DIY or professional, stone or HORL3, Japan or back home: an honest, detailed guide to sharpening a Japanese knife and buying the...
Why a hinoki cutting board is the natural second purchase after a Japanese knife: what the wood is, where to buy one...
A corporate dinner the night before left my stomach negotiating a ceasefire, which means this review of Trattoria Natalino in Florence comes...
A single-bevel yanagiba bought at Jikko in Osaka, the six-hundred-year history of Sakai's blades behind it, and why the shopping experience felt...
Airport: Brussels Zaventem (BRU), Terminal A, Airside (Schengen area) Access: Priority Pass / Business Class (partner airlines) The Diamond Lounge at Brussels Airport is...
A honest review of the Montale lounge at the Malpensa Airport (MXP) in Milan
The Pontormo Rome exhibition opens in October. Here is a better use of the wait than counting down days: thirteen of his...
Once a year Florence licenses its oldest instinct. Between a Renaissance procession of staggering beauty and a sand pitch where twenty-seven men...
Who are the Maasai of Tanzania? Their real history, the Ngorongoro and Loliondo evictions, and whether tourist village visits are anything but...
The dreaded Koshari: the monumental collective prank Egypt played on the world