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Consider the Lobster

For 56 years, the Maine Lobster Festival has been drawing crowds with the promise of sun, fun, and fine food. One visitor would argue that the celebration involves a whole lot more.
August 2004
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Straight From the Heart

Susur Lee didn't set out to become Canada's hottest chef.
October 2001
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The God of Small Feasts

In this Indian family, destiny begins in the kitchen.
January 2000
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An Evening at the Waldorf

This delightful, timeless account of young love and an old hotel inspired more responses from our readers than anything else ever printed in the magazine.
December 1978
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Consider the End

Consider the end! That is what my father did, gastronomically, for his offspring. He wanted us to taste life in the round.
October 1958
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An Alphabet for Gourmets, W-Z

W is for wanton … and the great difference between the way a man eats and has his lady love eat.
October 1949
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An Alphabet for Gourmets, S-V

S is for sad … and for the mysterious appetite that often surges in us when our hearts seem breaking and our lives too bleakly empty.
September 1949
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An Alphabet for Gourmets, P-R

P is for peas … naturally! … and for a few reasons why the best peas I ever ate in my life were, in truth, the best peas I ever ate in my life.
August 1949
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An Alphabet for Gourmets, M-O

M is for monastic … and for what happens when men become monks—at table, I hasten to add!
July 1949
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An Alphabet for Gourmets, K-L

K is for kosher … and for a few reasons why the dietary laws have been called “one of the best economic regimes ever made public.”
April 1949
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