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Jack Monroe Has Written a Cookbook for Food Bank Users
The food writer and campaigner rose to fame in 2012 after her blog on food poverty went viral. She tells us about ‘Tin Can Cook,’ the canned food recipe book she wishes she’d had as a food bank user.
‘The Way We Eat Now’ Untangles the Confusing World of Modern Eating
Bee Wilson's new book is a rigorous look at the global and economic forces that shape how we feed ourselves.
‘Heartburn’ Is Still the Best Book About Food and Breakups
Thirty-five years on from its publication, Nora Ephron’s semi-autobiographical novel is an all-too-human declaration of gustatory independence.
Eating Meat Might Kill Me
I keep eating meat because the danger has heightened the pleasure factor, like bareback sex, mainlining heroin, base jumping, or motorcycling sans helmet even though it might kill me.
I Can't Be a Food Writer Because I Nearly Choked to Death
I will never give you a five-star review. In fact, I will probably never review your restaurant.
Why 80-Year-Old White Humorists Shouldn't Write About Ethnic Nuances in Chinese Food
The internet’s main beef, if you will, with the poem is that it appears to play on stereotypes of China as a teeming country of faceless billions, wholly incomprehensible to Westerners.
We Spoke to the Chef Who Tricked 40 Food Writers Into Eating McDonald’s
Last week, chef Neal Fraser invited 40 of Los Angeles’ most influential food writers to a dinner, secretly prepared from McDonald’s food. We called him to find out what went down.
Being a Food Writer Made Me Lose My Appetite
After a string of mediocre hookups, I opted to take a sabbatical from shagging. Filling my nights with pastries instead of sex—plus fact that I had recently taken a new job as a food writer—eventually resulted in an unsavory outcome: I stopped caring...
All Chefs Hate All Food Writers
Chefs are right to hate food writers. Writers, especially critics, are entitled yet uninformed, and get perks that normal diners can only dream of—all at the chef's expense. Here are nine reasons writers like me inspire such loathing from the...
Lambstock Leaves Me Weak
Lambstock is a large, semilegendary, lamb-centric event held annually somewhere in Virginia. I say "somewhere" because, even after attending last weekend, I’m still not sure where it is, exactly. I’ve heard the event called the Burning Man of...