You are probably as accustomed to walking past Tex-Mex, Thai-French and Pan-Asian restaurants as you are the neighborhood deli. But a “Cuban Reuben”? Don’t laugh, Jewish fusion may be coming to a Main Street near you. For a people defined by a diaspora for thousands of years, it was only a matter of time before...

I was on the Indonesian island of Flores, famous for its multicolored volcanic lakes, and I came across a bunch of backpackers talking to a restaurant owner about the possibility of him roasting them a dog for dinner. The backpackers were acting like it would be a real adventure. Here they were at the end...

“Krazy” Kevin Lipsitz once knew what victory tasted like: kosher pickles. Six years ago, the magazine subscription manager from Staten Island took first place in the Carnegie Deli Annual Pickle Eating Contest by masticating 3.5 pounds of the cured cucumbers in just five minutes. The glory of championship has eluded Krazy Kevin ever since, but...

*Be My Guest:* We found ourselves on an express train to Thrillsville when we learned that not only is *Christopher Guest* in post-production on a new film, _For Your Consideration_, but that the plot revolves around a group of actors who find that their work in an indie film, _Home for Purim_, is being buzzed...

With the book and now film _Fast Food Nation_, Walmart’s recent switch to organic produce, Slow Food restaurants popping up all over the country and what seems to be a growing hunger for “inconvenient truths,” a much more substantive wave of ethical eating is emerging. Although he might not be a household name, Australian philosopher...