The chocolate chip cookie went national so completely that it flattened the map behind it — but drive around the country with an appetite and you'll find whole cookie traditions…
The casserole is the great American translation of care into food, one dish, one oven, one pan carried to a potluck, a new neighbor, or a grieving family, and like…
Few foods tell the story of American immigration and regional pride as directly as sausage, German butchers in the Midwest, Cajun smokehouses in Louisiana, Italian markets in the Northeast, and…
Every traveler knows the deflating feel of a resort strip in shoulder season, shuttered windows, seasonal staff gone home, a town that was never really a town, and every traveler…
Every year the same handful of states sit at the bottom of America's tourism tables, short on theme parks, cruise ports, and bucket-list icons, and every year the travelers who…
Cheese consumption is one of food's most lopsided world maps, dominated almost entirely by Europe, where per-person totals run to fifty and sixty pounds a year, while the United States,…