FROM THE MAGAZINE

May 2020

‘We are told that “we’re in this together” by people who can afford to wait out the epidemic in the way the aristocrats of old retreated to their estates when the plague arrived in the city. It is more accurate to say that we are, as this edition’s cover puts it, “together, alone”.’

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Civilized caffeination

A frothy tour of Vienna’s coffeehouses

By Ysenda Maxtone Graham

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Upper crust: a sweeter approach to sourdough

According to French tradition, it is wrong to throw away old bread because it is sacred

By Jane Stannus

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Cooking for dad: real food is nothing fancy

Alison Roman’s tastes are like my father’s: particular, strident and requiring a capacious definition of the word ‘unfussy’

By Mary Kate Skehan

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Wine is for lovers: mein Gott and yours

I have some good advice about some things you might want to drink after you have gathered with one or two appropriate friends

By Roger Kimball

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