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?
