Critics At Large

Liz Baer in the kitchen. Liz Baer earns her paycheck teaching Latin, but she’s been moonlighting for a little more than a year test...

Chef Yotam Ottolenghi is the author of Simple . (Photo: Chris Floyd) If you're familiar with Yotam Ottolenghi's cookbooks and ...

A stand showing some of the honey entries at this year's Spencer Fair. (Photo: Ellen Perry) Every year at the Spencer Fair, the W...

A loaf of sourdough bread. (Photo: Liliana Fuchs) In New England, everybody knows King Arthur Flour. It’s on the shelves in most ...

Rosalind Bentley's Great Aunt Lucy and one of her cookbooks, featured in Gravy 's "Hostesses of the Movement". (Photo:...

Cherries! (Photo: Dean Morley) I like to listen to food podcasts while I’m cooking and also – maybe this is ironic – while I’m exerc...

The cork forests of the western Mediterranean region are among the most biodiverse ecosystems on the planet. They are home to over 1...

Photo by Nicki Dugan Pogu e. Not many foods deserve a biography. Those that do generally either date back to prehistory (bread, wine,...

Sunset over Dragon Island, Crete, Greece. Just beyond the coast of Crete, near the port city of Heraklion (Iraklion), is a long stretc...

Checking the color of the coffee beans during the roasting process. We are pleased to welcome a new critic, Ellen Perry, to our group....