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What Do You Want From Food Writing?

A Casual Survey of Potato Chips

“Is This Real for Me?”

On Easy Narratives

From the Desk Recommends... Signing Up for the Salon (& Much More)

For Consistency

On May (2025) 🗓

On Having a Vision

On Conversation

“We’ve Won a Certain Kind of Argument”

Plant-Based Is Not a Trend—Yet

How Do We Define a National Cuisine?

On Food Media

The Monthly Menu: I ❤️ Barbajuans

On Francis

From the Desk Recommends... Fighting the Algorithms

On Sincerity, or Mastery, or Something Else Entirely

On April (2025), with an Apology

On Airplane Food ✈️

What Is “Normal” Food?

3 Books for Thinking About Now

The Monthly Menu: A Touch of Gluttony

Paid Subscriber Codes & Links

“That Process of Identifying the Story”

Interlude: A Brief Trip to Lake Como

From the Desk Recommends... Looking Back to Go Forward

On Not Writing a Cookbook

On March (2025) 🗓 — Lots of News!

How Do You Eat? No. 3

The Desk Book Club: ‘Black Food Geographies’ by Ashanté M. Reese

On Copyediting

The Monthly Menu: Lessons in Using What You’ve Got

“An Intellectual Architecture”

Ways of Working: Celebrating 5 Years of From the Desk...

From the Desk Recommends... the Tyranny of Treats

On Gentrification

On February (2025) 🗓

“A Flesh and Blood Portrait”

Against Relatability

The Desk Book Club: ‘The Hunger of Women’ by Marosia Castaldi

Sesame-Ginger Dressing

A Brief Note on Beef

The Monthly Menu: Strange Days

“I Like Being Brutal”

On Criticism

From the Desk Recommends... Forthcoming Books!

On Tradwives

On January (2025) 🗓

On Work & the Internet

The Desk Book Club: ‘Kitchen’ by Banana Yoshimoto

On Biodiversity: A Conversation with Journalist Dan Saladino

The Monthly Menu: The Time of the Big Sandwich

On the Recipe As Object

From the Desk Recommends... More Beans, Duh

On the Politics of Attention in 2025