Public Transit Picnic

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

As Seen on TV

Television characters and the food they eat. (By Joe DiStefano)

Stinky Seatmate

What not to eat on planes. (By Helena Echlin)

10 Super Bowl Commercials

Some of our favorite food-and-drink ads from games past. (By Roxanne Webber)

I Want to Be Alone

When solo diners aren’t looking for company. (By Helena Echlin)

Maps and Mash

Google maps plus food equals a cartographic cornucopia. (By Nicholas Day)

How to Start Your Own Dive Bar

Be the boss, bouncer, and favorite bartender. (By Lessley Anderson)

The salesman had had quite enough of my waffling between two overcoats. Howard Turkell, 60-ish and a garment center veteran, was trying to be polite with the weirdo hipster kid who’d turned up at his third-floor shop that... (By Jim Leff)

Intensely useful maps of favorite restaurants. (By Cicely Wedgeworth)

Cheap food gets cheaper, reports the Chicago Tribune. (By James Norton)

A Swedish man eats fast food for 90 days—and loses 60 pounds. (By Miriam Wolf)

Chain and fast-food restaurants from McDonald’s to Subway are customizing their menus to target a new kind of customer: Islamic individuals looking for a meal on the go. (By Tea Austen Weaver)

Despite the fact that fewer people than ever are dieting, fast-food joints keep forcing healthy options down our throats, reports Nation’s Restaurant News. Have “premium entree salads” overstayed their welcome? (By Christy Harrison)

There are Sbarros here, but we opt for pork belly from a corner store and a pancake shop. (By Joshua M. Bernstein)

Higher food cost consumers right in the banh mi. (By Miriam Wolf)