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Can Cultural Identity Be Defined by Food?

Cuisine is one of the few ways to characterize Singapore’s Peranakan culture, a hard-to-pin-down blend of ethnic and racial identities.

By Ligaya Mishan and Esther Choi

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These Cakes Have Thorns

A group of bakers are taking nonconformist cake decorating trends to new heights, creating otherworldly confections bristling with surreal protrusions.

By Mahira Rivers

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Julie Powell, Food Writer Known for ‘Julie & Julia,’ Dies at 49

She documented her attempt to cook every recipe in Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” in a popular blog that became a best-selling book and a hit movie.

By Kim Severson and Julia Moskin

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Read Your Way Through Istanbul

Istanbul is unfathomable: old and new, real and surreal, melancholic and absurd. Elif Shafak, one of its foremost novelists, reveals its secrets.

By Elif Shafak

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