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Food issue

From The New York Review of Magazines, a profile of Modern Drunkard. A new kind of drunkenness: Troy Patterson on the greatness of gin. What's in the bottle? An investigation into the startling fraud accusations that have upended the fine wine world. Everyone’s the wine expert: Wine critics and bloggers, professional and amateur, are mixed up in a social media web. Who invented the cocktail? That depends on how you define invented — and cocktail. Greg Beato on Starbucks' midlife crisis: The coffee giant can’t quite accept its own customers’ tastes. Are you what you eat? While people with an unhealthy lifestyle are no more risk-loving than other people, they are more impatient. The world's healthiest diets: Is the American diet really so bad that it's time to look to other countries for help? French haute cuisine superstar from four-star Le Bernardin Eric Ripert draws inspiration from fatty fast food? Mon dieu! A review of Steak: One Man's Search for the World's Tastiest Piece of Beef by Mark Schatzker (and more). Shoe-leather reporting: A history of well-done meat in America. A review of The Theology of Food: Eating and the Eucharist by Angel F. Mendez Montoya. Melanie Rehak on urban farmers. From TED, Ellen Gustafson on how obesity + hunger = 1 global food issue. Food writer Michael Pollan has already changed the way many of us eat — does that mean he should go to Washington as Secretary of Agriculture? An interview with Anna Lappe, author of Diet for a Hot Planet. Tuna’s End: On the high seas, the bluefin is being hunted into extinction — will we ever be able to think about seafood the same way? The bold "pay-what-you-want" restaurant experiment: A new dining trend allows customers to decide their own menu prices; an economist explains why it's a bad idea.