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AFTER half a century of assiduous eating in restaurants around the world, first avocationally and more recently professionally, I have become accustomed to certain questions: 'What's your favorite restaurant?' 'What […]

THE People's Action Party of Singapore won its 10th straight election in May, yielding only two seats in Parliament to the opposition. But it is now headed by Lee Hsien […]

HERE on the Eastern Shore, across the Chesapeake Bay from Baltimore, this is a season of astonishing abundance, full of crimson tomatoes bursting with juice, meltingly sweet corn and mouthwatering […]

MORE than once in the last two decades, Terry Theise confesses, he has felt like Sisyphus as he traveled the country, trying to sell the German wines, especially rieslings, that […]

'THIS reminds me of 'La Grande Jatte,' ' my wife, Betsey, said one sunny day, watching the blondes, male and female, soaking up the rays on the grassy, flower-flecked central […]

AS every gardener knows, flowers bloom in strange places. Le Reve is a spectacular case in point. Who in his right mind would expect to find a fairly formal French […]

THE tens of thousands of German immigrants who poured through the Port of Galveston and across south-central Texas in the mid-19th century brought with them formidable appetites not only for […]

THEY hang inconspicuously behind glass windows just inside the front door of Salumi, a pipsqueak of a place in the shabby Pioneer Square neighborhood of downtown Seattle. Hunks of ruddy-colored […]

LUNCHTIME on Friday on Bourbon Street. A raucous weekly ritual is under way beneath the antique rotary ceiling fans in the downstairs dining room at Galatoire's, the beloved watering hole […]

BREAUX BRIDGE and New Iberia and other citadels of Cajun culture lie a mere 150 miles west of here, but it has never been easy to find good Cajun cooking […]

A FOOTLOOSE young American named Jon Rowley sat in a down-at-the-heels room in Paris one day in the mid-1960's, reading 'A Moveable Feast,' Ernest Hemingway's posthumously published memoir of life […]

HAVING buckled on his broadsword in the past to fight for organic farming and against modern architecture, the Prince of Wales recently launched a crusade to reawaken Britain's taste for […]

EATING well, very well, is nothing new in the marshy, island-rimmed Lowcountry of South Carolina. The complex and amply documented culinary traditions of this elegant peninsular city and its hinterland […]

WESTERN AUSTRALIA sits way out there on the edge of things. It is a gigantic place, nearly four times the size of Texas, and mostly empty, with a smaller population […]

YOU can size up the new Napa and the old in a single sidelong glance down the 800 block of Main Street, where a jampacked tapas spot and a welcoming […]

CLEMENTINE PADDLEFORD was the Nellie Bly of culinary journalism, a go-anywhere, taste-anything, ask-everything kind of reporter who traveled more than 50,000 miles a year in search of stories in a […]

IT had been a long day. My 71-year-old mother had flown overnight from the United States to visit her expatriate daughter and her three grandchildren, arriving as the sun was […]

THE native Taino Indians, the Spanish who conquered the island in the 16th century, the Africans brought here as slaves to work in the cane fields, the Americans who seized […]

Three months after the deadly surprises of Sept. 11, in a society where finger-pointing is a way of life, the nation's intelligence agencies have largely escaped condemnation for not having […]

CALL it the Foodies' Paradox: With every passing year, we care more and more about food, and we have less and less time to cook. Donna Hay has figured this […]

It can't be easy being Tom Ridge. He has succeeded at everything he has done, building a too-good-to-be-true resume. He grew up in the timeworn little city of Erie, Pa., […]

JUST as they are in New York, times are tough for restaurateurs in Sydney -- 'tougher than tough,' as one of the local superchefs said. Overexpansion for the Olympic Games […]

The collapse of Taliban military forces in northern Afghanistan was so sudden and so unexpected that government officials and commentators on strategy, here and elsewhere, are finding it hard to […]

CAN this be the place? Dubiously, you drive up a muddy, unmarked road potted with water-filled holes, park next to a worn army-surplus generator, poke your head into a metal […]

Until Sept. 11, Washington had the unmistakable feel of a backwater. To borrow a phrase from another era, the essential business of the United States seemed to be business. Wall […]

What a difference a week makes. Last week, Washington belonged to the naysayers and the what-iffers. Spokesmen at the White House were badgered with questions about the campaign against terrorism. […]

NEXT Thursday, as they do every year, American families will sit down to a misapprehension. They will celebrate Thanksgiving in the belief that they are feasting on much the same […]

YOU could almost see Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld squirm. Someone had asked him whether the United States would consider halting the bombing of Afghanistan during the Ramadan holiday out […]

Like an unwelcome specter from an unhappy past, the ominous word 'quagmire' has begun to haunt conversations among government officials and students of foreign policy, both here and abroad. Could […]

WE had arrived in this evocative old port city at the head of the Adriatic only a few minutes earlier, and we hadn't even opened our suitcases when the telephone […]

Anthrax is not contagious, but fear is. There was ample evidence of that today, the most unsettling day this taut city has seen since Sept. 11. Whoever has made a […]

Toward the end of his news conference last week, President Bush turned to the hard topics of war and sacrifice. Having commented earlier, as he has done so often since […]

With anxiety about bioterrorism gripping large sections of the United States, President Bush said today, 'We are taking strong precautions, we are vigilant, we are determined, the country is alert, […]

THIRTY years ago, in 'The Food of Italy,' Waverley Root advised travelers to hunt for obscure restaurants if they wanted to experience the true glories of the Italian table. Otherwise, […]

When the word came that the waiting had ended, first from Kabul, then from officials at the Pentagon and finally from President Bush, it came on a pristine fall Sunday, […]

Carefully limited military action against Afghanistan may well begin some time this month, ranking officials here and in London say, but much about it remains uncertain. Defense Secretary Donald H. […]

WORLD War III? Not really. World War I was essentially a struggle for Western Europe, fought primarily by massed infantry formations, in France and northern Italy and at Gallipoli on […]

Two weeks after the devastating attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the question of the hour here is this: Does the Bush administration have a well-defined plan […]

Siding with those of his advisers who favor the broadest possible campaign against terrorism, President Bush told Congress, the nation and the world last night that the forthcoming American effort […]

HARD to find outside the districts where it is produced, with a name that is often mispronounced, marc is a heady, earthy-tasting French relative of moonshine. It makes some people […]

MARC DE BOURGOGNE from Joseph Cartron is probably the most widely distributed label in the United States. Produced by a specialist distiller in Nuits-St.-Georges in Burgundy, it is a well-made […]

With the eyes of a nervous nation fixed upon him, George W. Bush began coming of age as president this weekend. In the capital and in New York City, in […]