Gastronomica, the food and culture journal published by University of California Press that is celebrating their 10th anniversary this year, has a great gallery section on their site featuring a host of beautiful food photography and paintings. It's an area they specialize in — their raw, sometimes funny, sometimes aggressive cover art is half the [...]

For several years now, the wife and I have had a running joke about the Pollo Campero mascot, this extremely giddy chicken who, with wings wide apart in welcome, appears to beseech us to enter his restaurant and eat all his little friends. We amuse ourselves, we really do. But now, in the latest issue [...]

The latest issue of Gastronomica has a smart feature by Alexandra Greeley titled, simply, "Finding Pad Thai." I call the piece "smart" because it willingly accepts and promotes contradictions about Thai cuisine's most famous dish, pad Thai, which isn't really Thai at all.