CONTENTS

Introduction

THE WAY WE EAT NOW

Age of Innocence, From Saveur

By Jay Rayner

Are Big Flavors Destroying the American Palate?, From Food & Wine

By Kate Krader

A Toast Story, From Pacific Standard

By John Gravois

Five Things I Will Not Eat, From CivilEats.com

By Barry Estabrook

Baconomics 101, From The Tastemakers

By David Sax

The Right to Eat, From Alimentum

By JT Torres

A TABLE FOR EVERYONE

America, Your Food Is So Gay, From Lucky Peach

By John Birdsall

Debts of Pleasure, From the Oxford American

By John T. Edge

The Dignity of Chocolate, From Edible Vancouver

By Eagranie Yuh

The Indulgence of Pickled Baloney, From Gravy

By Silas House

Austerity Measures, From SF Weekly

By Anna Roth

Waiting for the 8th, From the Washington Post

By Eli Saslow

BACK TO BASICS

A Sort of Chicken That We Call Fish, From PoorMansFeast.com

By Elissa Altman

Forget the Clock, Remember Your Food, From Eat Your Vegetables: Bold Recipes for the Single Cook

By Joe Yonan

Meals from a Hunter, From the Minneapolis Star Tribune

By Steve Hoffman

The Man Machine, From Fool

By Oliver Strand

Cooking as the Cornerstone of a Sustainable Food System, From CivilEats.com

By Kim O’Donnel

How to Boil Water, From Eatthelove.com

By Irvin Lin

The Lions of Bangkok Street Food, From RoadsAndKingdoms.com

By Matt Goulding

How to Cook a Turkey, From TheDinnerFiles.com

By Molly Watson

HOME COOKING

And Baby Makes Free-for-All, From Bon Appétit

By Adam Sachs

A French-ish Salad to Feed an Expanding Household

Sense of Self, From FoodThinker.com

By Erin Byers Murray

The Utley Family Angel Food Cake

Creamy Lemon Glaze

The Ghosts of Cakes Past, From ModernSpice.com

By Monica Bhide

Bread and Women, From The New Yorker

By Adam Gopnik

The Science of the Best Chocolate Chip Cookies, From Serious Eats

By J. Kenji López-Alt

The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie

How to Cook Chicken Cutlets, and Give Yourself a Reason to Keep Living, From DeadSpin.com

By Albert Burneko

Smelted, From FullGrownPeople.com

By Sara Bir

STOCKING THE PANTRY

A Green Movement, From Dark Rye

By Jane Black

The 16.9 Carrot, From The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food

By Dan Barber

Monsanto Is Going Organic in a Quest for the Perfect Veggie, From Wired

By Ben Paynter

The Flavor Man, From Edible Cleveland

By Laura Taxel

Cauliflower Tomato Tarka

Yellow Dutch, From Edible Philly

By Rick Nichols

The Forgotten Harvest, From Garden & Gun

By Jack Hitt

SOMEONES IN THE KITCHEN

The Leading Light of Pastry, From Food & Wine

By Alex Halberstadt

Cheapskates, From Edible San Francisco

By Sarah Henry

Sherry Yard’s Sweet Independence, From LA Weekly

By Besha Rodell

A Day on Long Island with Alex Lee, From Lucky Peach

By Francis Lam

Savoring the Now, From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution

By John Kessler

The Tao of Bianco, From Edible Baja Arizona

By Dave Mondy

PERSONAL TASTES

Familiarity Breeds Content, From the New York Times

By Frank Bruni

Everyman’s Fish, From Saveur

By Tom Carson

The Cheese Toast Incident, From FoodForTheThoughtless.com

By Michael Procopio

Because I Can, From Leite’s Culinaria

By David Leite

Homemade Ketchup

Solitary Man, From Saveur

By Josh Ozersky

Tomato Pie, From Tin House

By Ann Hood

Laurie Colwin’s Tomato Pie

EXTREME EATING

The Invasivore’s Dilemma, From Outside Magazine

By Rowan Jacobsen

Learning How to Taste, From Edible: An Adventure into the World of Eating Insects and the Last Great Hope to Save the Planet

By Daniella Martin

Seven Bald Men and a Kumquat Tree, From Gastronomica

By Amy Gentry

Fixed Menu, From Lucky Peach

By Kevin Pang

Last Meals, From Lapham’s Quarterly

By Brent Cunningham

Recipe Index

Permissions Acknowledgments

About the Editor