WHISKEY SANTA

WHISKEY SANTA Things have been more than a little stressful around here lately: Just before Christmas I quit my job of ten years as restaurant critic for the alt-weekly City Pages, because this month I'm taking a new one as...

WHICH CAME FIRST, THE CHICKEN OR THE PIG?

WHICH CAME FIRST, THE CHICKEN OR THE PIG? With this week's review of Barbuto in the New York Times, the hottest dish in Manhattan today is. . . roast chicken? It may seem like a simple dish, but when done...

THE MUG METRIC

THE MUG METRIC The best way to get an instant profile of a family at, say, a holiday or dinner party in a strange home, is to locate the mug cupboard and take a good look at the family's mugs....

SPROUTS' HONOR

SPROUTS' HONOR Brussels sprouts are a Thanksgiving tradition in my family, though they do tend to divide us into "love them" and "won't touch them" camps. My brother likes them boiled and rolled in butter and sharp seedy mustard. I...

THE GATHERING ROOM

THE GATHERING ROOM I'm just about to leave the village of Khonoma, in Nagaland, northeastern India, when a gregarious middle-aged man sweeps me into his kitchen. His wife shoves a plate of porridge onto my lap and a cup of...

KEEP IT REAL

KEEP IT REAL Photo: Ken Light Michael Pollan is a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine and is the Director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism at UC Berkeley. He has written extensively about agriculture...

FIRST TASTE: BAR BLANC

FIRST TASTE: BAR BLANC Photo: courtesy Bar Blanc Given its name, it's not surprising that just about everything in this long, luxe lozenge of a room—from chairs to banquets to candles—is white. The effect is sleek enough that you could...

SWALLOWING CLOUDS

SWALLOWING CLOUDS When I was a kid, I spent my summers in Hong Kong, running around with my cousins and fueling our video game binges with street food. With them, I would go to curry fishball carts, to the 7-Eleven...

UDDERLY SERIOUS

Udderly Serious Mark January down as Milk Month. The beverage promises to be much in the news. First stop, Ohio. Apparently having learned nothing from the humiliating boondoggle that erupted late last year when bureaucrats in neighboring Pennsylvania tried to...

WHEN TOM MET JERRY

WHEN TOM MET JERRY Maybe every other barfly around has heard of the Tom & Jerry cocktail but I'd never heard of it when I stumbled across a vat of "Tom and Jerry Batter" in the freezer of a liquor...

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