History & Culture
The layered, complicated stories behind a place — not just what it looks like now.
Dispatches
Sept 2026It took me a while to realize I was eating the Mexican flag.
Aug 2026There are museums you visit for the art, and then there are museums where the building itself is half the story
Aug 2026We decided to spend a day wandering around Centro Histórico, with input, and thankfully a few deviations from our AI overlords.
Aug 2026I love Coyoacán. It’s one of my favorite neighborhoods in Mexico City.
Feb 2026Floreana has it all: an isolated island, seven people trying to cohabitate (or not), love triangles, a missing Baroness, shipwrecked bodies, competing stories all resulting in a mystery that has never been solved.
Jan 2026Markets fill with yellow underwear, yellow clothing and yellow decorations, all bought in the hope that the colour brings luck and abundance in the year ahead.
Apr 2025Two months on Moorea, and it was the churches I kept photographing — pastel, concrete and coral stone against all that green and blue.
Tables
Sept 2026It is peaceful and wonderfully old-fashioned. I always feel as if I am having lunch at someone's wealthy aunt's house.
Jun 2026Honolulu's Chinatown feels alive, which I can't say for a lot of Chinatowns across America — and Senia is the place to grab a table, or better yet, a seat at the bar.
May 2026I love anything that feels like a secret. A hidden supper club down a residential soi in On Nut, no ordering required — just Dylan's food, Chow's company, and a long conversation about curry.
Mar 2026Three blocks from our apartment in Casco Viejo. So, naturally, we went. And then we went back. And then we went back again. It became our place.
