamakura, Japan. I had spent the day wandering the hills (my photos are of graves, statues, th...
Martha Stewart Has Always Been in Control January 30, 2024
What’s your mental image of Martha Stewart? Is it Stewart in her classic cookbooks, like Entertaining, which taught a generation how to host? Is it Stewart, as seen on Martha Stewart Living, picking flowers, harvesting eggs, and plotting out garden d...
Game Changer January 09, 2024
I killed my first deer in the Sierra foothills of northern California, one of the landmark moments of my still-young life, somewhat akin to Ralphie Parker opening up his iconic Red Ryder BB gun on that fateful Christmas morning.Like the kid in the ho...
The Year the Millennial Internet Died January 02, 2024
The millennial internet first died in 2015.I remember the day exactly because I was one of seven staffers, in addition to many more permalancers, at Gawker Media who were laid off as part of a company-wide restructuring. I received a message on Slack...
