Food

Britain’s love affair with curry goes back centuries, long before the boom in the late 1970s saw restaurants popping up in every town and city. Well into the 90s and 00s, going for a curry, mopped up with naan bread and washed down with your drink of choice, was a Friday night staple.

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In 1960, Princess Samdech Preah Reach Kanitha Norodom Rasmi Sobbhana published one of the first definitive texts on her country’s cuisine. L’Art de la cuisine cambodgienne, or The Culinary Art of Cambodia, was an extensively researched, beautifully illustrated tome years in the making.

She wasn’t defending herself from anything more malevolent than the curiosity of her friends and acquaintances. It was the 1960s, a time when many Americans had never encountered Indian food.

In her latest work to be translated into English, Annie Ernaux examines the malaise of the modern supermarket.

Seeing as we're nearly halfway through the year, we figured it’d be wise to gather the recipes that have garnered the most attention from our community thus far.

“The professor had his arms around Aliss’s waist, and imagined himself a prince from a fairy tale.” Already, the reader is peeking anxiously through her fingers. Abort! Abort! Literature is littered with the bodies of would-be lovers who gallop off the edge of reality.

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For many people, summer begins when they start wearing white. For others, it’s when the good tomatoes and sweet summer corn show up on farmers’ market stalls. And for the vast majority, it’s when they need to crank up the AC on that first sweltering 90-degree day of the year.

David Schwartz, the executive chef and co-owner of Mimi Chinese and Sunnys Chinese, is hitting his stride. “Things have never been better, with both places shining in their respective lights,” he says.