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Chattanooga, Tennessee

MoonPie General Store

This beloved American snack was conceived by a hungry coal miner.
Oaxaca, Mexico

Bodaega

This bakery forgoes industrial wheat in favor of locally harvested grains.
Babă neagră is gorgeously spongy.
cake

The Magic of Moldovan Black Cake

Dark, sweet, and spongy, babă neagră is a forgotten treat worth reviving.
Natalia Jidovanu January 29, 2025
<em>T'anta wawa</em>, or 'baby bread,' is baked in Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Argentina, and Ecuador in honor of those who have passed away.
bread

Bake 'Baby Bread' as a Celebration of Life and Death

‘Pan Y Dulce’ is Bryan Ford's love letter to Latin American baking traditions.
Diana Hubbell November 12, 2024
Zurich, Switzerland

Mühlerama Museum

Grind your own flour to bake your own bread at a 100-year-old mill.
New York, New York

Una Pizza Napoletana

One man’s obsessive, 30-plus-year quest is behind the pies at this spot on the Lower East Side.
restaurants

Globetrotting Through Denver: A Culinary Guide to International Flavors

These restaurants, breweries, and food halls bring traditional dishes and clever fusions to the heart of the Mile-High City.
Scio kolaches often come with apricot or sweet poppy-seed fillings.
food

Saving the Scio Kolache

A local take on a Czech pastry is fading along with the community that birthed it.
Sarah Lohman April 12, 2024
The strip of road is dotted with bakers' stalls.
roadside attractions

The Rare, Sweet Bread That Brings Road-Trippers to a Small Georgian Village

Nazuki, a traditional Easter bread, has become a year-round specialty in Surami.
Rowan Twine April 11, 2024
Coffee flour makes for decadent pancakes.
food

Fight Food Waste With Unusual Flours

Add something extra to your baking.
Andrew Coletti January 15, 2024
Ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg are so-called warm spices and the quintessential flavors of winter holidays.
holidays

How Ginger, Cinnamon, and Nutmeg Became Winter Spices

These tropical "warm spices," which flavor many Christmas cookies and other holiday favorites, are mainstays of traditional medicine.
Serina DeSalvio December 18, 2023
My Thanksgiving apple cake had some unconventional ingredients.
food

Try These West African Spices in Your Holiday Baking

Have some fun with fusion.
Andrew Coletti December 11, 2023
stores

Podcast: Tiny Bread Box

Trek through rural Vermont to find what is perhaps the cutest and most filling micro-store.
The Podcast Team November 15, 2023
Madrid, Spain

Secret Nun Cookies at Monasterio del Corpus Christi

Order cookies baked by cloistered nuns in a 400-year-old monastery.
A floral-studded cake.
cake

How a Groundbreaking Pastry Chef Bakes Outside the Lines

A conversation with Natasha Pickowicz on cross-cultural inspiration and her upcoming cookbook.
Diana Hubbell January 17, 2023
Glazed and unglazed <em>Elisenlebkuchen</em>.
food

German Lebkuchen Are a Labor of Love With a Centuries-Old History

Some of these gingerbread cookies take months to make.
Diana Hubbell December 23, 2022
The finished chocolate sauerkraut cake.
food

Who Decided to Put Sauerkraut in Chocolate Cake?

The infamous ‘Don’t Ask Cake’ is better than it sounds.
Diana Hubbell November 10, 2022
A sweet bread made with whole wheat Jordanian flour by artisan baker Ruba Asi.
bread

In Jordan, an Ancient Bread Tradition Rises Again

Al Barakeh Wheat Project resurrects the nation's heritage grain and, with it, a bygone communal culture.
Sam Lin-Sommer October 7, 2022