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07.13.07
travel + culture

The Court Will Resume After Lunch

I figured that every city must have its “I only eat there when I’m on jury duty” neighborhood, maybe as ethnic as New Yorks Chinatown. And I wondered what they might be.
07.12.07
food + cooking

The Beautician’s Pig

Once you have developed a taste for real meat from proper butchers, as opposed to the pallid, sanitized stuff, there is no looking back.
06.08.07
food + cooking

Anecdote of the Can

I used to spend my spring months teaching at Nerd Camp, where 52 people read and write while living on a lake in the woods of Maine.
06.05.07
recipes

Miso-Glazed Sea Bass with Asparagus

Delicate, sophisticated flavors come together almost effortlessly with the help of miso, a Japanese staple.
June 2007
travel + culture

Happy Meals

Few of us have ever had a memorable airplane meal. But once upon a time, it was possible to have good food, even in coach.
05.09.07
recipes

Bibimbop (Korean Vegetable Rice Bowl)

Fresh, stir-fried vegetables are liberally seasoned with garlic and sesame oil and topped off with a rich fried egg.
May 2007
recipes

Singapore “Carrot Cake”

Once a favorite breakfast of the Chinese, this dish might more accurately be called a daikon scramble.
May 2007
food + cooking

Pounding to Perfection

As I sit on a plastic chair beneath the wooden stilts of a house in Tmatboey, a woman grinds a kroeung—a quintessential Khmer spice mixture.
04.30.07
magazine

True West

The vast, sparsely populated desert region that is Xinjiang is a China unlike any you’ve ever seen.
April 2007
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