This Week’s Issue: Where Produce Meets Politics

Plus: How natural wine became a symbol of virtuous consumption, baby-food anxiety, and the legacy of a radical black newspaperman. View in browser | Update your preferences Letter from Brooklyn Could Food Co-ops Make a Comeback? In the age of one-click delivery, it can seem antediluvian to trudge home with brutally heavy sacks dangling from your shoulders. Still, there’s a comfort to bumping up against other humans around food. By Alexandra Schwartz More from the Food Issue Annals of Gastronomy Can Babies Learn to Love Vegetables? No diet has been more obsessively studied, more fiercely controlled, or more anxiously stage-managed than baby food. Yet we still get it wrong. By Burkhard Bilger Personal History My Life as a Child Chef For a bullied kid with weight issues, haute cuisine provided an escape. By Adam Shatz American Chronicles How Natural Wine Became a Symbol of Virtuous Consumption The mainstreaming of natural wines has brought niche winemakers capital and celebrity, as well as questions about their personalities and politics. By Rachel Monroe Comment The Sober Clarity of the Impeachment Witnesses William Taylor and George Kent were direct about their sense of dismay, and essential questions emerged from the stories they told. By David Remnick Books The Legacy of a Radical Black Newspaperman William Monroe Trotter rejected the view that racial equality could come in stages. By Casey Cep On Television Mixed Débuts on Apple TV+ in “The Morning Show” and “Dickinson” Jennifer Aniston and Steve Carell’s depiction of a #MeToo crisis is a pricey, glum misfire, while Emily Dickinson’s makeover is a sweet and original surprise. By Emily Nussbaum PAID POST “An instant classic of accessible and relevant religious history.”—Publishers Weekly The Lost Art of Scripture shines fresh light on the world's religions to help connect faiths and rediscover a creative engagement with holy texts. “Armstrong is the most articulate and generous-hearted exegete of religion writing at the present time.”—The New Statesman Humor from The New Yorker Shouts & Murmurs Build the Wall; Fill the Moat The U.S. Government agrees to engage Alligators & Snakes to provide services consisting of: scaring the bejesus out of any persons who come near them. By Sarah Paley Cartoons From The Issue Cartoons from the Issue Drawings and drollery from this week's magazine. Sign up for more newsletters from The New Yorker. Visit The New Yorker shop. Question about your subscription? Contact Customer Care. New Yorker digital subscribers get unlimited access to everything on newyorker.com. Log in to your account here. We’d love your feedback on this newsletter. Please send your thoughts and suggestions to TNYinbox@newyorker.com. This e-mail was sent to you by The New Yorker. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, NewYorker@newsletters.newyorker.com, to your address book. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2019. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.