FROM THE MAGAZINE

September 2020

‘From the moment Trump took the oath of office, his presidency has not been about “Trumpism”. It has been about Donald Trump. Every day of the Trump presidency is like a new episode of a reality TV show.’

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A leaf from Verdi’s book

Can radicchio take root in the Pacific Northwest?

By Jane Stannus

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Pita Shack flashback

The bloody horrors that have waylaid Iraq since the 2003 invasion obliterate thoughts of its glorious past

By James Jeffrey

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Jason Peters writes to entertain his friends and exasperate his enemies

No one who eats food or laughs at jokes should be without his new book

By Bill Kauffman

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Eye on the pies: food in the age of ‘cultural appropriation’

Am I, a not-Chinese person, allowed to make sesame buns?

By Nancy Rommelmann

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Count your chickens

Life on a funny farm

By Mary Kate Skehan

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Digging for clams on the Jersey Shore

While some swear that only while barefoot can you properly detect clams, connoisseurs know that’s bosh

By Benjamin Riley

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