Food and Travel

It's time to stand up for homemade potato salad It's time to stand up for homemade potato salad

Come on, people, it's not that hard to make. Do you really think we can't tell the difference?
  • Why we can't eat just one

    We do it for the buzz. Like drug addicts. How do we stop the constant craving?
  • Summer reading: True confessions

    Recommended memoirs for your beach book list, from an Italian idyll to a childhood spent trying to be black.
  • Don't flush that fertilizer!

    Normal ecosystems use and reuse critical nutrients like phosphorus. But humans aren't normal
  • Ask the pilot

    Do pilots have a "romper room"? Do they fly the same routes over and over? Those questions and more
  • It's cheap -- but can you swallow it?

    In this slumped economy, fast food restaurants are beckoning with their impossibly thrifty value menus. I tried them so you don't have to.
  • Did dinner with Obama pay off for the White House?

    Krugman and Stiglitz concede that maybe, possibly, in a best-case scenario, the administration's "muddling-through" plan for the banks could work. But they're not jumping for joy.
  • Ask the pilot

    From swine flu to malaria, how jetliners can spread disease. Plus: Is the air on planes really as dirty as we think?
  • Obama's dinner with Stiglitz and Krugman

    We know they ate roast beef and discussed the banking system. The rest is a mystery.
  • Big Think: Lidia Bastianich on what makes a great chef

    "Tutti a tavola a mangiare!" The Italian-American chef on the cultural history of food and how sharing pasta could lead to a more peaceful world.
  • Fry the bacon, slay the competition

    Do male gastro-sexuals have a macho take on the kitchen?
  • Save our national sense of humor!

    Since when is farting on a sandwich a felony? People have been grossing each other out for centuries and it's no time to stop now.
  • Don't have a cow!

    Famous animal lover Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, the author of "The Face on Your Plate," talks about why you should consider giving up the burgers -- and the fromage.
  • Backpacking the meltdown: In bad taste?

    I inherited some money to travel but it doesn't feel right to wander when millions are losing their jobs.
  • It was a detonation wedding: Our friendship exploded

    The groom said my husband is dead to him. The bride refused my package.
  • I would like to take a vacation?

    If I take a vacation, where should I go? How does one take a vacation? What is a vacation?
  • Relax, it's just foie gras

    Animal activists have denounced the delicacy as torture. But as a new book explains, the truth is not as simple -- or as sensational -- as they'd like you to believe.
  • America's food banks need a bailout

    The struggle to feed America's nouveau needy.
  • Is a marriage license just a piece of paper?

    As a Universal Life Church minister, I could help my friend get a foreign work visa. Should I sign?
  • Finale wrap-up: "Top Chef"

    Cheftastrophe! The fifth season boils down to overcooked soufflés, under-salted fish and lots of big, salty tears.
  • Organic foodies love Obama again

    They didn't like Tom Vilsack for secretary of agriculture, but their joy at the No. 2 pick for USDA, Kathleen Merrigan, knows no bounds.
  • The cheese-and-pepperoni stimulus

    The pizza restaurant is the last bastion of American small business. Eat a slice today to jump-start our economy. It's your civic duty!
  • I Like to Watch

    Will Obama give America an extreme makeover? Will the Europeans rule "Top Chef"? Plus: Gordon Ramsay breaks the swearing sound barrier!
  • How to live what Michael Pollan preaches

    Mark Bittman's revolutionary "Food Matters" is both a cookbook and a manifesto that shows us how to eat better -- and save the planet.
  • My restaurant romance could get us both fired

    I secretly fell for a higher-up at work, and not even my best friend knows.
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