This week, to accompany the Food Issue of The New Yorker, here is a selection of New Yorker food writing from the past. In this Talk of the Town piece from 1945, Lillian Ross writes about what was at the time a novelty: frozen dinners.

also from the same issue: a brief history of eating.
- dave 8-12-2002 9:12 pm [add a comment]

• sept vanity fair has a map of LES w/ alias and fresh food noted as well as wiley's new to be joint by name. clinton just makes the map as an apendage (like hawaii or alaska)
  - bill 8-12-2002 11:08 pm [add a comment]

since when do you read vanity fair
- Skinny 8-12-2002 11:57 pm [add a comment]

• Oh, you know Bill: Thackeray; Bunyan; Byron, all those guys…
  - alex 8-13-2002 1:20 am [add a comment]