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Mr Fitzpatrick's has long served as a community hub.

The Radical Roots of Britain's Last Temperance Bar

It's now a monument to a forgotten campaign against alcohol.

BY Jenny Elliott
<em>Soup Pot</em> is meant to be a gleeful take on home cooking.

The Indie Video Games Bringing South and Southeast Asian Food to Your Screen

Cook for vampires or restore lost recipes with these diverse games.

BY Samantha Chong

Cook Your Way Through Regional Indian Recipes With This Online Archive

Why 18th-Century Scots Performed Mock Human Sacrifices Over Oatcakes

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Places to Eat & Drink

The hamburger vending machine.
Tokyo, Japan

Tateishi Burger Vending Machine

A charming, homemade vending machine dispenses burgers and sandwiches at this hole-in-the-wall bakery.
Fuli Township, Taiwan

Luoshan Organic Tofu Farm

Learn to make this village's specialty: volcanic mud tofu.
So much hot sauce!
Chicago, Illinois

Heaven On Seven

Hidden on the 7th floor of a historic building, this Cajun spot features wall-to-wall bottles of hot sauce.
The top few floors and roof of the market.
New Delhi, India

Khari Baoli Rooftop

The roof of one of the world’s largest spice markets provides a grand view over the neighborhood's glorious bustle.
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Stories

A field of dead olive trees, all many hundreds of years old, in Scorrano, Italy.

The Farmer Trying to Save Italy's Ancient Olive Trees

A fast-spreading bacteria could cause an olive-oil apocalypse.
BY Agostino Petroni
The ease of making coffee jelly may have been its downfall.

Make a Historic Boston Dessert That Became a Japanese Favorite

Unless you make it yourself, coffee jelly can be hard to find stateside.
BY Anne Ewbank
Apple blossoms peeking out of the ice.

Why Italian Apple Farmers Are Coating Their Orchards in Ice

Freezing the trees, blossoms and all, may be the only way to save the crop.
BY Vittoria Traverso
Both the cover image of "Whoever Said Dykes Can't Cook?" and its contents emphasized how cooking can be a joyful, loving act.

How Lesbian Luminaries Put Together a Groundbreaking Cookbook

'Whoever Said Dykes Can't Cook?' combined art, food, and fundraising.
BY Rachel Hope Cleves
A snail from the Paxman farm.

80,000 Snails, 12 Tiny Electric Fences, and 1 Rediscovered Recipe for 'Wallfish'

It's snail-herding season in England.
BY Richard Collett
David Shorter prepares herbs from his garden to make tinctures. From left to right: blue lily flowers, calea zacatechichi, lavender, and gordolobo.

Help Curate This Vast Trove of Kitchen-Table Remedies

The Archive of Healing includes hundreds of thousands of folk healing traditions from six continents.
BY Reina Gattuso
Get a Taste of the Upcoming Gastro Obscura Book

Want to see the cover?

BY Dylan Thuras