Meeting: Saturday, September 22, 2007

September 3 & 10, 2007

SINGAPORE JOURNAL
Three Chopsticks
Calvin Trillin
A search for the island's best street food.

Q. Are you an adventurous eater? Try everything in the food court? Would you follow Trillin on a walking and eating tour of Chinatown?

ANNALS OF AGRICULTURE
New York Local
Adam Gopnik
Fruits of the five boroughs.

Q. New Yorkers always claim they have the best choices for fresh food...meats and cheeses, produce, bread. Did Gopnik succeed with his experiment? Could it be repeated in DC?

OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS
The Fast Lane
Judith Thurman
Submitting to a regime of hunger.

Q. What would have been the most difficult experience of Thurman's to endure?

PERSONAL HISTORY
My Life List
John McPhee
A world of weird eats.

Q. What's your personal "list"? Would you follow McPhee camping out in the woods?

LETTER FROM EUROPE
Spice Routes
Jane Kramer
Claudia Roden's kitchen.

Q. What does food tell us about a culture? Is it more than just history and geography?

A REPORTER AT LARGE
The Jefferson Bottles
Patrick Radden Keefe
How much rare old wine can one man find?

Q. Which is the least admirable actor in the story? Who would you want to raise a glass with?

FAMILY DINNER

Tasteless
David Sedaris

Q. What's the best joke in this essay? Do you think it's all true? Embellished? Complete fiction?

Choke
Anthony Lane

Q. What other foods are as appropriately and truthfully named as a 'choke?

THE CRITICS
BOOKS
Dante's Paradiso.
Joan Acocella

Q. Does this article inspire enough to attempt a 1000+ page work? In verse? TRANSLATED? Is it that interesting and complex?

Meeting: Saturday, September 1, 2007

The issue of 08-20-2007, published 08-13-2007

The Dark Side
by David Owen
What we're missing in the night sky.

Parallel Play
by Tim Page
Living with Asperger's syndrome.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/08/20/070820fa_fact_page?printable=true

The issue of 08-27-2007, published 08-20-2007

Royals
Posh Spices
by Rebecca Mead
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2007/08/27/070827ta_talk_mead?printable=true

Piggybank Dept.
Driving Drunks
by Ben McGrath
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2007/08/27/070827ta_talk_mcgrath?printable=true

Sowing For Apocalypse
by John Seabrook
The creation of a global seed bank.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/2007/08/27/070827on_audio_seabrook

Lone Sailors
The Antonioni legacy, "Deep Water."
by Anthony Lane
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2007/08/27/070827crci_cinema_lane?printable=true
http://www.newyorker.com/online/2007/08/13/070813on_audio_denby?printable=true

Dollar Diplomacy
The Marshall Plan, sixty years on.
by Niall Ferguson
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/08/27/070827crbo_books_ferguson?printable=true
http://www.newyorker.com/online/2007/08/27/slideshow_070827_marshall?viewall=true#showHeader