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Postcard: A French Creole Island Feast in Martinique
by Betsy AndrewsI enjoyed the most amazing French Creole island feast at Mango Bay restaurant in the harbor in Fort-de-France, Martinique, a stop for the cruising yacht Wind Surf: stuffed crab, spicy...
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Behind the Scenes: Penny De Los Santos on Photographing Rancho San Julian
by Penny De Los Santos As soon as the assignment came in to shoot this story, I knew it was going to be beautiful. The location of the ranch, at that time of year, with such perfect weather-any part of...
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Postcard: Swordfish at Parallel Post
by Kellie EvansThere are very few things I don't find pleasure in eating, but somewhere near the top of that list is swordfish. Invariably, it is a dry, bland, hunk of pan-seared disaster, so I usually...
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A Haitian New Year's Soup
by Tequila Minsky As a reporter for a New York City newspaper that covers the Caribbean community at home and abroad, I have traveled, and eaten, throughout Haiti. I've savored the island's distinctive...
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Angelo Brocato's Cannoli
by Keith Pandolfi A trip to New Orleans can restore your faith in many things: jazz, Creole cooking, the human spirit-and, not least in my book, the cannoli. A single visit to Angelo Brocato's, a...
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La Mangeoire's Roast Chicken
One of the juiciest roast chickens we've ever eaten is served at La Mangeoire, a low-key French bistro on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The chef behind that chicken is none other than Christian...
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Istanbul's Best Coffee Shop
Kurukahveci Mehmet Efendi, the phenomenal 141-year-old Turkish coffee purveyor, is located in a weather-beaten deco building just outside of Istanbul's Spice Market. Through its street-front window,...
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The French Press
At Lafayette, Louisiana's most vibrant restaurant, The French Press, homegrown chef Justin Girouard makes his own boudin, the Acadian sausage of pork, rice, and cayenne. (Delicious.) Then he fries it...
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Playing with Fire and Water
In 2008 Linda Anctil, a private chef and caterer in Connecticut, asked herself this question: "What if I could cook whatever I wanted?" Over the past five years she has documented the answers to that...
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Lenny Russo
by Kara Buckner At Heartland Restaurant andamp; Farm Direct Market in St. Paul, Minnesota, chef-owner Lenny Russo showcases the bounty of the upper Midwest: in the fall, sugar pumpkin tartlets and...
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La Vega Central Market
A sprawling landscape of stalls and carts in the center of Santiago, Chile, La Vega Central Market vibrates with the brilliance of the country's agricultural bounty: fat yellow onions stuffed in mesh...
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Sindhi Biryani
by Felicia Campbell In Pakistan, when my boyfriend's mother, Najma Awan, served me Sindhi biryani, a specialty of the country's southeastern Sindh province, I fell in love. Like all great versions of...
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Hitachiya
by S. Irene Virbila This small Southern California store is packed with specialty Japanese cookware, many of the same items sold at the original shop in Tokyo's Tsukiji market. Sushi chefs seek out...
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Danish Hot Dogs
Danes are crazy about their hot dogs. On nearly every Copenhagen corner, a pølsevogn, or hot dog wagon, offers more than a dozen varieties. The knockout ristet hot dog, accented with sweet spices,...
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Swedish Tube Food
by Rebecca FisherThe first time I visited my husband's family in Sweden, I spent hours at the grocery store perusing the array of foods in tubes: soft cheeses, caviars, pâtés, all sorts of condiments....
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Il Buco Alimentari and Vineria
When a craving for pasta hits, no run-of-the-mill red sauce will do-we want bold, flavorful dishes that are both soothing and dynamic, rustic yet inventive. It's a tall order, one that is always...
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Cecilia Chiang
by Michael Bauer At the age of 93, Cecilia Chiang has the energy of a 30-year-old. We dine together often, and on a recent night out, we finished our dinner and a bottle of wine, but it was still early...
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Parcel-Post Food Gifts
by Victoria Pesce Elliott In summer, my husband, Eric, and I harvest hundreds of pounds of mangos from our Miami yard. We've become my parents. When I was a kid, their trees produced so many mangos...
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Mile End Smoked Meat
As an ex-Quebecer living in New York City, I couldn't believe my ears when I heard that a Montreal-style delicatessen would be opening here of all places, the North American mecca for corned beef and...
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Baleadas
In Honduras, baleadas are thick, wonderful, fresh wheat-flour tortillas folded over refried beans, crema, a sprinkling of funky queso duro, and, if you like, scrambled eggs or shredded chicken,...
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