The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float....are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness.

There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only nine months later in carnage the scale of which had never before been seen on earth.

A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find.

In every age, people are certain that only the things they have deemed valuable have true value. The search for love and the search for wealth are always the two best stories. But while a love story is timeless, the story of a quest for wealth, given enough time, will always seem like the vain pursuit of a mirage.

The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float....are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness.

Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture.

Judging foods without regard to price is a rich mans game, and yet poor people can be gourmets able to discern a good potato from a bad one.