Best of 2016: Food Writing

Each week, Roads & Kingdoms and Slate publish a new dispatch from around the globe. For more foreign correspondence mixed with food, war, travel, and...

It was 1982. We were young. There was only one urinal.

The irresistible allure of Jessica Koslow’s Sqirl, the restaurant at the center of New York’s undying, sun-soaked fantasy of Los Angeles

Big crowds, legit lox, a civil suit, and millions in debt

Sure, you might know him as Kim Kardashian's best friend. But the social media star is quickly conquering new territory—the fertile, foodie world of Snapchat—as the benevolent @FoodGod.

Ian Parker joins Wells at David Chang’s Momofuku Nishi and recalls his legendary reviews of Per Se, Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar, and Señor Frog.

Guy Fieri created the TV version of comfort food: It's not great for you, it's sometimes gross, but it's always comforting.

Every era gets the domestic goddesses it deserves, and in 2016, we have Gwyneth Paltrow and Chrissy Teigen

Kathryn Schulz on a Mexican-food entrepreneur from South Asia, and a recent upswing of Islamophobia.

How paid parental leave could solve the culinary gender gap

A new look at one of the nation’s landmark restaurants.