Food – Strangers Guide

Global

The Curry Chronicles

In the West, Indian food has become a bland bastardization of the complex original.

by Nikhil Merchant

Skimming across a menu at one of Los Angeles’s critically acclaimed ethnic Indian restaurants, I didn’t...

Uganda

Fruits of their Labor

How farmers changed the way Ugandans eat

by Esther Muwombi

The violence in Uganda was escalating when my parents fled to Kenya on foot, trekking through...

Japan

The Momofuku Ando Instant Ramen Museum in Osaka, Japan, is devoted entirely to instant noodles. It boasts a chicken ramen factory where you can...

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Europe

“The notion that oysters are an aphrodisiac is legendary. In Greek mythology, when Aphrodite, the goddess...”

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England

““O Oysters, come and walk with us!” The Walrus did beseech. “A pleasant walk, a pleasant...”

Readings

Palawan

Over 10 years ago, a fisherman in Palawan, an island archipelago in the Philippines, found what’s believed to be the world’s largest pearl. The...

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England

Oysters have a storied history in Britain: Before the Roman invasion, the British regarded them as a poorer substitute for meat or fish. The...

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Texas

Matagorda Bay is the point where Texas’s 862-mile Lower Colorado River empties out into the Gulf of Mexico, creating a brackish soup that is...

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United States

A few years ago, engineers at the University of Twente in the Netherlands worked out the “water footprint”—that is the amount of fresh water...

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England

“There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance; pray, love, remember; and there is pansies, that’s for thoughts… There’s...”

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India

“I am a Mistress of Spices. I can work the others too. Mineral, metal, earth and...”

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Global

In 1667, under a treaty that brought to a close the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the British got to keep the island of Manhattan (then...

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