The best American food and travel writing 2025

Brandied Fruit / Elisabeth Meyer Gonzalez

The Miracle Cabbage / Melissa Broder

The Taste of Memory / Sheri Castle

What I Took or Did Not Take to the Potluck / John Birdsall

From Scratch / Lee Anderson

On Any Given Sunday (Grandpa's Hands) / Chala June

The People Who Feed America Are Going Hungry / Ayurella Horn-Muller

They Ate at My Table, Then Ignored My People / Reem Kassis

The Land Back Movement Is Also About Foodways / Kate Nelson

Black Earth / Christina Cooke

Nice View. Shame About All the Tourists. / Henry Wismayer

A Taste of Freedom / Kayla Stewart

The City That Rice Built / Jeff Gordinier & George McCalman

Why the Black American Origins of Mac and Cheese Are So Hotly Debated / Nneka M. Okona

Fifty Years Ago, Her Book Took on the Wine Patriarchy. It Still Holds Up. / Kristen Hartke

They Used to Be Places Just for Women. Now They're UNESCO World Heritage Sites / Melissa Febos

Breaking the Pattern / Justin Lo

I Loved How Much Ugly Baby Hated Me / Giri Nathan

How to Eat a Rattlesnake / John Paul Brammer

Meet the Foragers Changing the Way Philly Eats / Kae Lani Palmisano

Meet the San Francisco Influencer Getting Gen Z Girls Excited About Crab Fishing / Luke Tsai

Good Vibrations / Ligaya Mishan

Aspartame, I Love You / Hart Fargo

One Mixed Dozen / Lydia C. Buchanan

An Acquired Taste / AC Lamberty

Aphrodisiac / Puloma Ghosh

The Food That Makes You Gay / Jaya Saxena.