What's behind our obsession with food?
A dashing gentleman in a white linen suit cracks open an egg. He deftly separates the egg white and places the golden orb of raw yolk into his mouth. Carefully, in order to not burst the fragile load, he moves toward his young lover, seeking her mouth. She parts her lips and receives the whole,... Read & Discuss 
There’s something reassuring about clutching a guidebook as you stumble from monument to monument through a foreign land, desperately seeking a public toilet (or at least an authentic meal). But with a new memoir by a former Lonely Planet author exposing fraudulence among travel writers, and the ever-increasing amount of... Read & Discuss
There’s something reassuring about clutching a guidebook as you stumble from monument to monument through a foreign land, desperately seeking a public toilet (or at least an authentic meal). But with a new memoir by a former Lonely Planet author exposing fraudulence among travel writers, and the ever-increasing amount of... Read & Discuss 
Twenty years ago, a business lunch of raw fish and rice was unthinkable. Now you can stock up on maki at the 7-Eleven. Similarly, calamari went from scary, tentacled oddity to ubiquitous bar food, and balsamic vinegar—once considered an odiferous foreign sap—is a standard flavor in designer chocolates. So what's next? We'll... Read & Discuss
Twenty years ago, a business lunch of raw fish and rice was unthinkable. Now you can stock up on maki at the 7-Eleven. Similarly, calamari went from scary, tentacled oddity to ubiquitous bar food, and balsamic vinegar—once considered an odiferous foreign sap—is a standard flavor in designer chocolates. So what's next? We'll... Read & Discuss 
In the summer of 1980, Fidel Castro emptied Cuba’s jails and shipped thousands of prisoners across the straits to Florida. Arriving alongside a mass exodus of 125,000 upstanding immigrants, the flotilla of violent criminals and political dissidents was Castro’s middle finger to the free world. As real-life Scarfaces1 became Miami drug... Read & Discuss
In the summer of 1980, Fidel Castro emptied Cuba’s jails and shipped thousands of prisoners across the straits to Florida. Arriving alongside a mass exodus of 125,000 upstanding immigrants, the flotilla of violent criminals and political dissidents was Castro’s middle finger to the free world. As real-life Scarfaces1 became Miami drug... Read & Discuss 
In the 1960s, you could spot a hippie1 a mile away—or so I’ve gathered from VH1 retrospectives and trips to San Francisco. There were telltale signs of countercultural couture, more “high” than “haute”: hair that spun its own stories and an anti-establishment posture that permeated both the pop and the prosaic strata of American culture. In... Read & Discuss 
