Writing
Features & Favorites
Why American Jews Eat Chinese Food on Christmas
Tablet Magazine
My Hidden Houston
The Atlantic
‘Baker Street’: The Mystery of Rock's Greatest Sax Riff
Taco Bell Gave Me a Cell Phone. It Came With a Past.
The Atlantic
The United States of Billy Joel
Reviews & Interviews
The Atlantic
Michael Pollan: ‘Cooked’ and the Luxury of Time
The Atlantic
‘The Gefilte Manifesto’: How Gefilte Fish Got Its Groove Back
The Wall Street Journal
Robert Sietsema’s New York in a Dozen Dishes
Texas Monthly
Bum Phillips Inspires an Opera
The Atlantic
What Happened to Nina Simone?
The Atlantic
How the Great Depression Still Shapes the Way Americans Eat
The Atlantic
Tzipi Livni: ‘Israel Needs Borders—and Peace’
The Atlantic
‘The Founder’: How Ray Kroc Became an American Villain
The Atlantic
Action Bronson: Where James Beard Meets Rap
Politics & Foreign Affairs
The Washington Post
Capitol Rioters Weren’t Just Clowns and Militants.
They’re Our Neighbors.
The Atlantic
In Prison, Ramen Is the New Cigarettes
The Atlantic
The Yemeni Bodega Strike
The Atlantic
How Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast Became a Bestseller in France After the Paris Attacks
The Atlantic
Why Obama Told Ohio to Go to Taco Bell
The Atlantic
The Sad Fate and Historic Legacy of the Houston Astrodome
Slate
The Atlantic
New York Times
Nothing Can Replace the Bodega