Most of MFK Fisher’s books are food memoirs, and good to read. So is much of Ludwig Bemelmans’s writing – a lot of his short stories are actually fictionalized memoir, as he grew up in the hotel/restaurant...

...with recipes. Run, do not walk, to find a copy of Diana Abu-Jaber’s “Baklava Love”, a memoir of growing up half Jordanian in Upstate New York and Jordan. Funny and sensitive, she comes close to MFK Fisher at...

For a hopefully slothful vacation after a month of hard work, I am looking for suggestions for the kind of book I love to read in such a context: memoirs about food. What I am thinking of is something like the Ruth Reichls, the...

Books for the plane, the beach, or just curling up in bed.

An interview with Madhur Jaffrey.

A co-production between SMITH Magazine and CHOW.

The dos and don’ts of election conversations.

What to eat at the 2008 Olympic Games in China.

Skin it, tie it up, let it hang: step-by-step instructions to make your own.

Wise words from Julia Child, the great sage of American cooking.

Reading Nigel Slater’s diaries.

A day and night with Marco Pierre White.

Running 1,300 miles makes you very hungry.

Give a gift that results in delicious food.

In which authors display a stunning variety of descriptive powers about food.