Interviews

NIK SHARMA

“A lot of people say that food brings people together. I don't believe that.”

#antidotes to exoticism

#Indian cuisine

#representation pressure

JOHN BIRDSALL

“I think truly tasting is a difficult thing to do.”

#critic as literary character

#lessons from Jonathan Gold

#James Beard & the Great Gay Diaspora

ESTHER MOBLEY

“I use wine as a vehicle to look at what California is.”

#masculine and feminine wines

#hedonistic fruit bombs

#2004 Cabernets as social history

SOLEIL HO

“I think about the ways I’m assuming a white reader and then try to stop myself.”

#criticizing like a plumber

#the road out of the dark

#bad-faith arguments