If you haven’t eaten in a school cafeteria in a while, you might find yourself both relieved and horrified by its evolution. The ubiquitous Jell-O and canned green beans of yore are gone, but pizza and chicken nuggets still rule. Children as young as kindergartners are allowed to choose burgers and flavored milk (twenty-two grams of sugar per cup, as ... Read more

A decade ago, Atlanta's Chinese food scene went through a tantalizing phase in which Buford Highway restaurant owners would constantly lure away each other's best dim sum cooks, who swapped loyalties like a culinary Game of Thrones. Out of those competitive switcheroos came impeccably fresh dumplings and other snacky tidbits wheeled through large dining rooms on jangling, tempting carts. By ... Read more

My apologies to our dining critic, Bill Addison, whose office is next to mine, but my longtime family recipe for chicken ratatouille involves opening lots of cans. That is, it did until recently, when I “earned” my Locavore Girl Scout badge. I couldn’t resist testing the new badges when I heard that the Girl Scouts had overhauled their entire program ... Read more

Steve Jobs may be gone, but a generation of acolytes is capitalizing on his design-savvy, intuitive gadgets—none of them more so than devotees of the iPhone. The world-in-your-palm invention has spawned the latest photographic fixation. Say hello to the Polaroid of the twenty-first century: iPhone photography or, in a word, iPhoneography. Photograph by Eric De Fino This exploding movement is ... Read more