Steve Smith looked at the future of farming, and didn’t like what he saw. So he turned to the past and found a way of life worth preserving.

Mad cow disease has made headlines around the world, but how much do you need to worry?

Don’t tell Fred Kirschenmann that North Dakota is no place to grow crops.

On the occasion of Gourmet Live’s June 6, 2012, issue saluting Food Jobs, we are pleased to reprint this early article by the late, great dean of professional food criticism, Craig Claiborne. In The Man Who Changed the Way We Eat, a 2012 biography of Claiborne, author Thomas McNamee recounts how Gourmet’s Ann Seranne assigned him his first article for the magazine....

For me, there are only two cities in America that have special grace and flavor that rise above the flat level of living in this wonderful country. They arc San Francisco and New Orleans.

Hearing the cheering from the birthday party across the Atlantic, we decided to go. France holds celebration for beloved Paris, two thousand years old, Europe's oldest capital after Athens and Rome.

Mighty like a rose and it is rose, a rose-petal honey made by a recipe taken from the famous Martha Washington cookbook, the original copy now owned by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

It's a little patch of heaven—gourmets' heaven, we mean—Bellows' Gourmets' Bazaar, 69 East Fifty-second Street, New York. Here we discovered little delicacies from the Continent not generally found in the States....

A de luxe variation for the Lenten menu is frogs' legs from the frogland of America; these shipped by express the day after the night they are caught. The frogs are packed in kegs, the minimum order five pounds.

Is there any better dessert after a dinner than a red-meated grapefruit broiled with sweet sherry? Or dress the halves with a cherry or a dot of cranberry, or drizzle on honey.