Kitchen Chronicles
A hundred years of great writing, curated for The New Yorker’s centenary.
Ina Garten and the Age of Abundance
The Barefoot Contessa looks back at a career built on fantasies of comfort and plenty.
By Molly Fischer
Chronicles of a Bubble-Tea Addict
Boba and I spent our adolescence as scrappy, enterprising immigrants at America’s periphery. For a new generation, it’s a ubiquitous, Instagram-friendly mark of Asian identity.
By Jiayang Fan
Bread Pudding and the Comforts of Queer Baking
The American South is indisputably a bread-pudding capital. On my block, no one had any real money, but, for bread pudding, you didn’t need it.
By Bryan Washington
How to Eat Candy Like a Swedish Person
Scandinavia, in general, is crazy for candy, but no one eats more than the Swedes.
By Hannah Goldfield
Thoughts of an Eater with Smoke in His Eyes
The civic pride of Memphis’s biggest barbecue contest.
By Calvin Trillin
Cooking with Julia Child
Her tendency to slap and sniff and taste everything without losing a shred of her dignity was there from the beginning.
By Calvin Tomkins
Kentucky∼Fried
A perfectionist in an imperfect world, he dreams of fried chicken so golden and delicious that it will bring tears to the eyes of a grown man.
By William Whitworth
How Coca-Cola Conquered the World
European royalty drinks it; so did Hitler. Across much of the planet, it’s a challenge to find anyone who hasn’t.
By E. J. Kahn, Jr.
Just a Little One
If you would ask the waiter to bring a fairly sharp knife, I could cut off a nice little block of the atmosphere, to take home with me.
By Dorothy Parker