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Food & Drink

Bowled over

Kagawa is a prefecture so enamoured with Sanuki udon noodles that the delicacy is both tourist attraction and TV star. We tuck in.

  • Issue #129
  • 10 min read
Four staff members smile outside a traditional Japanese udon restaurant with wooden signage and noren curtains.
Travel and restaurants

New wave

Northern Spain has long been overlooked by visitors and entrepreneurs but there's a glint of revival in its under-the-radar restaurants and inns. We pack a trunk for a roadtrip.

  • Issue #126
  • 15 min read
Aerial view of the coastal town of Luarca with its harbor, colorful buildings, and surrounding mountains in Asturias, Spain.
Arts

Christoph Niemann

The illustrator and artist discusses food in his work, his talent for frying and the German capital’s gentrification – and doodles a quick portrait with the help of some salt and pepper, of course.

  • Issue #125
  • 5 min read
Christoph Niemann
Food & Drink

Get in gear

Once viewed with disdain in Tokyo, food trucks are now transforming disused parts of the city thanks to a canny new firm.

  • Issue #124
  • 8 min read
Get in gear
Urbanism

The good life

From communal evening strolls to languorous lunches with family and friends, Madrileños seem to hold the key to a long and happy life in Europe's capital.

  • Issue #120
  • 11 min read
The good life
Food & Drink

Anissa Helou

The author initially saw the cookbook as a manual and nothing more. But once she started writing about food – and discovered the importance of preserving her heritage – she couldn’t stop.

  • Issue #116
  • 5 min read
Anissa Helou holds a fresh red lobster while smiling at a seaside restaurant in Sicily.
Food & Drink

Maria de Lourdes Modesto

We break bread with Portugal’s most famous food writer and broadcaster to talk through her defining role in elevating Portuguese food – and how she never even wanted to be on TV.

  • Issue #112
  • 4 min read
Maria de Lourdes Modesto
Media

Janice Min

Growing up Korean-American in a household that avoided chopsticks, Janice Min found her voice transforming Hollywood's most powerful trade publication — and eventually, her relationship with food.

  • Issue #106
  • 5 min read
Janice Min

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