Calvin Trillin, The culinary approach to Spanish. http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/050905fa_fact
Judith Thurman, Night Kitchens - Japan's artisanal-tofu masters.
John Seabrook, Renaissance Pears - Growing a museum of fruit in Umbria. A profile of Isabella Dalla Ragione, who's field is archeologia arborea, and is tracking down fruit that once graced the Renaissance tables of the Medici. Keeping an orchard was a principle of scientific humanism - nature and technology. Each house had a pomari, an orchard of about 10 trees.
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