.Food & Drink

Perhaps this is the easiest time in history to make food choices based not only on taste, but sustainability, environmental concerns, promoting good health and vegan or vegetarian preferences. One of the fastest growing food markets is...

Mythologies are built up and around famous chefs, layer upon layer, with the same amount of labor it takes to make daily batches of buttery croissant dough. The biographies of Julia Child, Anthony Bourdain and Alice Waters...

Egyptian tomb paintings and archaeological evidence suggest that there were farmers markets more than 5,000 years ago. Agricultural communities throughout Northern Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Asia had farmers markets in the following centuries. The Boston Market...

“My favorite Azerbaijani restaurant is ____. It’s much easier to fill in that blank when the restaurant in question is Mexican, Vietnamese or French.  Before sitting down to eat at Anar Usubov’s Bistro 4293, I’d read his website’s...

The artists in Anthony Meier’s group show, “Consider the Oyster,” are united, not by their relationship to mollusks, but by a more ephemeral relationship to M.F.K. Fisher’s short book of the same name.  Throughout the work, published in...

Both the use and the mystique of spices goes back centuries. Ancient Egyptians used spices such as coriander, cumin, myrrh, frankincense, cinnamon and ginger in cooking—and also mummification.  The ancient Chinese developed the classic “five-spice blend” of cinnamon,...

In Haruki Murakami’s novels, the melancholic main character will inevitably stave off his ennui by spending time in a smoke-filled, boozy jazz club. The clubs are not only off the beaten path, but they may exist in...