Ladies, this month don’t miss flipping through the March, 2005 edition of Esquire. The men’s magazine is giving no hint of it on the cover, but inside you’ll find their annual feature: “Esquire Eats America�.

Yes, in order to get to it you are going to have to wade through pages of the usual male preoccupations: girls, gadgets, gear. (And for some inexplicable reason, numerous photos of fey young puppies in their daddies’ suits.) But once on target, there are some interesting leads to the best food bites in the USA, a profile on New York chef Wylie Dufresne and his “fun food factory�; breakfast recipes; a food snob quiz; an ode to the “not so dry martini� and an item on how Starbucks is about to become the world’s largest record store.

But if that’s not yummy enough to sink your teeth into there is always Clive Owen on page 132. Ah, the bad boy appeal of the broken nose. Like greying temples, it’s another unequal opportunity item that totally works for men and doesn’t do a damn thing for women.

Things we wish we hadn’t learned from reading this issue:

[from an interview with actress Eva Mendes] “ Yeah, I just got back from a two-and-a-half-week trip to Nepal and Bhutan with Cameron Diaz. She’s doing an MTV show called “Trippin’. She takes celebrities to remote places, and her purpose is to create environmental awareness. “

Oh spare us.