food Archives - The American Scholar

Once and Future Food

By Stephanie Bastek | 09/29/2017 |

Imagining a new world of teas and tastes

The 11 Best Literary Feasts

By Our Editors | 06/27/2017 |

Our favorite fictional culinary scenes

Not by Taste Alone

By Tim Carman | 06/05/2017 |

The flavor of food is produced by all of the senses

Interstates

By Emily Bernard | 03/06/2017 |

How My Italian-American husband ate his way into the good graces of my African-American family

Neighborhood Haunts, Part 1

By Thomas Chatterton Williams | 11/30/2016 |

The Global Monoculture

By Thomas Chatterton Williams | 08/03/2016 |

Hamburgers in Paradise

By Stephanie Bastek | 12/08/2015 |

Read an excerpt from Louise O. Fresco’s new book about the story of food

Appetites

By Langdon Hammer | 12/07/2015 |

The poetry of Sandra M. Gilbert

Four Poems

By Sandra M. Gilbert | 12/07/2015 |

Delicious poems from the paintings of four masters

Seeds of Hope

By Gaia Vince | 10/21/2015 |

A new age will require new priorities