Mexico City: Where the Mercado Still Sets the Table
The capital's public markets feed the city twice a day — and the oldest of them hold the food history museums never quite deliver.
Food
What a region eats and when.
Reading the Rind: What Emilia-Romagna's Origin Marks Actually Guarantee
A pin-dot rind, a five-point ducal crown and a numbered vinegar seal each stand for a specific clause in a published product specification. Here is what those clauses require, and where in Parma and Modena a traveler can book a visit to see them applied.
A Year of Eating: The World's Food Festivals, Month by Month
From the Alba truffle fair's October opening to Oaxaca's July Guelaguetza tables, a traveler's calendar of the food festivals whose dates are fixed by tradition, harvest, or church bell.
Colombia's Coffee Triangle: Staying on the Farms of the Eje Cafetero
In the green mountains of Quindío, Caldas, and Risaralda, coffee is a working landscape UNESCO listed as a whole — how to sleep on a finca, pick a basket, and drink tinto the Colombian way.
Cherry Season in the Jerte Valley: Spain's Greatest Fruit Harvest, Up Close
More than a million cherry trees climb the walls of a single Extremaduran valley — when the Picota harvest starts in June, the roads of the Valle del Jerte turn into one long fruit stand.
Where Coffee Begins: A Guide to Ethiopia's Yirgacheffe and the Coffee Ceremony
Arabica grew wild in Ethiopia's southern forests long before the rest of the world drank it — how to visit the Yirgacheffe highlands, taste at origin, and be a proper guest at the coffee ceremony.