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Nigel Slater, played by Freddie Highmore, digs into his stepmother's lemon meringue pie while his own trifle sits on the sidelines.

Toast, A Coming of Age Story Told Through Food

Why decant wines?

Is Decanting Wine Worth Doing?

Does the practice really improve the taste or is it just a wine snob’s affectation?

Is it possible to forget a few bad food memories and have a healthy relationship with a foodstuff?

Inviting Writing: Food and Reconciliation

Brown rice

Five Nobel Laureates Who Made Food History

These five Nobelists have made food safer or more available, or increased our knowledge of it

Bound

Law and Order: New Culinary Crimes

Burglary, felony theft, criminal mischief, abusing a corpse—last month alone was rife with food-related crimes and convictions

Colonel Sanders, a great Halloween costume idea

Stuck for a Halloween Costume Idea? Think Food

Paula Deen, Colonel Sanders, the Swedish Chef—the food world is rife with costume potential

How will you be working with pumpkins in your kitchen this fall?

Five Ways to Cook With Pumpkin

It’s time to think outside the pie crust and consider other ways you can put pumpkin on your table

Always beware of sharp knives.

Inviting Writing: Independence Won By Blood

My first meal alone in a new city was delayed due to an unexpected test of survival skills

As long as you're careful not to spill, the computer can get you a great culinary education.

An Online Food Education

Sharpen your cooking skills, get a culinary degree, learn to write about food or feed your inner geek with these courses

With veggies like these, would you make soup or music?

The Sweet Sound of… Vegetables?

Vienna’s Vegetable Orchestra makes music by thunking on pumpkins and making carrot recorders and cucumberphones

Farming and new media are not mutually exclusive.

The Farmer and the Dell—or the iPhone

New technology is taking the farmer-consumer relationship to another level

Brazilian bombshell Carmen Miranda, the lady in the tutti-frutti hat

Vogue Vittles: The Cross Between Food and Fashion

Before Lady Gaga’s beef dress, there were Wonder Bread raincoats, waffle pants and Marilyn Monroe in a potato sack

A wild boar doing some damage

Inviting Writing: When Independence Means Self-Reliance

We were well on our way to a nice harvest when we noticed ominous signs, a presence that ravaged our homestead in the middle of the night

A slice of buttermilk pie

Five Ways to Eat Buttermilk

Few people drink the sour-tasting dairy drink, but, oh, the things it can do in tandem with other ingredients

"We Were Made For Each Other"

Meet Anthropomorphized Foods Artist Terry Border

The origin of the Michigan hot dog is murky

The Annals of Geographically Confused Foods: Michigan Hot Dogs from New York

The legend of the michigan is as murky as the water in a hot-dog vendor’s cart at the end of the day

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Shark Fin Soup in Hot Water

Thirty cents could get the author an assortment of candy, including Boston Baked Beans.

Inviting Writing: Sweet Independence

My mission was to sample as much sugar as my stomach and allowance allowed

Chiles en nogada, the patriotically colored dish

Eating the Colors of the Flag for Mexican Independence Day

The patriotically colored chile, walnut sauce and pomegranate seed dish was invented by nuns in Puebla to honor a visiting general

A Manhattan, mixed using Maker's Mark bourbon

Bourbon Renewal: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of America’s Native Spirit

Despite prohibition, changing palates and charlatan whiskeys, this national drink has made a comeback

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