Salami of the sea
Seacuterie is a delicious but annoying culinary portmanteau
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April 3, 2020
Lure of the jungle
The monkeys have become experts not only at stealing fruit from rooms but also at plundering minibars
March 23, 2020
Save French food!
A cuisine in crisis
March 21, 2020
The carnivore confessions: I’ve never felt better than on my meat-only diet
Online carno-forums are growing like mushrooms (which I no longer eat)
Epicenes and epicures
While his fellow Germans were rounding up résistants, Jünger was visiting Braque and Picasso
March 20, 2020
My ill-fated foray into homeschooling
Those who cannot teach, reach (for a pistol)
March 13, 2020
Do cry for her, Argentina
‘Poor people don’t want someone to protect them who is old and dowdy,’ Eva once explained
March 9, 2020
Addicted to Addis
We downed jugs of turbo, a popular Ethiopian concoction of white wine, beer and Sprite
Say cheese
Forget Kraft Singles: North American cheesemaking is thriving
Want to save public schools? Embrace school choice
The point of education programs isn’t to empower schools — it’s to empower students
March 6, 2020
Vintage Brooklyn: the wines of Red Hook
We tasted six or seven maturing wines straight from the barrel. It was a little like watching some young ballerinas
February 26, 2020
In praise of the Midwestern steakhouse
Frozen in culinary time
February 24, 2020
The fast and the furious
How to handle Lent
Let’s eat: Israeli cuisine is coming of age
Hummus is the cement of the Levant and claimed, like the land, by both Israelis and Palestinians
February 21, 2020
Bloomberg’s education policies deserve much more scrutiny
He got grilled about everything else on Wednesday — why not this?
February 18, 2020
Palermo without borders
At first glimpse there appears to be no serious backlash against incomers
February 17, 2020
A Trumpian feast
Dining out at the Trump DC
February 15, 2020
California bound
Wine may have been born in Virginia, but it matured elsewhere
February 13, 2020
My vegan hell
Veganuary was not for chickens
February 9, 2020
The conservative case for opposing ‘ag-gag’ laws
Animals deserve to be treated well in life and that consumers deserve to know how animals are treated
February 6, 2020
Trump should build to last
People who live in glass boxes shouldn’t throw stones
Espinoza v. Montana is about families, not religion
Is it appropriate for federal funds to be used to enroll students at religious schools?
February 3, 2020
Cape of many colors
Some call Chatham slightly precious, too sure of its own perfection. They have a point
We’re all high-schoolers now
In the age of social media, we have the largest mobs in the history of mankind
January 31, 2020
Academics are trying to get my paper retracted — and some of them haven’t even read it
Philosophy is ultimately about questioning orthodoxies and challenging taboos
January 25, 2020
French women do get fat
The effortlessly stick-thin Parisienne is a mythical creature
January 24, 2020
Back in the USSR
Foraging for mushrooms and the taste of freedom in eastern Europe, 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall
So you’ve been canceled. Here’s how to fight back
Let’s make 2020 the year cancel culture gets canceled
A new mob at Sarah Lawrence College
Hope for Gen Z?