They're what's for dinner. John Cook investigates. Alleen Barber finds out. This reference is lost on those who think we may come from, say, a farm implement trade weekly. So we're proud that this special issue makes a connection between the two meanings of the word.
Food is a kind of digestible data, at once intimate and universal.
We all eat, but the way we experience eating is subjective, personal, exceptional. While the recent past has seen an explosion of writers who write mainly about food, the Feed Food Issue collects together a series of articles about food by writers who, for the most part, don't approach the subject as experts but merely as consumers. Food writer and memoirist Betty Fussell provides our one voice of true professionalism in this issue in an interview with FEED's Elaine Blair. A second helping appears in week two. We know someone who claims that the Twinkies outside the Tri-State area taste different.