Spectator Life

It’s the Taylor Swift of snacks

There’s no taste like home

What bubbles up must go down

A frothy tour of Vienna’s coffeehouses

According to French tradition, it is wrong to throw away old bread because it is sacred

Alison Roman’s tastes are like my father’s: particular, strident and requiring a capacious definition of the word ‘unfussy’

I have some good advice about some things you might want to drink after you have gathered with one or two appropriate friends

Even closing liquor stores temporarily is dovetailing into a minor if global trend towards prohibition

A Healdsburg symposium

Seacuterie is a delicious but annoying culinary portmanteau

A cuisine in crisis

Online carno-forums are growing like mushrooms (which I no longer eat)

Forget Kraft Singles: North American cheesemaking is thriving

We tasted six or seven maturing wines straight from the barrel. It was a little like watching some young ballerinas

Frozen in culinary time

How to handle Lent

Dining out at the Trump DC

Wine may have been born in Virginia, but it matured elsewhere

Veganuary was not for chickens

Animals deserve to be treated well in life and that consumers deserve to know how animals are treated

The effortlessly stick-thin Parisienne is a mythical creature

Foraging for mushrooms and the taste of freedom in eastern Europe, 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall

Who’s footing the bill?

The immigrant origins of the all-American meal

Hundreds of customers can be seen snaking around the block, eagerly awaiting tubs and cones of buttery, sugary batter

The ban is about much more than animal rights. It is about punishing the rich. And it has to be, because the animal-rights case has no merit

Everything at One Eight Distilling is good. The vodka is somehow bearable. The rye is melt-your-face fantastic

Welcome to the new meal deal