The best American food writing 2021

A New Orleans chef navigates disaster / Helen Rosner --

How a cheese goes extinct / Ruby Tandoh --

Good bread / Bill Buford --

How to feed crowds in a protest or pandemic? The Sikhs know / Priya Krishna --

The fed-up chef / Sheila Marikar --

Once the disease of gluttonous aristocrats, gout is now tormenting the masses / Ligaya Mishan --

This is the dumbest foodie battle of our time / Rebecca Onion --

SF Restaurant's $200-per-person dome is America's problems in a plastic nutshell / Soleil Ho --

All Brandon Jew wants is for Chinese restaurants to know their worth / MacKenzie Chung Fegan --

Close to the bone / Amy Irvine --

Cecilia Chiang / Jade Chang --

Incubated futures / Britt H. Young --

Soli/dairy/ty / Liza Monroy --

Get fat, don't die / Jonathan Kauffman --

What it's like to self-quarantine with a Michelin-starred chef / Kaitlin Menza --

Making reservations / Foster Kamer --

The Nazi origins of your favorite natural wine / Leah Rosenzweig --

What a 1944 starvation experiment reveals about 2020 food insecurity / Kelsey Miller --

Stewed awakening / Navneet Alang --

The queer legacy of Elka Gilmore / Mayukh Sen --

Who will save the food timeline? / Dayna Evans --

You'll probably never get into this restaurant / Beth Landman --

The chef restoring Appalachia's world-class food culture / Eric J. Wallace --

Waterworld / Katherine LaGrave.