Homesick for Ravioli and Sinigang na Baboy—Finding Home at the Table Abroad
Food is where you’ll find community. And when you’re on the road or living abroad, community is where you find home.
A Soup Is My Scrapbook—A Lesson in Culinary Evolution from Peru
I expected my first spoonful to be like swallowing a Fourth of July sparkler. And while it was definitely extremely spicy, for the first time in my life, I tasted other flavors mingling with the spice
All the Bright Places—A Memoir of Love, Loss & Little Debbie Pastries
After all this time, they’re still inextricable companions in my mind: Honey Buns and the Carolina coast. One taste of the pastry’s sticky-sweetness, one whiff preserved in plastic packaging and warm memories of childhood are conjured
Courgettes, Quiche, & Starry Skies—Small, Joyful Discoveries on a French Pyrénées Farm
I don’t know if it’s the weather, the soil, or some black magic worked by Pierre—who claims to have been many things: boy genius, writer, Harvard professor, farm hand, chef—but we have more courgettes (zucchini) this summer than we know what to do with.
Rwandan Umuganda—A Single Beating Heart
Carried back to East Africa by my recollections, it occurs to me: Maybe Rwanda is the answer to the fear that defines us right now.
Kindness of Strangers—An Amateur Autopsy in Ireland
Caught in a downpour while backpacking through the Ring of Kerry in Ireland, Shannon finds herself on the receiving end of good craic and the kindness of strangers.
Captive—From Beekeeper’s Daughter to Bee-Fevered Woman
Although I cannot pinpoint the exact moment bee fever caught hold of my nature-loving heart, it was thanks to a van of grinning Jamaicans in the summer of 2014 that I suddenly realized it had happened.
Open Southwestern Roads—Alone but for the Mesquite & Roadrunners
Author Michael Champlin takes us on a solo journey through the deserted landscape between Amarillo, Texas and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Aboard the Vivek Express
In her debut piece, photographer Rashi Arora takes us aboard the Vivek Express—the longest train journey in India. Rashi details and documents the conditions and the sensations on her five-day journey across the continent.
Poetic Relationships Between Farmer & Land—A Story of Palestine’s Olive Harvest
Filmmaker, Maggie Lamere, transports us to Palestine during harvest season where families and olive trees become an inspiration in sustainable farming.
