Yet at affordable restaurants, dishes are more often compared to drugs. Perhaps because they feel so much societal pressure to shun high-fat food, women are more apt than men to use drug imagery in ...

Whether writing fiction or essays, ``meal'' scenes often appear as symbols of everyday life. Essayist and food writer Alicia Kennedy explores the depth and complexity of depictions of food and eating.

I remember the horror at stumbling across the sign “mayak gimbap” in a market in Seoul years ago. Mayak refers to drugs, while gimbap is the popular Korean seaweed rice roll.