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Food
Welcome to the Food section of Travel & Cravings, a place for everyone who loves discovering delicious food and unique culinary experiences. Food is an important part of every journey, and this section is dedicated to exploring flavors from different cities, countries, and cultures.
Here you will find food blogs, restaurant features, local food guides, street food discoveries, and reviews of popular dining spots. We share experiences from different places to help readers discover great food, whether they are traveling or simply looking for new places to try.
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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 tagine and ras el hanout, the Moroccan register that…
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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: ceviche, tiradito, Nikkei fusion, the Miraflores restaurants that have…
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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 three entirely different ecosystems — the Pacific coast, the…
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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 entirely deserved for the tourist restaurants and entirely undeserved…
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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 former Soviet republics of Central Asia to the north,…
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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 communist political history), La Dotta (the Learned, for 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 to Mozambique in the south, with Mombasa, Zanzibar, Dar…
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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 and the Caribbean between them, containing the Mexican states…
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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 in the south, shaped roughly like an elongated S…
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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 Catalans will not let you make twice in their…
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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 most fought-over piece of land in the sea —…
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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, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south,…