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From Lagos jollof to Lyonnaise gratins, we translate the world's kitchens into recipes that fit a Tuesday.
12 Thai Curries Every Home Cook Should Try Once
The first time I watched a cook in Chiang Mai pound curry paste by hand, she did it for forty minutes without stopping. She told me the granite mortar was older than her mother. T…
12 French Tartines for an Effortless Picnic Lunch
The first time I packed tartines for a proper picnic, it was June 2019 in the Jardin du Luxembourg, and I had made the classic rookie mistake: buttering the bread that morning ins…
6 Brazilian Street Snacks to Bring to a Cookout
The first time I ate a coxinha that genuinely stopped a conversation, it was 11 PM at a stall behind Mercado Municipal in Sao Paulo, the kind of place where the fryer never cools …
8 Peruvian Ceviches and Tiraditos for Summer Lunches
The first time I ate ceviche in Lima, it was 11:47 in the morning at La Mar in Miraflores, and the waiter set down the plate with a quiet warning: eat it now, in the next four min…
12 Vietnamese Rice Paper Rolls Bursting With Color
The best gỏi cuốn I ever ate was on a plastic stool on Co Bac Street in District 1, Saigon, around 2 PM in August. The vendor wrapped rolls behind a stack of warm pink shrimp and …
12 Lebanese Mezze Dips to Anchor Your Dinner Party
The table I keep coming back to belongs to Teta Mouna, who lives one floor above a bakery in Achrafieh and sets her mezze in twelve shallow bowls the color of sea glass. Each dip …
7 Scandinavian Smorrebrod to Build for Summer Lunch
The first time I ate a proper smorrebrod was at Schonnemann in Copenhagen, a basement lunchroom that has been feeding civil servants since 1877. The waiter set down a slab of rye …
10 Ethiopian Stews to Scoop With Warm Injera Tonight
The first time I ate at Yod Abyssinia in Addis Ababa, the waiter set down a metre-wide tray of injera covered in nine bright mounds of stew and one small dish of awaze on the side…
8 Turkish Kahvalti Spreads to Build on Slow Weekends
The first time I sat down to a proper kahvalti was on a Sunday in Cihangir, Istanbul, at a small place called Van Kahvalti Evi. The table arrived in pieces: a bowl of kaymak the c…
7 Beginner Global Dinners You Can Actually Meal Prep
Last Sunday I cooked a double batch of Lebanese mujadara at 4 PM, divided it into four glass containers by 4:45, and ate the last portion on Thursday with a spoonful of cold yogur…
11 Indian Flatbreads You Can Bake on a Skillet at Home
The first roti I ever puffed properly was in a friend's mother's kitchen in Jaipur, on a flat black tawa that had clearly outlived three marriages. She watched me press the dough,…
9 Mexican Salsas to Make From Scratch This Week
The first time I watched Doña Vera grind a salsa at her comedor in Tlacolula, the molcajete held a tomato, three chiles de árbol, two garlic cloves still in their papery skins, an…
How to Build a Filipino Kamayan Feast in 7 Steps
The first time I helped lay a kamayan in Quezon City, the table was a borrowed plank of plywood balanced across two sawhorses, and the host's lola directed traffic in three langua…
7 Global Weeknight Dinners You Can Plate in 30 Minutes
The clock on my oven read 6:47 PM the night I finally cracked the code on weeknight global cooking. I had an open packet of red lentils in one hand, a half-jar of harissa in the o…
5 Comforting One-Pot Dinners From Around the World
The first time I cooked khichdi for friends in London, the rice and lentils had been simmering for twenty-two minutes and the whole flat smelled like cumin seeds hitting hot ghee.…
10 Caribbean Rice and Bean Dishes Worth a Sunday Pot
The first time I cooked rice and beans for a Trini auntie in Port of Spain, she lifted the lid, sniffed once, and told me my coconut milk was too thin. She was right. The rice was…
12 Global Breakfast Plates to Eat Before Noon
The most useful breakfast I ate last year was a plastic-stool affair in Hanoi. 6:42 AM. A bowl of pho ga the color of weak tea with a wedge of lime balanced on the rim. The woman …
How to Build a Korean Banchan Spread in 8 Dishes
The first time I sat down to a proper banchan table, it was a Tuesday in Seoul's Mangwon neighborhood. No occasion, just lunch. Twelve small dishes arrived before the soup did. Se…
7 Budget World Cuisines to Cook Tonight Under $12
Last Tuesday I fed four people a Sri Lankan dhal with tempered curry leaves for $6.40, and the most expensive thing in the pot was the can of coconut milk. That number is the spin…
8 Georgian Khachapuri and Breads to Bake This Month
The first khachapuri I ever pulled apart with my hands was on a bench outside a bakery in Batumi, three blocks back from the Black Sea, at 11 in the morning. The dough was still h…
10 South Indian Dosa and Chutney Pairings for Brunch
The first time I watched a tiffin cook at Murugan Idli Shop in T. Nagar flick batter onto a 26-inch tawa, the dosa was off the griddle in 78 seconds. He lined up three chutneys in…
11 Spanish Tapas to Cover a Table for Friday Night
The last time I cooked tapas for friends, I counted seventeen toothpicks on the table by 11pm and not a single fork. That is the test. A proper tapas night is not dinner with smal…
9 Levantine Salads That Outshine Any Side Dish
In a Beirut kitchen off Rue Gouraud in 2019, a woman named Mona showed me how she dressed her fattoush. She crushed garlic with coarse salt against the side of a wooden bowl, adde…
10 Moroccan Tagines That Fill the House With Spice
The first time I lifted the lid on a tagine in a riad kitchen off Derb el Ferrane in Fes, the cook, Khadija, told me to step back two paces before she did it. "The smell travels,"…
9 Persian Rice Dishes Crowned With Golden Tahdig
The first time I got tahdig right was in a borrowed kitchen in Tehran's Tajrish neighborhood, in a battered aluminum pot a friend's grandmother handed me without much ceremony. Sh…
7 Indonesian Sambals That Will Wake Up Any Dinner
The first time I sat at a warung in Ubud and the cook lined up six tiny saucers in front of me before the rice even arrived, I understood something. Sambal in Indonesia is not a c…
Top 5 Must-Try International Recipes for Flavorful Home Cooking
Weeknight dinners can often feel repetitive, but what if you could transform them into flavorful experiences? Let's dive into five delicious international recipes that promise to …
How to Make 6 Classic Asian Noodle Soups From Scratch
At a tiny shop on Hang Trong street in Hanoi, the cook skimmed her pho broth with a flat ladle every ninety seconds for the better part of an hour. She didn't stir. She didn't tas…
Pho vs Ramen vs Laksa: 6 Noodle Bowls Compared
It is 9:47 PM in a strip-mall plaza in suburban Houston. The woman two tables over is hunched over a bowl the color of weak tea, fishing out star anise with chopsticks. To her lef…
Quick and Easy International Recipes for Busy Weeknight Dinners
Finding time to prepare dinner on busy weeknights can be a challenge. But who says you can't enjoy international flavors in under 30 minutes? Let me take you on a culinary journey…
9 Chinese Dumpling Folds Every Cook Should Practice
The first time I sat down to fold dumplings with a stranger's grandmother, in a third-floor walk-up in Harbin in January 2018, she put a wrapper in my palm, looked at the lopsided…
11 Italian Pasta Shapes and the Sauce Each One Needs
The first time a nonna in Gragnano corrected my pasta order, I was twenty-three, holding a forkful of bucatini in what I thought was a perfectly reasonable pesto. She put her hand…
Healthy Dinners: 5 Easy International Recipes to Try Tonight
Are you ready to spice up your weeknight dinner routine? With our busy lives, it can be tough to whip up something healthy and delicious. But worry not! Here are five easy interna…
5 Must-Try Family Recipes from the World's Best Cuisines
Are you ready to spice up your dinner table? Exploring world cuisines can be an exciting culinary adventure, especially when it comes to family recipes that are not only delicious…
7 Flavor-Packed World Dinners to Cook Tonight
Last March, in a tiled kitchen in Oaxaca, a cook named Doña Reyna handed me a wooden spoon and told me the secret of weeknight food was not speed but order: spices first, aromatic…
7 Global Street Food Recipes Ready in 30 Minutes
The first time I ate bánh mì in Hanoi, I was standing outside a cart on Pho Hien street at 7 a.m., paying roughly 25,000 dong (about $1) for something more architecturally perfect…
Weeknight Global Bowls: 7 Easy International Recipes
The first time I made a Vietnamese lemongrass chicken bowl on a Tuesday night, my kitchen smelled like the open-air market on Hang Be Street in Hanoi. Dinner was on the table in 2…