Food
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Tunisian Food: The North African Cuisine That Harissa Built
North African food is frequently discussed as if it were a single cuisine — couscous and…
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Andean Food: The Highland Cuisine That Lima’s Restaurants Are Only Just Discovering
The story of Peruvian food that the international food media tells is largely a Lima story:…
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Ecuadorian Food: The South American Cuisine That Three Worlds Built
Ecuador is the smallest country in South America (excluding island nations) and contains within its borders…
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Venetian Food: The Lagoon Cuisine That the Tourists Walk Past on Their Way to Dinner
Venice has one of the worst reputations for food in Italy, and the reputation is both…
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Afghan Food: The Silk Road Cuisine That the World Has Not Yet Discovered
Afghanistan sits at the geographic centre of Asia — bordered by Iran to the west, the…
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Emilian Food: Why Bologna Is Called La Grassa and Has Earned Every Syllable of It
Bologna has three names in Italian: La Rossa (the Red, for its terracotta porticoes and its…
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Swahili Food: The Coastal Cuisine That the Indian Ocean Built
The Swahili Coast — the 4,000-kilometre stretch of East African coastline from Somalia in the north…
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Yucatecan Food: The Mayan Cuisine That Has Been Cooking in the Jungle for Three Thousand Years
The Yucatán Peninsula — the flat, jungle-covered limestone shelf that juts into the Gulf of Mexico…
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Vietnamese Regional Food: Why Where You Eat in Vietnam Changes Everything
Vietnam is 1,650 kilometres long from the Chinese border in the north to the Mekong Delta…
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Catalan Food Is Not Spanish Food. Here Is Why That Distinction Matters.
The conflation of Catalan cuisine with Spanish cuisine is a category error with political dimensions that…
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Sicilian Food: The Island That Cooked Under Every Conqueror and Came Out Winning
Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean, and for three thousand years it was the…
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Jordanian Food: The Mansaf, the Mezze, and the Meal That the Desert Built
Jordan sits at the crossroads of the Arab world — bordered by Syria to the north,…