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Why Ken Meter Is on a Mission to Build Community Food Webs
Industrial farming drained wealth from rural America. In his new book, Meter says community food systems can repair the damage.
Discoveries about God and Race in the Table
Mockett is stunned to suddenly see “the level of emotion and thought that has gone into the architecture of a world that enabled the taking of the land.”
"Doing her own thing" meant pursuing interests that presaged today's slow food movement.
Japan's Decluttering Dynamo Has Shown Millions The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Profile of the owner of one of the hidden gems of the West Village, Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks.
The cookbook author with the golden palate and a gift for creating culinary trends
How entertaining can the author of "When Rules Change: An Economic and Political Analysis of Transition Relief and Retroactivity" be? I thought as I set out to interview NYU Law School tax professor Daniel Shaviro. Very, it turns out.
Three Lives & Company is the kind of bookshop every neighborhood should have. After writing a string of stories lamenting small retail closures in Greenwich Village, I wanted to clebrate a local favorite that has survived stiff competition.
Book review of Broughton Coburns Everest, Mountain Without Mercy
Book review of Dereck and Beverly Jouberts tribute to the lion prides of Botswana
Virtuoso flutist Eugenia Zukerman responds to a rare auto-immune lung disease by co-authoring, with her sister, a book on coping with the corticosteroid prednisone.
Inspired by her own experience caring for her elderly mother, an Alzheimers patient, writer Claire Berman writes a book for caregivers on how to care for themselves as well as their loved one.
Its not just the Oprah-effect: mind/body books are a publishing fad.
Book review and interview with director-writer Andrew Bergman, author of the novel Sleepless Nights.
Review of author-illustrator Nick Bantocks book The Golden Mean.
Review of non-fiction author Tracy Kidders Old Friends, and conversation with Kidder.