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Homecoming
5/5 Novelist Audrey Niffenegger on alternatives to delicious ice cream now she cannot eat it.

Two Seaside Buns
4/5 Author Simon Van Booy, transplanted to New York, compares hot dogs and lobster rolls.

The Cookout
3/5 Author TC Boyle considers how cookouts are memorable markers of his American summers.

Cheeseheads
2/5 American author Nathan Englander discovers an obsession with cheese in Midwestern markets.

Corn on the Cob
1/5 Author Susan Orlean celebrates corn on the cob, integral to an American summer.