Must-reads of 2012: food

As 2012 draws to a close, CJR writers brainstormed the year’s best reads in their beats.

The history of chicken — Smithsonian Magazine

Pete Wells’s review of Guy Fieri’s new restaurant — The New York Times

Here Are Our Five Favorite Food-Cliché Sentences — nymag.com

Paul Greenberg’s op-ed about how restoring oysters to New York waterways could help minimize effects of hurricanes — The New York Times

Julia Moskin outing the fact that most chefs don’t write their cookbooks — The New York Times

Ben Wallace’s nuanced take(down) of Brooklyn’s foodie fantasia — New York

Brent Cunningham is CJR’s managing editor.