
Just in case you haven’t heard quite enough about the way in which Noma’s René Redzepi forages his ingredients in the wilds of Denmark, The New Yorker this week drops a 7,000-word bomb dedicated to the topic. (The takeaway: Noma “is a showcase, a virtuoso reminder that only a small fraction of the planet’s bounty gets to anyone’s dinner table.”) Other highlights from the magazine’s food issue: Calvin Trillin cooks in Nova Scotia (exclusively); Paul Theroux enjoys heirloom tomatoes; and Adam Gopnik lays out Benjamin Franklin’s case for turning the turkey into the national bird. [NYer]