Eye on the pies: food in the age of ‘cultural appropriation’
Am I, a not-Chinese person, allowed to make sesame buns?
Food
Friday
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
Monday
The strange tale of the Deep Fried BBQ Stuffed Chicken Pizzadilla
On the internet, someone is always profiting from your amusement
Tuesday
The Spectator USA guide to eating bugs
Are we too antsy about the meat we eat?
Monday
Fact check: New York Times’s London foodie ‘knowledge’
The New York Times is at it again. It was only back in May that Spectator USA was forced to call into question the paper’s coverage of Britain, after a curious article on ‘Austerity Britain’ by one Peter S Goodman appeared, complete with a slew of glaring omissions. Well, now it seems that the NYT has staggered off its stool for another bruising round. A food review of London has been published in its Blighty-sceptic pages, and it can’t be said to be very much better than poor Mr Goodman’s. The author, Robert Draper, has written an article about the capital’s food scene, in which he praises the city for having turned its back
