FAMILY DINNER
"Choke", by Anthony Lane
"A Man in the Kitchen", by Donald Antrim
"Tasteless", by David Sedaris
LETTER FROM EUROPE
"Spice Routes", by Jane Kramer: Claudia Roden's culinary diaspora.
OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS
"The Fast Lane", by Judith Thurman: You are what you don't eat.
SINGAPORE JOURNAL
"Three Chopsticks", by Calvin Trillin: Is street food the best cuisine?
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Her VOice RIses aND FAlls witH ALMOst EVery WOrd. like a bad poet or an actor trying to sound intelligent on Selected Shorts.
SO hard to hear the story for the story! Her inflection totally washes over the prose - more interested in how she sounds than telling the story. Unfortunate!