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Travel

A restaurant's refrigerator is the perfect place to spend some private time.

Inviting Writing: The Restaurant Real World

I should have known there was something odd about Bob from the start

Bangkok’s floating market

Inviting Writing: Thai Spaghetti

A visit to Thailand unfortunately led to a meal of Italian food

Bee bim bap

What to Eat When You’re Adopting

Eating bulgogi for three: If we knew little about Korean cuisine, boy, we knew even less about parenting

Vintage radio

Music to Eat By

Baked cardoons

Inviting Writing: Aunt Molly’s Mysterious Greens

Today’s memory about cardoons comes from Susie Petitti Tilton, who works at Williams-Sonoma and has a small business baking decorated sugar cookies

Pancakes from IHOP

I’ll Have the Rooty Toot—Oh, Nevermind. World’s Most Embarrassing Menu Items to Order

In no particular order, here are my top five most embarrassing things to order (not including the IHOP dish, the clear winner)

Cinco de Mayo: Who Prepares Your Food?

Hispanics are a major presence in the American food system—and the largest Hispanic group in the country is of Mexican origin

Northern Michigan's rocky coast, shown here is a Presque Isle cove, has long beckoned as a summer playground. The picturesque region, wrote American naturalist Edwin Way Teale, is "a land of wonderful wilderness."

The Wonderful Wilderness of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

Immortalized by Longfellow, the Midwest’s preferred vacation spot offers unspoiled forests, waterfalls and coastal villages

Baklava, a pastry called tulumba, Bosnian pita stuffed with potatoes, and Turkish coffee at Berix.

Visiting Bosnia via St. Louis

A burgeoning community in the Gateway City is the place to find lepini, cevapi and other Bosnian treats

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Wiarton, Ontario, Canada

A small town on Colpoy Bay

Chugging Maple Sap

Instead of pouring maplsyrup on pancakes, South Koreans are drinking the straight sap

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