November 18, 2013 | Vol. 182, No. 21

COVER
The Gods of Food (The Culture)

TIME picks the people who most influence what we eat ― and how we think about it
Andrea Petrini: Paris’s Culinary Starmaker

France’s great cultivator of talent
Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi: Masters of the Holy Land Kitchen

The London-based chefs bring Jerusalem’s cooking to the world
Sergio Nuñez de Arco: The King of Quinoa

How the poor man’s food from the Andes made it in America
Dan Barber: King of Kale

The New York chef is rooting his activism in delicious cooking
Aida Batelle: Riding Coffee’s Wave

One woman’s El Salvador coffee plantations are fueling a new trend
Vandana Shiva: Prophet of Boom and Doom

In New Delhi, she’s the bane of big agriculture and genetically modified food
The Dudes of Food

Alex Atala of Sao Paulo, René Redzepi of Copenhagen and David Chang of New York
Got Milk? India Does

Amrita Patel is milking co-op cattle to feed India economy
Michael Pollan: Foodie Philosopher

The Berkeley, California author is writing the commandments of sustainability
Albert Adrià: The Magician of the Moment

El Bulli’s secret weapon is a secret no longer
Wan Long: Taking America’s Bacon to Beijing

Buying American quality to sate worried Chinese consumers
Ertharian Cousin Takes Aim at Hunger

How do you feed 95 million of the world’s poor?
The World’s Most Mysterious Sushi Provider

New Jersey’s True World, a company linked to the late Rev. Sun Myung Moon, dominates the distribution of raw fish

COMMENTARY
Frenemies: The U.S.-German Trade Story (The Curious Capitalist)

Sparring between the countries could damage the global economy
Scarborough: Chris Christie Is a Man for All Factions

Like Ronald Reagan before him, the New Jersey governor could unite the Republican Party

VIEWPOINT
Nothing to See Here
China’s leaders are deluding themselves if they think they can block the truth from the people

UNITED STATES
Chris Christie Was Born to Run
He won re-election in New Jersey with a campaign act designed to win the presidency in 2016. Why the New Jersey governor ain’t going away anytime soon
’Any one of those guys would love to trade with me... and have a little bit of a difficult life. They would be ALIVE’ (Veterans)
A deadly explosion in Iraq set Bobby Henline on a path to a new life

WORLD
A Great and Terrible Wilderness
Why Egypt’s lawless Sinai peninsula is turning into the most dangerous place in the middle east

THE CULTURE
Joel Stein: Step Away From the Phone Game, Mom (The Awesome Column)
People are wasting a lot of time. They should really leave that to the professionals
10 Questions for Doris Kearns Goodwin
The historian talks presidential relationships, gun control and dealing with baseball nerves

LETTERS
A Real Highflyer (Conversation)