How much does the contents of one’s plate reflect the content of one’s character? One new book argues: quite a lot.

Bee Wilson’s history of the fork—and other kitchen appurtenances—shows us that we are how we eat as well as what we eat. Culinary tools have reflected cultural dispositions in surprising ways, and continue to do so to this very day.

The history of milk—from sacred nourishment to taboo drink to our modern, dairy-saturated abundance.

A new life of Dr. Seuss, American icon.

Bee Wilson’s history of food frauds teaches a lesson: Caveat comesor.

The surprising history of America’s gastronomical icon.

We’ve been what we’ve eaten, evidently, for some ten millennia.