January 10, 2025

The Essentials: Where We Eat in Mexico City

Mexico City |
By Culinary Backstreets
Mexico City -- The streets of Mexico City, lined with vendors hawking everything form elotes to pan dulce, wind from leafy parks to old neighborhoods where music spills from crowded cantinas – here is a metropolis that sings a siren song to food lovers of every variety, making where to eat a hard question to answer simply. We’re talking more than just tacos. Comforting pozole, mole prepared every which way, the chocolate of legend, traditional cuisine abounds if you know where to look. Read more
Mexico City -- The streets of Mexico City, lined with vendors hawking everything form elotes to pan dulce, wind from leafy parks to old neighborhoods where music spills from crowded cantinas – here is a metropolis that sings a siren song to food lovers of every variety, making where to eat a hard question to answer simply. We’re talking more than just tacos. Comforting pozole, mole prepared every which way, the chocolate of legend, traditional cuisine abounds if you know where to look.

The old, the bold, and the new collide, and local flavors mix with regional and international influences – as they have for centuries. You'll find cochinita pibil from Yucatán sharing the stage with Oaxacan tlayudas, and contemporary chefs adding an elegant spin to age-old recipes. Here, culinary traditions are both honored and reimagined. Read more
January 9, 2025

First Stop: Ian McNulty’s New Orleans

New Orleans |
By Culinary Backstreets
New Orleans Editor’s Note: In the latest installment of our recurring First Stop feature, we asked writer Ian McNulty to share the first bite he goes for when he gets back home to New Orleans. Ian McNulty is a food writer for NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune in New Orleans. His commentary series “Where Y’Eat” airs weekly on NPR affiliate WWNO, and he is a frequent contributor to WWL radio in New Orleans. His books include Louisiana Rambles, a travel narrative about south Louisiana, and A Season of Night, an account of the first months in the city after Hurricane Katrina. You can follow Ian at @ianmcnultynola. Read more
January 8, 2025

Caffè Delizia: Bacoli Blends

Naples |
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Naples The last wood-fired coffee roaster in all of southern Italy is located, appropriately, in Bacoli. This area of Campi Flegrei, the Phlegraean fields of Naples (from the Greek word flègo, which means “burn”) is a part of the Gulf of Pozzuoli known since Roman times for its active volcanoes. Read more
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