The Electric Typewriter
Great articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers.by Gregg Easterbrook
Norman Borlaug, the agronomist whose discoveries sparked the Green Revolution, has saved literally millions of lives, yet he is hardly a household name…
by Rick Bragg
There are two kinds of people in this world. First, there are people who wake up in the morning and run five miles, eat flax and swear they like it, they will tell you with a straight face that sometimes they just forget to eat. And then, there are the rest of us.
A Tetw reading list
Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace - DFW’s seminal essay about the Maine lobster festival.
The Egg Men by Burkhard Bilger - Spending time with Las Vegas’ top flight short order chefs, who work at a blistering pace in some of the world’s busiest kitchens.
If You Knew Sushi by Nick Tosches - A true connoisseur goes in search of the world’s best Sushi.
The Last Meal by Michael Paterniti - Locked in a dark cage for weeks, then drowned in armagnac and eaten whole. A reporter re-creates President Mitterand’s almost mythical last supper.
The Greatest Chef In The World by Michael Paterniti - The alchemical miracles and transcendental gastronomy of Ferran Adriá, who is often described as the world’s greatest chef.
By Meat Alone by Calvin Trillin - A pilgrimage to the best barbecue restaurant in Texas.
The Ketchup Conundrum by Malcolm Gladwell - Using the science of taste to explain why gourmet ketchup will never be a hit.
The Trouble with Fries by Malcolm Gladwell - What the evoulution of a fast-food favourite can teach us about the quest for healthy eating.
The 36-Hour Dinner Party by Michael Pollan - A bunch of serious foodies get together for a 2 day cookout.
The Million Dollar Nose by William Langewiesche - How an ordinary American from the backcountry of northern Maryland became the world’s most influential wine critic.
by Burkhard Bilger
Beer has lagged well behind wine and organic produce in the ongoing reinvention of American cuisine. Yet the change over the past twenty years has been startling.
by Jon Mooallem
Next to a banana or a grape, the apple is a daunting strongbox of a fruit, prohibitively so for anyone with braces or dentures; and even if you can break in, there’s no guarantee a given apple will eat as sweet as it looks.
by Elizabeth Kolbert
Men are now on average seventeen pounds heavier than they were in the late seventies, and for women that figure is even higher: nineteen pounds. Why?
by Rowan Jacobsen
The race for control of an ancient strain of cacao native to the Bolivian Amazon, wild cacao, unmolested by millennia of botanical tinkering. The tropical cacao tree, which has secret things to tell us about flavor and desire.
by Burkhard Bilger
Las Vegas is a city built by breakfast specials. Sex and gambling, too, of course, and divorce and vaudeville and the creative use of neon. But the energy for all that vice had to come from somewhere, and mostly it came from eggs.
