Postcard: 11 Madison Park
by Betsy Andrews At a dinner at Eleven Madison Park recently, the swellegant Swiss watchmaker, Blancpain, a 278-year-old family-run company, honored chef Daniel Humm. The watchmakers presented Humm...
View ArticleVirpominen: Easter Traditions in Finland
by Elsa Sandauml;andauml;telandauml; Growing up in Finland, Easter was always one of my favorite holidays. I remember spending the four-day weekend together with my family, playing outside in search of...
View ArticleFamily Style
by Pableaux Johnson In the photo in Time-Life's 1971 American Cooking: Creole and Acadian, Ella Brennan stands behind her nephew Pip and a table loaded with "typical breakfast items"-including chilled...
View ArticleGhanaian Local Flavor
by Katrina Moore When I went to live and study in Ghana's capital of Accra last summer, I was expecting authentic Ghanaian food. Unfortunately, as in most major cities, what I encountered was a global...
View ArticlePostcard: Restaurante Luis
by Camille Bromley The most memorable seafood restaurants in my experience are always no-frills beach shacks, the ones with rickety chairs, plastic silverware (when there is any at all), and too few...
View ArticleChocolate Turtles
by Jane and Michael Stern In 1918, a candy dipper in Chicago commented that the pecan-studded chocolate-covered caramel patties a salesman was hawking looked like turtles. Though the name stuck, these...
View ArticleBlue Ribbon Winner: Cordon Bleu in Zurich
by Adam H. Graham Zurich's working-class taverns often plate up Swiss comfort foods like rösti, kalbsbratwurst, and raclette melts. But they are especially beloved for their generous portions of cordon...
View ArticleNew Orleans Restaurants
by Sara Roahen Founded in 1718 by French colonists who saw the promise of commerce in this soft, curving land near the base of the Mississippi River, New Orleans has always been a city of entrepreneurs...
View ArticleOysters in New Orleans
by Todd Coleman As I found out while photographing this story, New Orleans is an oyster lover's town: They're emblematic, hungrily sought after, and seemingly everywhere. At the raw bar at Pascal's...
View ArticleNew Orleans
by Lolis Eric Elie In 1948, Louis Armstrong, my city's most famous jazz practitioner, told DownBeat magazine: "I always think of them fine old cats way down in New Orleans and when I play my music,...
View ArticleWinemaking in the Republic of Georgia
by Karen Shimizu Georgia is home to a unique winemaking tradition that stretches back thousands of years: Grapes here are crushed, then fermented skin-on for several months in buried earthenware...
View ArticleEverlasting Feast: Food in the Republic of Georgia
by Karen Shimizu I've thought about this meal so many times now that the memory of it feels like a dream: I'm seated at a table whose surface I can no longer see-it has disappeared entirely underneath...
View ArticleTravel Guide: Republic of Georgia
Dinner for two with drinks and tipInexpensive: Under $15; Moderate: $16-$30; Expensive: Over $30International flights land in Tbilisi, a 1,500-year-old city on the Kura River that's worth exploring....
View ArticleThai Farms in Florida
by Cory Baldwin If you're looking to open a restaurant in Miami Beach, Florida, a farm-to-table eatery serving authentic dishes from the Mekhong River region in Thailand may not be the most obvious...
View ArticleScenes from Georgia
In the Republic of Georgia, bold, unique flavors, ancient methods of winemaking, and epic meals are at the center of a way of life. See some of the places, people and moments senior editor Karen...
View ArticleQ and A with Philip Skip Lomax Jr., Line Cook at Mr. B's
by Sophie BrickmanHow long have you been at Mr. B's? This May 17, it'll be 33 years.How did you start cooking? I was in high school and got a job working at a country club as a dishwasher. They put me...
View ArticleQ and A with Charles Carter, Waiter at Antoine's in New Orleans
by Sophie BrickmanHow long have you been at Antoine's? This is my fifteenth year. I started as an apprentice waiter and was the second youngest person ever to be made waiter there, at 18. It's in my...
View ArticleKhao Soi Affair
by Jamie Feldmar Plenty of people fall in love with a dish while traveling, return home raving about it, and launch a quest to find the most authentic version they can get in their own city. Before a...
View ArticleQ and A with Karry Bird, Pot Cooker at Pascale's Manale
by Sophie Brickman and Kellie EvansWhat are your main responsibilities? All the back cooking. Oysters Rockefeller, Bienville, gumbo, the soups...well, basically the majority of everything in here, now...
View ArticleHome Cooking in Emilia-Romagna
by Jamie Feldmar Italy may be the destination for countless romantic fantasies, but I arrived in Emilia-Romagna alone, nursing a bruised heart from a recent uncoupling. The portico-covered cobblestone...
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