The Best American Food Writing 2018

They eat rice every day and worship their ancestors.
My people are rice eaters. Marry into my family a potato or pasta eater and we will convert you. To brown rice, red rice, basmati and jasmine, Forbidden rice, Arborio, and yes, even commercial brands of white rice like Uncle Ben’s

Each and every human anxiety can be co-opted by food. Are you getting enough? Are you eating too much? Is it being raised ethically? Can it make you live longer, grow more beautiful hair, and have lower taxes? We are doomed to wonder about food as long as we shall live, and this is part of what makes us human

Food is the ultimate modern topic, now that we know enough about it to discuss it and analyze it and manipulate it to death

Tell me what you eat and I’ll tell you what you are.”

The defining pleasure of the sixties was music. To some extent, the defining pleasure of the seventies was film. The defining pursuit of our time now is food.”

who has access to what and why

Harold McGee and J. Kenji López-Alt, the chemistry and history of food science are just as essential to our recipe development as cultural histories

the cult of personality in the kitchen