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November 24, 2008
Personal History
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One Fish, Two Fish [ABSTRACT]
- PERSONAL HISTORY about the writer’s search for the ideal brodetto. For more than half a century, the writer has had an obsession with a fish soup. It started with a brief mention over a family meal in a Bronx apartment. The man she was dating invited her to his parents…
November 24, 2008
Profiles
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The Hungry Travellers [ABSTRACT]
- PROFILE of food writers Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid. Describes how Alford and Duguid met in Lhasa, Tibet in the fall of 1985. Duguid was a lawyer of thirty-five with a boyfriend at home in Toronto. Alford was thirty-one, a ponytailed seeker of truth from Wyoming, with a…
November 24, 2008
Letter from China
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Garden of Contentment
- LETTER FROM CHINA about restaurateur Dai Jianjun and the Dragon Well Manor restaurant. One day in September, the writer joined the Chinese restaurateur Dai Jianjun on a foraging expedition on a remote mountainside in Zhejiang Province. “You just can’t trust the ingredients you buy in the markets,” Dai said. Mentions…
September 01, 2008
Letter from Beijing
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Fun and Games
- LETTER FROM BEIJING about the second week of the Summer Olympics. Writer describes Usain Bolt’s record-setting performance in the hundred-meter sprint. From the first heat up to the final, he seemed to be participating less in an Olympic sport than in a gargantuan party. The obvious reaction to…
August 25, 2008
Letter from Beijing
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The Only Games in Town
- LETTER FROM BEIJING about week one at the Summer Olympics. The date was August 10th, the place was Beijing, and Michael Phelps had just spent a relaxing Sunday morning in the pool, slicing more than a second off his own world record. The event was the men’s four-hundred-metre…
July 21, 2008
On and Off the Avenue
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Buy Shanghai!
- ON AND OFF THE AVENUE about shopping in Shanghai. Shortly before the writer flies to Shanghai, she e-mails a friend who lives there and asks if she wants anything from the United States. “No need,” the friend e-mails back, “chances are, any item you would bring from there…
April 21, 2008
The Natural World
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Tigerland
- THE NATURAL WORLD about a journey through the mangrove forests of the Sundarbans Tiger Reserve. Describes the story of a tiger attack experienced by Phani Gayen, of the Saznekhali Wildlife Sanctuary, in the mangrove forest on the northern border of India’s Sundarbans Tiger Reserve. At the mouth of the Ganges…
April 21, 2008
Personal History
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A Dip in the Cold
- PERSONAL HISTORY about the writer’s attempts to swim parts of the Northwest Passage. Greenland, the world’s largest island, lies mostly within the Arctic Circle, and more than three-quarters of it is ice-capped. The first successful transit of the Northwest Passage was not completed until 1906, under the leadership…
April 21, 2008
Letter from the Yangtze Delta
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The Way of the Puffin [ABSTRACT]
- LETTER FROM THE YANGTZE DELTA about bird watching while visiting factories in eastern China. Writer describes a plush puffin golf club head cover he was given by his brother. Inspecting the puffin, the writer discovers that it was made in China and decides to visit the part of the world…
April 16, 2007
A Reporter at Large
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The Interpreter
- A REPORTER AT LARGE about Dan Everett’s research on the language of the Piraha tribe in the Amazon. One morning last July, in the rainforest of northwestern Brazil, the writer and Dan Everett, an American linguistics professor at Illinois State University, stepped onto a beach bordering the Maici River, where…
