Ginning Up the Gin Market

Is the gin renaissance a false phenomenon? (By Jordan Mackay)

Your Order Is Politically Incorrect

How to address ethically challenged eaters. (By Helena Echlin)

Polite Society in the Hamptons

How to be a good weekend guest. (By Helena Echlin)

Public Transit Picnic

Is it rude to eat on the subway? (By Helena Echlin)

Masters of the Bean

Today’s coffee connoisseurs want to be on a first-name basis with their roaster. They want to know not only which country the beans came from but which region, or even which “estate.” They obsess over freshness and brew time and... (By Brendan Vaughan)

Kentucky Fried Chicken seeks the Pope’s blessing on its fish sandwich. (By Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic)

An excellent option for locally grown produce is Al’s Fruit Stop, says Melanie Wong. “Celebrity” tomatoes, grown organically in a Geyserville garden, are $1.50 a pound. Al also has locally grown lemon cucumbers... (By C. Thi Nguyen)

Wired goes deep into the cloned-meat controversy. (By Miriam Wolf)

Slate runs a taste test of the prison system’s dreaded Nutraloaf. (By James Norton)

Food Arts reports on a budding effort in southern Wisconsin to expose chefs and food purveyors to one another in record-setting time. (By James Norton)

“Animal” notes in wine can actually appeal. (By Sarah Perry)

A New York magazine piece deconstructs the first meal of the day. (By Traci Vogel)

In Massachusetts, the farmers’ markets are crowded; in Michigan, they’re empty; in Chicago, they’re filled with bitter, sniping customers. (By Nicholas Day)