Keeping an eye on things.
When I want to see live gospel stories, I go to the Amoco station at 14th and Euclid in my Washington D.C. neighborhood. One Saturday morning I stopped at the gas station for a cup of coffee. I was standing at the front door lowering my lips...

The Egoroff mystery.
{1} Private Andrew Egoroff was twenty-six years of age when he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) at Blackboy Hill in Western Australia on 5 July 1915. He was assigned to the 51st Battalion and then to the 4th Field Bakery during the reorganisation of March-April 1916. His...

Do you like bread?
Look at Different Kinds of Bread People eat corn bread. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] People eat challah (HAH-lah) bread. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] People eat sliced bread. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] People eat tortillas. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] People...

San Fran's mighty microbes: does America's most famous bread owe its flavor to a unique ecosystem?
ABOUT 34 YEARS AGO, FRANK SUGIHARA recalls, he and Leo Kline, a fellow microbiologist, set out to "solve the mystery of San Francisco sourdough." The two scientists were working with baker's yeast in a Bay Area lab run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, so perhaps it was inevitable...

How safe are self-serve unpackaged foods?
"It doesn't look sanitary, but if there was really a problem, the health department wouldn't allow it, right?" - anonymous customer to her friend Introduction At many supermarket bakeries, a consumer can have a clerk package a dozen donuts. With luck, there's a...

A Vegan Parisian Travelogue.
While the idea of a trip to Paris may seem like a gastronomic hardship for vegans, a little hands-on research can easily and deliciously disprove that assumption. My husband and I (cruelty-free eaters, both) recently spent an extremely well-fed week in the city of the croissant, known for its...

Pack a better picnic.
Peppery pita pockets and zippy cheese chunks add flair to outdoor meals. Planning a summer outing? Whether for a casual meal on the patio or a picnic in the park, the dishes you take outdoors should be healthful, inexpensive, and (above all) easy to make. With...

Was It Good for You?
Over the last ninety years of this magazine's existence, many thousands of people whose ideas were generally in tune with it have marched, rallied, sat-in, struck, petitioned, organized, and otherwise struggled for progressive social change. Other writers, perhaps in this very issue, can ponder the question of what was...

Concrete jungle.
Built in a clay basin, London embodies claustrophobia as a way of life, but once in a while something happens that lets the air in, that makes you see the city in a new way. It happened to me just before Christmas; flipping the FM dial on the car radio,...

BREAD ON THE RISE.
The hottest new commodity in town, bread is providing a feast of yeasts for Sarasota shoppers and diners. Bread is simplicity itself. Yet even the weariest sophisticate thrills to the warm, golden goodness of fresh-baked wheat crust smeared with sweet cream butter. Created with the most basic...