Sign You're Reading a Liberal Paper, Parts I and II

Times writers have deep thoughts on chocolate bars and Thanksgiving turkey.

"I myself became devoted to the 82 percent cacao extra-dark bar, with its unctuous mouth feel and fruity, acidic punch." - From magazine writer Arthur Lubow's Sunday op-ed on his favorite chocolate bar, "My Chocolate Meltdown."



"Lately more people have begun to express an interest in where the meat they eat comes from and how it was raised. Were the animals humanely treated? Did they have a good quality of life before the death that turned them into someone's dinner?....the writer Isaac Bashevis Singer in his story 'The Letter Writer"...called the slaughter of animals the 'eternal Treblinka.'" - From Bucknell professor Gary Steiner's Sunday op-ed, "Animal, Vegetable, Miserable."