After a couple of restaurant missteps on our last day in Japan, lunch at Sumi Kappo Hirac, a charcoal kappo restaurant in...
Looking for where to eat sushi in Osaka? After my go-to budget spot closed for good, I went looking for a replacement,...
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...
The dreaded Koshari: the monumental collective prank Egypt played on the world
A food-and-wine walk through the Supramonte: nine stops, centuries-old olive groves, prehistoric fairy houses carved into the rock, dozens of suckling pigs...
A wasted opportunity dressed up as a festival. Carloforte sits on an extraordinary fish, a unique Ligurian-in-Sardinia history, and one of the...
A Cagliari seafood omakase where poor fish becomes extraordinary, local ingredients are used with genuine passion and intelligence, and sixty euros buys...