Hungry Babies
by Samira KawashBreastfeeding, along with its nutritional benefits, wages war against the instrumentalization of female reproductivity. Continue Reading »
Breastfeeding, along with its nutritional benefits, wages war against the instrumentalization of female reproductivity. Continue Reading »
Diners teach us that our kind of people isn’t the center of the universe. Continue Reading »
The modern food system is essentially its own religious system, using a network of symbols and phrases to make moral claims and create its own sacred-profane distinction. Continue Reading »
If you arrive at Kim’s Diner before noon, your best option for breakfast is either the homemade biscuits with Texas-style white gravy or the pancakes-and-sausage plate. Lunch and dinner offerings are good, basic American food: grilled burgers and sandwiches half-wrapped in butcher paper so they . . . . Continue Reading »
If you yourself are not obliged to observe Kosher, or if you simply elect not to (only a minority of Jews actually do), you must have wondered from time to time: What’s the point? You can eat meat after dairy products, but you cannot consume dairy after meat? (And mixed together—a . . . . Continue Reading »
Thoughts on E. D. Hirsch, Michael Pollan, and Elena Ferrante from the editors. Continue Reading »
For those of us who were adults before the advent of the Internet, a three-ring binder was the best way to keep track of our favorite recipes. Most of the women I know still have one, filled with recipes torn from magazines or printed from websites, handwritten by friends on index cards and . . . . Continue Reading »
Chick-fil-A will cease charitable giving to the Salvation Army and Fellowship of Christian Athletes, two organizations that progressives have attacked for not affirming LGBTQ+ individuals. Continue Reading »
If we are to indulge in our carnivorous urges, we ought to refine our tastes upward from living beasts. Continue Reading »
In the ruins of Ostia Antica, where Roman roads have disintegrated into a tangle of worn stones and earth, past market stalls where tall grasses jut from meticulously laid mosaic floors, one can find about three dozen stone basins in which bakers once placed bread dough to rise. This is one of . . . . Continue Reading »