The New Yorker - The Food Issue - Issue: 26; September 3 - 2007

Joan Acocella Calvin Trillin 48 SINGAPORE JOURNAL Three Chopsticks A search for the island's best streetfiod. Adam Gopnik 60 ANNALS OF AGRICULTURE New York Local Fruits of the five boroughs. Judith Thurman 72 OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS The Fast Lane Submitting to a regime of hunger. John McPhee 82 PERSONAL HISTORY My Life List A world ofweird eats. Jane Kramer 94 LETTER FROM EUROPE Spice Routes Claudia Roden's kitchen. Patrick Radclen Keefe 106 A REPORTER AT LARGE The Jefferson Bottles How much rare old wine can one man find? Lara Vapnyar 118 FICTION "Luda and Mikna" Aleksandar Hemon Gary Shteyngart Nell Freudenberger Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie David Sedans Anthony Lane Donald Antrim 12 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN 39 THE TALC OF THE TOWN David Remnich on the Israel lobby; James Surowiecki on airline woes. FAMILY DINNER 58 Rationed 70 Sixty-nine Cents 80 Grandmother's House 92 Real Food 98 Tasteless 104 Choke 112 A Man in the Kitchen THE CRITICS 1300KS 126 Dante's Paradiso. 133 Briefly Noted