The Monday Interview Shanghai, Beyond the Soup Dumplings Betty Liu’s ode to the region looks past the modernist skyscrapers and restaurant mainstays that tourists gravitate toward. Story: Tatiana Bautista
The Monday Interview The Best Advice After Trying Every Fad Diet? Just Eat. Investigative journalist Barry Estabrook’s personal journey to understand the absurdity of the diet industrial complex. Story: Matt Rodbard
The Monday Interview The Cookbook, the Memoir, and the Grey Area Savannah restaurateurs John O. Morisano and Mashama Bailey set out to write a book. Instead, it started a conversation. Story: Anna Hezel
Futures Hetty McKinnon and the Quiet Power of Tomato and Egg The Australian author and publisher is carving out a space for herself in the fame-seeking, overly styled world of American food media. Story: Tatiana Bautista
Futures A Course Correction for American Chinese Food Junzi Kitchen’s Lucas Sin is preaching scale, empathy, and the power of Crab Rangoon. Story: Matt Rodbard
Futures When Disaster Strikes, Local Farms Step Up Activist and Soul Fire Farm founder Leah Penniman believes that our food system can learn a lot from the historic innovations of Black farmers. Story: Anna Hezel
Futures A Quest to Reinvent the Premade Sauce How Omsom founders Vanessa and Kim Pham are leading one of the most exciting food companies around. Story: Matt Rodbard
Futures The Future of the Food Magazine? Four Teenagers May Have the Answer. Published by a crew of innovative high schoolers, Pass the Spatula offers a fresh vision for food writing. Story: Tatiana Bautista
The Monday Interview Donabe Isn’t Just a Pot. It’s an Experience. How Naoko Takei Moore introduced a generation of American home cooks to the versatility of Japanese clay pot cooking. Story: Anna Hezel
The Monday Interview Chaat Finally Gets the Cookbook It Deserves Maneet Chauhan traveled India by train, on a mission to define a broad and adaptable family of snacks. Story: Matt Rodbard
The Monday Interview Setting the Record Straight on Mexico’s Favorite Recipes In a new cookbook, longtime blogger Mely Martínez does justice to the often overlooked seasonality of Mexican cooking. Story: Anna Hezel
The Monday Interview A New York City Cookbook Store Survives Kitchen Arts & Letters has hung on during the pandemic, and co-owner Matt Sartwell is ready for an exciting next chapter. Story: Matt Rodbard
The Monday Interview One Sambal Is Never Enough In a new cookbook, Lara Lee tells the story of Indonesian cooking, from its rainbow of spicy condiments to its pandan-scented sweets. Story: Anna Hezel
The Monday Interview Notes From a Noodle Empire The family story behind the hand-pulled noodles that started in Xi’an and stretched across New York City. Story: Tatiana Bautista
The Monday Interview Kelly Fields Has a Biscuit for That The Good Book of Southern Baking spills biscuit secrets and celebrates more than 100 Southern classics. Story: Kaitlin Bray
The Monday Interview Eric Ripert Is Cooking Through It Even amid a pandemic and possible closure, the Le Bernardin chef-owner isn’t giving up on New York. Story: Matt Rodbard
The Monday Interview Claire Saffitz Bakes for Breakfast, Dinner, and Dessert The internet’s favorite baker shows us how to improvise with confidence. Story: Matt Rodbard
The Monday Interview May We Reintroduce the King of Cocktails Dale DeGroff is back with an update of his drink-world-shifting The Craft of the Cocktail. Story: Chloe Frechette
The Monday Interview Petee’s Pie Commandments Breaking down the anatomy and aesthetics of a perfect pie with the owner of New York’s favorite late-night pie shop. Story: Dayna Evans
The Monday Interview There’s Never Been a Better Time to Be a Nondrinker In a new book, Good Drinks, Julia Bainbridge gives alcohol-free cocktails (but don’t call them “mocktails”) the close-up they deserve. Story: Matt Rodbard
The Monday Interview A Cookbook Critic Names the Season’s Best Paula Forbes runs Stained Page News, a must-read newsletter for cookbook fans. Story: Matt Rodbard