Meal 68: Guinea
Teeny dried shrimp. Pre-cooked fonio grain. Okra powder. Unlike shopping for Ghana, this time Diaby had everything I needed. As I got to talking with the man behind the counter — finally, for the first...
View ArticleMeal 69: Guinea-Bissau
If you know anything about Guinea-Bissau, chances are it’s the dubious media-granted title of “the world’s first narco-state” and the ensuing coup. Conveniently located just a few days’ boating from...
View ArticleMeal 74: Hungary
Though it’s common to think of Europe as being a jigsaw puzzle of peoples who’ve been there since before recorded history, the people who now populate the land known as Hungary didn’t show up until a...
View ArticleMeal 77: India
It’s absurd to squeeze a survey of Indian cuisine into one meal. From Kashmir to Kerala to Kolkata, there’s just a bewildering diversity of flavors, ingredients, and techniques that very well merit a...
View ArticleMeal 78: Indonesia
Indonesia’s all about the islands. It’s got over 17,000 of them, including large parts second- (New Guinea) and third-largest (Borneo) islands in the world. It also has the most populous island — at...
View ArticleMeal 84: Jamaica
I was surprised to read in my research for this meal that a lot of Jamaicans wish they’d never gone independent from the United Kingdom, missing the economic stability and lower crime of that bygone...
View ArticleMeal 85: Japan
Japanese cuisine is a real delight of variety of cooking technique, flavor balance, textures and seasonal sensitivity, which is why it’s a shame that most Westerners only know it through the narrow...
View ArticleMeal 90: Kuwait
When I asked my parents if we could host the Kuwait nosh at their house while visiting over Thanksgiving, I had no idea that their new neighbor across the street, Amira, had grown up in Kuwait! The...
View ArticleMeal 92: Laos
If a lot of this food looks like what you’ve eaten at a Thai restaurant, it’s no mistake. Much of the population of northern Thailand is ethnically Lao, and many “Thai” restaurants in the US are...
View ArticleMeal 96: Liberia
This little slice of West Africa, internationally infamous for its brutal civil war and more recent Ebola crisis, has an unique origin story: it was founded by freed slaves who returned from the US....
View ArticleMeal 103: Malaysia
It turns out there’s a subtle but important distinction between “Malaysian” and “Malay.” The latter refers to an ethnic group and their language; the former is the name of a country composed of many...
View ArticleMeal 110: Mexico
Just like other great cuisines like Chinese and French, there’s plenty of regional variety in Mexico’s food. And just like rice with Chinese and bread with French food, there’s a ubiquitous starch...
View ArticleMeal 114: Mozambique
Wherever the Portuguese colonized, the exchange of ingredients and dishes was intense. Mozambique’s spicy grilled chicken spread throughout the empire, becoming beloved from Lisbon to Goa, while bread...
View ArticleMeal 116: Morocco
I love spices. I love meats cooked with sweet flavors. I love Moroccan food. This was one of our very most anticipated meals, and I went pretty overboard with all the dishes and condiments. But with...
View ArticleMeal 117: Myanmar
Burmese food is intense. Funky, fiery, crunchy, soupy, tangy, herby…a full meal is a real workout for your palate. It bears some resemblance to Thai food, but with more crispy bits, more turmeric, and...
View ArticleMeal 118: Namibia
Namibia is a dry place. Most of it is desert, the best-known of which being the Kalahari, with a little strip classified as “semi-arid.” In such an environment, few vegetables grow, so for thousands of...
View ArticleMeal 120: Nauru
If you’ve heard of Nauru, it’s likely because of the refugee detention center that Australia operates there. It’s just about the only thing going on economically there, since the decline of the...
View ArticleMeal 126: Oman
Out of the 193 UN members, Oman’s the only one that begins with O. It sort of stands alone geopolitically, too. It’s a lot lower-key than its Middle East neighbors, with neither the flashiness of other...
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