The American dream has no time for offal
Why is the US taste in meat so blinkered and narrow?
Food
Saturday
Friday
Coffee with Coleen
Few if any breakfasts equal those I’ve consumed at Coleen’s Kitchen
Tuesday
The culinary wisdom of charity cookbooks
The Ladies’ Charity Cookbooks are neglected historical artifacts
The man in the White Castle
From the pioneers of the bun to the cheek of Earl Butz
Monday
My night at the Cheesecake Factory
The Cheesecake Factory is what a fashionable French writer would create in a novel if he needed a restaurant to embody American food excesses
Monday
I’ve come to love the onion
You name it, you can — and for some reason people always do — put onion in it
I miss America’s sandwiches
If the British public are not introduced to good sandwiches, they will not know what’s possible
Thursday
Can the Mayr diet work at home?
It’s amazing, but when you chew something 60 times, a piece of broccoli starts to taste sumptuous, complex, irresistible
The chowder crowd
A New England classic
Thursday
The diversity dinner
Marrying meatballs with plantains and curry
Sunday
Ten Christmas gifts for an adventurous eater
Bon appétit (and joyeux Noël)
Sunday
Porgy and best
How the porgy became my preferred piscine
Saturday
Game birds
Try Cornish hens for Thanksgiving
Wednesday
In the soup
An appreciation of cuisine’s kindest course
Friday
Eye on the pies: food in the age of ‘cultural appropriation’
Am I, a not-Chinese person, allowed to make sesame buns?
Monday
A Trumpian feast
Dining out at the Trump DC
Saturday
French women do get fat
The effortlessly stick-thin Parisienne is a mythical creature
Wednesday
Standing up to eat is the new line in dining in DC
Who’s footing the bill?
Tuesday
Bowl food: childhood memories have inspired a new craze for cookie dough
Hundreds of customers can be seen snaking around the block, eagerly awaiting tubs and cones of buttery, sugary batter
Friday
Pasta, like all good things, should come to an end
Making pasta — really making it — is a kitchen miracle
