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Dinner party

Games to Play Around the Dinner Table

Suggestions for every type of dinner party

Five Ways to Eat Cucumbers

What are the best and worst picnic foods?

The Best and Worst Picnic Foods

There’s almost no wrong time to have a picnic, but there are several food items that never feel quite right

This 1956 photograph was taken during the short time that two Nite Owls sat cheek-by-jowl in Fall River, MA. Soon the old lunch wagon was carted away and demolished, replaced by the gleaming diner.

A Life Devoted to the American Diner

With a career spent chronicling the best of American diners, curator Richard Gutman knows what makes a great greasy spoon

In each place that Steven Raichlen visits in his quest for great barbecue, he finds not only history and great food, but a look at who we are.

A Worldwide Quest for Barbecue

Steven Raichlen made a career teaching Americans all about barbecue, then an international tour taught him new ways to grill

Otto Wolf readies meats for the smoker at the Glasbrenner Butchery, a shop near Stuttgart owned by one of a dwindling number of master butchers in Germany.

For German Butchers, a Wurst Case Scenario

As Germans turn to American-style supermarkets, the local butcher—a fixture in their sausage-happy culture—is packing it in

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Meat and Potatoes

Of carnivores and herbivores

The Smithsonian Castle

Happy First Birthday to Us

Figs

Five Ways to Eat Fresh Figs

Fresh figs are wonderful! They’re in season in many places right now, so enjoy them while you can

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Cracking into Crabs

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