When it comes to food, London's West End district in the city center doesn’t have the best rap. Many locals will say that you need to venture out of zone one to eat some authentic cuisine. I disagree.
24.10.2023 - 14:37 / forbes.com / Art
Last weekend following a sweeping two-year renovation, Washington, D.C.’s National Museum of Women in the Arts reopened its doors. There’s lots of new updates awaiting, such as a meticulously restored roof and facade of the historic 1908 building that once was a masonic temple; easier accessiblity; and thought-provoking exhibits in expanded spaces like The Sky’s the Limit, which displays 33 large-scale sculptures and installations from 13 women artists around the world including Shinique Smith, Joana Vasconcelos, and Sonya Clark. What’s remained unchanged is the institution’s steadfast mission in championing women in the arts—which it’s done since being founded in 1987 by philanthropist and art collector Wilhelmina Cole Holladay.
While the U.S. has made great strides in advancing gender equality across arts and culture, hospitality, and other professional fields, the work is far from over. Despite being the first female executive chef of the now-closed Galileo (a dining hotspot in the 1980s and 90s), being nominated as a James Beard Foundation semifinalist three years in a row, and currently leading Centrolina and Piccolina—a beloved Italian restaurant and café specializing in regional and rustic Italian cuisine—chef Amy Brandwein still routinely faces sexism and challenges in being taken seriously in the kitchen.
To help shift “the lens through which women are perceived,” Brandwein has an all-women leadership team overseeing her businesses, and has also mentored for The LEE Initiative's Culinary Education Program, whose goal is to foster more equality in the restaurant industry through continuing education and work programs for women. At the end of the day, Brandwein just wants to “help women succeed on a very high platform” and “make sure they’re taken seriously.”
The good news is that supporting the cause can be as simple as visiting and spending time and money at businesses that are led, staffed by, and created with women expressly in mind. So below are eight more notable spots you should put on your checklist for your next visit to Washington, D.C.
Restaurateur Jeanine Prime’s highly anticipated follow-up to Cane, her casual eatery specializing in everyday eats from Trinidad and Tobago, St. James celebrates the diverse culinary cultures (African, East Indian, Chinese, Western European) contributing to Caribbean food culture. Staples like callaloo, braised oxtails, and jerk wings are absolutely spot on, as are lesser-known dishes such as the umami-rich Trini-Chinese Chicken basted with oyster-habanero sauce. Wash it all down with a Trinidadian rum cocktail.
Stepping into Adams Morgan’s Lapis is askin to entering the home of the Popals, the family behind the beloved modern Afghan bistro. Kitted out
When it comes to food, London's West End district in the city center doesn’t have the best rap. Many locals will say that you need to venture out of zone one to eat some authentic cuisine. I disagree.
An American woman has divided TikTok with a video calling all British food "terrible" after she said she was shown around by locals and enjoyed almost nothing she ate. While many fellow tourists agreed with her, a number of British people have hit back, saying she went to the wrong places and ate the wrong food.
The fashion designer Marco Zanini’s mother is Swedish, but growing up in his father’s native Italy, he never gave his Nordic roots much thought. It wasn’t until he turned 30 that he “became passionate about anything Scandinavian,” says the Milan-based 52-year-old, who served as the creative director of Halston, Rochas and Schiaparelli before launching his namesake ready-to-wear brand in 2019. “I started to spend my summers there, digging into anything that felt and looked Swedish.”
The Alps tend to tower to mind when you picture skiing in Europe, cutting across France, Switzerland, Austria and Italy.
In its first appearance at World Travel Market (WTM) 2023, Trip.com Group, a global leader in travel services, laid out its inroads into the European market and the transformative role of artificial intelligence. The event, held from 6-8 November in London, provided a platform for Trip.com Group to articulate its vision of reshaping the travel experience with advanced AI technology and to solidify its position as an emerging key player in the European travel market.
At 27 years old, I completed my wanderlust dream of traveling to every country in the world as a solo female traveler. To be exact, I've visited all 193 sovereign nations — plus Taiwan, Kosovo, and Palestine. Then, by the age of 30, I achieved my athletic dream of becoming an Ironman. I find great fulfillment in inspiring and educating young women to get out and pursue their passions — or whatever gets them excited in life.
In its latest push for rail improvements, the Biden administration has announced billions of dollars in federal funding for more than two dozen projects along Amtrak's busy Northeast Corridor.
Like so many travelers, my family spent the first couple of years of the pandemic dreaming of visiting a place that was very far away and had become very, very inaccessible to visitors. In our case, it was South Korea, where my wife was born. We'd last visited in 2015, when our daughter was learning to walk and our son, as I've often joked since, was with us but we didn't know it yet. We promised the family there that we'd be back within five years, but COVID-19 intervened.
‘Unspoilt’ is a word you’ll repeatedly hear if you ask visitors to describe Tobago — an island of roughly 60,000 people that sits near the southernmost end of the Caribbean archipelago, just north of its big sister, Trinidad. Connected millennia ago to the South American mainland, Tobago is gifted with a distinctive mix of continental and Caribbean island ecology. It’s now home to beautiful beaches, colourful coral reefs, 10,000 acres of protected rainforest — the oldest such reserve in the Western Hemisphere — and over 260 species of birds.
Visitors at any Paradisus by Meliá resort in Mexico and the Dominican Republic now have the opportunity to savor a unique and exclusive menu crafted by the renowned Chef Antonia Lofaso. Chef Lofaso has artfully created this limited-edition menu using locally sourced ingredients from the distinct regions of these resorts. This menu not only embraces local flavors but also celebrates her Italian-American heritage.
A tourist was killed after a glass panel broke on a suspension bridge in Indonesia on October 25, the The Jakarta Post reported, citing local police.
There's more great news for select Capital One cardholders, as the credit card issuer opens its third lounge on Friday.