One thing I hate about living in California is having to wait until Wednesday to get The New Yorker. When I lived in New York, receiving both that and New York on Mondays made the beginning of the week a little bit brighter. My friend Deborah used to refer to it as “Magazine Monday.”

I admit it, I’m a total New Yorker junkie, and it hasn’t abated since I left. (Did anyone catch Roz Chast’s full-page cartoon recently of ‘The Museum of One’s Kitchen?’ It’s up on my fridge right now, and absolutely everyone who has seen it has chortled in recognition of their own ‘Cabinet of Too Many Teas…’) Well, given that it only came yesterday, I haven’t had time to read it yet. But I noticed that in the double issue which is entirely dedicated to food, readers of this blog will find several articles of interest; most notably, there is a Jane Kramer profile of Claudia Roden, author of one of my favorites, “The Book of Jewish Food,” and an exploration of eating from the five boroughs by Adam Gopnik. If you are not a subscriber, I’d go get a copy, it looks to make for some excellent holiday-weekend reading.