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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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Apeel’s Mission to Save the World’s Produce

Starting with the state’s beloved avocado, the California-based Apeel Sciences has found a natural way to extend the life of produce and reduce food waste.

Eme Alfonso on old and new challenges for Cuban musicians

Eme Alfonso on Cuban music education, new challenges for Cuban musicians, and growing up as the daughter of Cuban rock royalty.

Afro‑Cuban artist, cook, and queer activist Nancy Cepero on questioning everything

Nancy Cepero, vegan chef, queer anti-racist activist and artist, on trying to change Cuba’s food culture, self-care, and queer activism after the backlash against same-sex marriage.

Raiding the wine cellar with Billy Wagner

Drinking unique wines in Kreuzberg at the home of Billy Wagner, sommelier and proprietor of Berlin’s Michelin-starred Nobelhart & Schmutzig.

Mónica Baró on committing independent journalism in Cuba

Cuban independent journalist and Nathan Thornburgh talk about their respective arrests in Cuba, and about why she does what she does, despite all the risks.

Ailed Duarte on the unique pressures and pleasures of tattooing in Cuba

Ailed Duarte is co-founder of La Marca studio, which has helped bring tattoo art, once illegal throughout Cuba, into the mainstream.

Simon Shuster: Reporting on Russia in the Trump era

Moscow-born foreign correspondent Simon Shuster on reporting the world in the Trump era, Russian-American drinking styles, and life in Berlin.

Cuban rap royalty Telmary on rum, rhyme, and ritual

Cuban hip hop legend Telmary on her youth in Havana, making music from Cuba to Canada, and which region has the sweetest rum.

Roaming author, comedian, musician Jennifer Neal on calling Berlin home

Author, musician, and comedian Jennifer Neal on her journey from the US to Japan to Australia to Germany, her experiences as a Black woman abroad, and the perils of jaywalking in Germany.