The New Yorker’s annual food issue will be on shelves this week, according to a press release they sent me. Check your newsstand or independent bookstore for copies: The food issue always has interesting content.
This year’s topics:
- How Could One Collector Find So Much Rare Fine Wine? - a story of fine-wine fraud
- Does Street Food Make the Best Cuisine? - Calvin Trillin on Singapore’s street food
- Eating the Fruits of the Five Boroughs - Adam Gopnik tries an extreme Eat Local Challenge: Food from New York City's boroughts.
- Claudia Roden’s Culinary Diaspora - profile of the prolific cookbook author
- You Are What You Don’t Eat - Judith Thurman goes to a spa
And more, from the press release:
The Food Issue also includes seven sidebars about memorable family dinners, including: David Sedaris on meals without flavor (p. 98); Anthony Lane on eating artichokes (p. 104); Alexsandar Hemon on yearning for home-cooked meals from the war front (p. 58); Gary Shteyngart on assimilation by way of McDonald’s (p. 70); Donald Antrim on his father’s gourmet ambitions (p. 112); Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on the quintessential Nigerian dish (p. 92); and Nell Freudenberger on a welcoming feast in Bangladesh (p. 80).
