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One of Anna Kharzeeva's adaptations of the "Soviet pizza" recipe.
food

Eat Like You're in the USSR With 'The Soviet Diet Cookbook'

By making pizza approved by the Communist Party.
Dalia Wolfson July 20, 2020
Ingredients that underpin the cuisine include pitseed goosefoot (left), a type of physalis known as ground cherries, among other names (center), and sunflowers pressed into oil (right).
restaurants

The Cherokee Chefs Bringing Back North America’s Lost Cuisine

Researching traditional foods led them to the revelations of an archaeological dig in Kentucky.
Eric J. Wallace June 4, 2020
Kitchen hacks from tough times past.
food

Even More Historic Dishes Born From Tough Times to Make at Home

For every crisis, a recipe.
Luke Fater April 27, 2020
The peak of cheesy, starchy comfort food.
food

A Guide to the World’s Most Comforting Foods of Grief

In an age of distance, we can still connect in the kitchen to mourn, memorialize, and heal.
Sam O'Brien April 20, 2020
Nonnas of the World rule the New York skyline, thanks to some clever photo manipulation.
restaurants

Taste the Globe With Recipes From New York's All-Grandma Kitchen Crew

Nonnas of the world, unite!
Reina Gattuso April 13, 2020
From Vikings to grandmothers, people around the world keep cooking.
food

7 YouTube Channels for the Stay-at-Home Food Adventurer

Get inspired by these imaginative cooks from around the world.
Anne Ewbank April 8, 2020
You probably have the ingredients for sugar cream pie in your kitchen.
food

7 Historic Dishes Born From Tough Times That You Can Make at Home

Use every last crumb with these feats of culinary creativity.
Sam O'Brien March 30, 2020
restaurants

The Chef Restoring Appalachia's World-Class Food Culture

A coal fortune is fueling the revival of a cuisine it nearly destroyed.
Eric J. Wallace January 10, 2020
In Kugluktuk, Nunavut, Malaya Qaunirq Chapman and Millie Kuliktana make arctic char antipasto.
television

How a Cooking Show in Canada's Far North Celebrates Inuit Cuisine

Hunting, fishing, and sharing the catch are all part of the program.
Luke Ottenhof November 11, 2019
Queens, New York

Warung Selasa

Shop while you wait for a table in this tiny Indonesian eatery within a mini-mart.
At Dombo's food stall in Araku, bamboo biryani cooks over an open flame.
food

The Biryani Cooked Inside Bamboo

A tourism bureau's embrace of a tribal dish brings both promise and peril.
Namrata Kolachalam October 16, 2019
As omnivores, bear meat and fat typically take on the flavor of their diet.
food

Why Bear Fat Makes for Better Baking

This niche practice was commonplace in North America for centuries.
Luke Fater September 20, 2019
Making the spices is often a symphony of jangling bangles and rhythmic pounding.
food

How Mumbai's Masalawaalis Make a Single Spice From 30 Ingredients

Bottle masala is impossible to find in stores.
Beverley Ann D'Cruz September 20, 2019
The Flying Jacob is an unlikely concoction that tells the story of Swedish food culture.
food

How a Banana-Chicken Casserole Defined Swedish Cuisine

The recipe for "Flying Jacob" was the improvised creation of an air-freight worker.
Luke Fater August 26, 2019
The exterior of the kitchen.
Singapore

Krishna's Kitchen

Little India's hidden gem of kindness and good food.
Ruins of a blubber oven in Smeerenburg.
Amsterdam Island, Norway

Smeerenburg Blubber Ovens

These circular ruins are all that remain of a 17th-century Arctic whaling outpost.
Permanently Closed
Sidney, Ohio

Wagner Manufacturing Company Factory

The headquarters of a pioneering cast iron and cast aluminum cookware company is in ruins, but still standing.
This 1920 Eagle toy stove by Hubley Manufacturing Company features a working damper and came with a waffle iron.
objects of intrigue

Before the Easy-Bake Oven, Toy Stoves Were Beautiful and Deadly

They burned real fuel and caused real damage.
Anne Ewbank April 10, 2019