The Meat Prophet of Peru In the back room of a butcher shop in Lima, Renzo Garibaldi is doing things with meat that no one has ever seen or thought to do.
Barcelona City Guide Spain: A Love Story Told in 10 Dishes From nameless croquettes to Albert Adrià nature-defying olives, Matt Goulding’s milestones of a culinary courtship.
Keeping It Kosher Through the rise and fall of New York’s Jewish delis, Gottlieb’s in South Williamsburg remains unchanged.
A Stink Over Fermented Tofu in Shaoxing When the authorities started to get serious about food safety in China, one suspiciously smelling street food got caught in the crosshairs.
A Dinner of Herb Baths and Lobster in Salvador de Bahía In Salvador de Bahía, Spanish food writer Pau Arenós experiences a campfire banquet that showcases the faith, traditions, and ingredients of the Tereré quilombo—a community built by former slaves.
La Batalla por la Boqueria La Boqueria se ha mantenido fuerte a través de la guerra civil y las divisiones políticas, la tiranía y el terrorismo, las crisis económicas y los desastres naturales, pero en los últimos años ha encontrado un nuevo desafío implacable: el turismo de masas.
A history of Singapore in 10 dishes The history of a food-obsessed city-state through its multifaceted cuisine.
Lisbon City Guide A History of Lisbon in 10 Dishes Sardines, roast chicken, Cape Verdean stew, Nepali momos: the dishes to try in Lisbon.
A history of Philadelphia in 10 dishes Ice cream, pretzels, beer, plus Ethiopian wat (with karaoke!). Here are the 10 dishes that make Philly.
Johannesburg City Guide Introducing the i‑plate, Joburg’s colossal plate of comfort food A colossal mixture of food on one plate is Johannesburg’s comfort dish.
Edinburgh City Guide My Perfect Dish: Arbroath smokies Only a robust breakfast will get you through a Scottish winter.
Kathmandu City Guide The Perfect Dish: Sapoo Mhicha Nepal’s indigenous Newa community uses all parts of the buffalo in their cuisine. This treat of tripe and bone marrow might be the most delicious.
A glorious, comforting, and ridiculously calorific taste of northern Norway An introduction to møsbrømlefse, a hyper-regional dish from the northern Norway sea-coast district of Salten.
Searching for an ancient dish in a new city Cancún offers the cuisine of the Yucatán. You just to have to get out of the Zona Hotelera to find it.
Could A Scientist’s New Soil Treatment Solve Desertification? In a small dry corner of England, Aquagrain is creating a super-absorbent biodegradable hydrogel that could help crops grow in degraded lands. Aquagrain is a finalist for the 2024 Food Planet Prize. Read More
A Global Alliance of Mayors Aims to Make Good Food Cities Food accounts for 13% of cities’ carbon emissions every year. But a small league of C40 Good Food Cities, from New York to Quezon City, is hoping to change that.
Visions of Andalusia: Q&A with Beatriz Janer Ask Beatriz Janer about Seville’s storied Feria de Abril, and you’ll get a quick sense of what makes her photographer’s eye for detail so special.
A Fisherman’s Dilemma in the South China Sea The geopolitical struggle between China and the Philippines has strangled Filipino fishermen’s access to some of their richest fishing grounds
A Model Farm in the Yucatán Looks to the Ancient Maya Mestiza de Indias is an innovative, Maya-inspired regenerative farm in the middle of a region threatened by mass tourism and overdevelopment. Its founder has a lot to say about why food matters.
Bangkok’s Unlikely New Culinary Hero In a semi-hidden location in the north of Bangkok, an American-Thai chef has, somewhat improbably, opened one of the city’s most well-regarded restaurants.
A Memoirist in Mérida: Q&A with Jeremiah Tower Ahead of our League of Travelers trip to Mérida and environs, R&K’s Nathan Thornburgh caught up with Jeremiah Tower—Mérida resident, chef, author, diver and now Substacker—for a chat.
The Taste of Being Thrown Around by the Sea: Q&A with chef Mari Fernandez On Spain’s Asturian coast, in the small fishing town of Puerto de Vega, on Plaza Cupido—Cupid Square—a self-taught cook writes culinary love letters to the Cantabrian Sea.
In Kenya, Using Fungi to Fight a War on Weeds The Toothpick Company turns fungi into bioherbicide to fight Striga, a devastating “master weed” that has devastated an estimated 40 million farms in Africa.