Foreword

I grew up in France, splitting my time between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic sides, so the sea has always been important to me.

An Underwater Endeavor

IS CULTIVATING KELP THE WAY TO SAVE OUR OCEANS AND SLOW DOWN CLIMATE CHANGE? BREN SMITH IS BETTING THE FARM ON IT

Sweet Succulents

Briny sea strawberries were one chef’s gateway to foraging on the Chilean coast

Joshua Skenes Has A Fleet Of Fishermen And An Abalone Farmer On Retainer

THE CHEF OF TASTING- MENU TEMPLE SAISON GOES THE DISTANCE TO GET THE GOODS.

Mussel Memory

Dramatic tides make a mysterious disappearing act out of France’s moules de bouchot.

Preserving Tradition

Apple butter and ham jowl at one of Appalachia’s last communal canneries.

Chicago Is A City Divided By Barbecue

The South Side’s smoked rib tips and hot links represent an indispensable regional barbecue style, but half the city doesn’t know it exists. Why?

In Vino Agnolotti

Piedmont produces some of Italy’s best wine. Why not put it on pasta?

How Lasagne Landed In Africa

After Italian occupation, Eritreans reclaimed the layered dish as their own • 

Hallowed Be Thy Noodles

At worship with the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

The Maestro Of Venice

Evan Funke’s new Venice, California, restaurant Felix is currently the most exciting place to eat pasta in the United States. So rather than labor under the tutelage of a wise Italian nonna to learn the secrets of superlative traditional filled pastas, Test Kitchen director Stacy Adimando headed west

Drinking Wine In Tokyo

Alex Halberstadt on Japan’s natural wine scene, standing-room-only bars,and the new wave of domestic pours.

Is Any Butter Worth $50 A Pound?

Alex Halberstadt scores a bag of the creamiest, most coveted stuff on earth and ponders the question: Is any butter worth $50 a pound?

9 Things To Love About Florence

Porchetta sandwiches, drunken spaghetti, and other ways to love Florence

All Eyes On Santiago

Revitalized at long last, the Chilean capital - full of fresh seafood, incomparable produce, adventurous chefs, and national pride - is the world's next culinary hot spot.

The Puzzling Pendennis Club Cocktail

Investigative bartender Toby Cecchini on an exquisite pink gin drink and the club in Louisville, Kentucky, that forgot how to make it.

A Table In Havana

In Cuba's readily changing political environment, in-home restaurants known as paladares are proving to be particularly robust incubators for innovation.

What Ever Happened To Turtle Soup?

Jack Hitt explores the disappearance of an American delicacy and joins a hunting party to take part in a centuries-old culinary tradition.

The Land of Roast Goose and Dumplings

Alexander Lobrano returns to the sleepy villages of eastern Slovenia, where family-run inns serve the best-preserved old-fashioned cooking of Mitteleuropa.