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Postcard: Amsterdam's Handmade Gouda
In Amsterdam, wax-encased rounds of handmade gouda are displayed like jewels at Henri Willig Cheese and More on the pedestrian shopping street, Leidsestraat. Made from Dutch cow's milk, the cheese is...
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Belgium Does It Better
by Jamie Feldmar Growing up in suburban Chicago in the 1960s, my father was a fanatically picky eater. Macaroni and cheese, frozen pizza, and McDonald's cheeseburgers with zero accouterments-those...
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The Road to Paradise
by Sylvie Bigar Every summer, my grandparents would rent a château near Cap d'Antibes, an unspoiled peninsula between Nice and Cannes overlooking the Mediterranean. I was too young to remember my...
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Chris Onstad: Bohemians in Benelux
by Chris Onstad Portland and the Air 1Because I do not sleep when it makes sense to, I stay up the night before our flight, mainly double-checking that the back door is locked (it is) and shining a...
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Natural Woman
by Marne Setton The day I left home, my mother put her copy of Frances Moore Lappé's Diet for a Small Planet in my hands. "This will guide you," she said. The laser beam of her loving attention had...
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5 Things You Can Only Get in Seattle
by Anna Stockwell Seattle residents like to say that coffee is such a lifeblood to the city because of all the gray days that rest over their harbor home. Maybe that's true, but as I ate my way around...
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Passage to the Amazon
by Neide Rigo At daybreak, I'm standing on the deck of a small passenger ferry heading down a branch of the Amazon river, in northeast Brazil. On the nearby banks there is jungle; dense, lush walls of...
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Postcard: Millstone Farm and Elm Restaurant
It was one of those inappropriately gorgeous days that follows a dreary week of incessant rain when I pulled into Fairfield, Connecticut on a day trip from NYC to tour the tranquil grounds of...
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Mother of the Blues
by Nick Malgieri During my childhood in New Jersey in the 1950s, summer was canning time, when the kitchen in our home filled with steam as my mother and grandmother put up jar after jar of tomatoes...
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Fair and Square
by Jane and Michael Stern Profligacy reigns at state fairs. They are all about the bests and the biggests, the strongest oxen and fastest horses, the tallest space tower ride and slickest water slide....
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Six Fairs Worth the Trip
by Jane and Michael Stern Iowa State Fair August 9-19 Inspiration for the Phil Stong novel State Fair, which was made into Rodgers andamp; Hammerstein movie musicals in 1945 and 1962, the blowout in...
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Viva Cantina
by Michael Parker-Stainback "Be sure to go into every cantina you can," a wise local friend advised when I moved to Mexico City in 2007. There are bars and lounges, but a neighborhood cantina is...
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Special Sauce
by Hugo Ortega In Mexico, salsa is an endless journey. Every microclimate, every state, has its own ingredients, its own methods of making it. If you counted all the salsas in Mexico, I assure you...
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Behind the Scenes: Juchitan in Full Bloom
by Beth Kracklauer Travelling in Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec during the height of fiesta season, I had more fun than I've had reporting any other story. In this photo, I'm the one dressed in pink;...
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Postcard: Savoring Mithai in India
In India, no celebration is complete without some mithai to sweeten the occasion. They are present at weddings and festivals, shared with visiting guests or bought, as in the case of my recent visit...
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A Guide to Mexican Grocery Stores in the United States
by Sarah Lawson, Sanaandeuml; Lemoine, and Eesha Sardesai ALABAMAEl MercadoThere aren't many Mexican grocery stores in Alabama, so it's a good thing this Birmingham storefront has it all: produce such...
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City Dozen: Gabriella Gershenson's Berkshire Mountains
Summer is the time to visit the small hamlets clustered in the Berkshire Mountains, a tree-covered highland that straddles western Massachusetts and Connecticut. Equal parts fertile farmland, high...
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The Interview: Diana Kennedy
by Beth Kracklauer Author of nine seminal books on Mexican cooking, a teacher and scholar held in the highest esteem by chefs around the world, Diana Kennedy has a passion for the traditional dishes...
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The Expat: Diana Kennedy
by Beth Kracklauer "The Julia Child of Mexico? Oh dear, what nonsense." Diana Kennedy is making her way briskly across the small central square of Zitácuaro, a town of about 150,000 in the...
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