January 6, 2010

In Seattle, teriyaki is omnipresent, the closest this city comes to a Chicago dog.

A rigorous but also literate and wickedly funny explanation of the global financial crisis from the novelist John Lanchester.

Cerebral soul? Action hero? Who is Sherlock Holmes? Arthur Conan Doyle’s creation has had probably the most successful and elaborate afterlife of any fictional character.

A group in Rhode Island has created a fertility bank for heritage livestock, freezing embryos in preparation for an outbreak of disease — or the next food trend.

During the holidays, the restaurant Veselka serves a traditional Ukrainian 12-dish dinner that is meatless and dairy-free.