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Going Deep with Chef Andy Ricker

We spoke with the award-winning chef, restaurateur, and bestselling author who helped popularize Northern Thai cuisine in the United States and has been an important guiding force for the League of Travelers.

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The beer is cheap and the larb is fresh, but Chiang Rai is more than all that. These 10 bits of local wisdom will help get you started.

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.

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Dispatched by Anthony Bourdain

Each of these deeply reported features takes readers on a deep dive into unsolved crimes, underground scenes, and unsung heroes in this Anthony Bourdain-curated, Beard-award-winning longform series. From a murder in South Africa's winelands to a personal account of life, death and Mother Ayahuasca in the Peruvian Amazon, explore the favorite R&K dispatches chosen by our late partner and editor-at-large Anthony Bourdain.

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Building a Global Mangrove Movement

Mangrove ecosystems provide community livelihoods, function as biodiversity hotspots, and help mitigate the effects of climate change, but efforts to protect them have been patchy and localized. A few organizations have banded together to change that.

Making Waste Less Wasteful

In rural British Columbia, Catalyst Agri-Innovations Society is harnessing the power of poop.

The Good Food Encyclopedia

The team behind the Consupedia app are on a mission to create a more transparent and sustainable food industry, armed with a database of 250,000 products. With only a barcode scan, it tells consumers how sustainable and ethical their food choices are.

Food Waste Warriors

So much of American life can be improved by reducing food waste. ReFED can help.

A Cold Room for a Warming World

A Nigerian start-up takes on the problem of food spoilage at all steps of the production chain, one solar-powered cold room at a time.

Planting the Future

Deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon, an organization called Yakum is seeding a better, cleaner, greener future for the indigenous Siekopai

The Light Fantastic

New Zealand startup BioLumic is producing radically healthier and more productive crops, simply by exposing them to novel “recipes” of UV light

A Beginning Where Others See an End

How a 141-year old waste management company is pioneering the recycling—rather than mining—of phosphorus and other resources we need to keep feeding the world.

From South Africa, a WonderBag for the Future

The WonderBag is a slow-cooker designed to reduce cooking time, fuel use, and carbon emissions. It also lightens the load for women in countries where open-fire cooking and hours of unpaid labor daily falls to them.