Eating And Writing 
The Future of Food Journalism
At a recent panel entitled The Future of Food Journalism, the future proved, once again, to be unknowable. Will it, as panelist Francis Lam over at Salon.com is hoping, look li... ...read more
Fried Stone: Frying Rice with Ari LeVaux
Perhaps you’ve heard the story of stone soup. Some hungry travelers arrive at a village during a famine, set up a kettle in the town square, put a rock in it, and start cooking.... ...read more
The Year in Food
Most of the highlights in the food realm over the last decade can be framed in the context of two competing paradigms that have clashed. In one corner we have big food: factory ... ...read more
TFT Exclusive: Why Italians Love to Talk About Food
For a long time, the world considered the cuisine of Naples and Campania the maximum, absolute expression of the Italian character (italianit ...read more
Pie Principles
I come from pie people: People with principles. People who tended to be very thin or very fat (part of the family owned a candy store). People who believed that pie crust couldn... ...read more
Is There Such a Thing as a Free Breakfast?
On the subway the other morning, I finish my book and am abruptly aware of a woman in powder blue. Hooded sweater, velour pants, Crocs, all the same pale blue. She pulls a pink ... ...read more
Jewish Pleasure: Is Honey Cake Better Bitter?
It’s Rosh Hashanah. Happy New Year. Gastronomically speaking, I’m a self-hating Jew. If my dear departed Grandma Betty ever gave your Grandma the recipe her upstairs... ...read more
On a Wing and a Prayer: Bon Appetit Says We Love Chicken
And chicken we had—in pot pie, in stews, in soup, and mixed with other meats in main courses… They were depression food and if, throughout my career, I have printed more ... ...read moreThe Bungled Adventures of Iron Stomach (and his Sidekick the Traveling Foodie)
It is a poor choice to begin a food article with the word diarrhea in the opening paragraph, but then again many of my cuisine choices in foreign lands are irrational (though de... ...read more
Hot Time, Dinner in the City: Compulsive Cookbookery
A cookbook I return to whenever the weather gets hot is Mangoes and Curry Leaves: Culinary Travels through the Great Subcontinent by Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid. I ferry ho... ...read moreFollow Us
-
Follow us on twitter@thefastertimes
Most Popular
-
1
Brooklyn Man Now Living Entirely Off Own Beard Garden
-
2
“Cra Cra” Now Official Diagnosis in New DSM (DSM-5)
-
3
OfficeMax Marketing Director Struggling to Make Staplers ‘Sexy’ and ‘Conversational’
-
4
Area Man Tailors Life To Be More Relevant To His Hulu Advertisements
-
5
Fan Banging Furiously on Glass Could Be the Difference in Hockey Playoffs
-
6
First Openly Straight Figure Skater Comes Forward
-
7
Survey: 88% of Eagles Fans Too Drunk To Spell Nnamdi Asomugha Last Season
-
8
Attorney Actually Starting to Believe Own Bullshit
-
9
Homeless Guy Woos Silicon Valley VCs with Low-Tech Crowdfunding Strartup
-
10
Local Mom Won’t Stop Being First Person to Like Every Goddamn Thing Son Posts to Facebook