Food tips

Jan 16, 2025 • 6 min read

Jan 16, 2025 • 12 min read

Speaking to Virgilio Martínez—undeniably Peru's most lauded chef of the past decade—it's clear that being the brains behind a restaurant repeatedly named the best in the world (his Lima spot, Central) means that every meal offers the potential for inspiration.

Jan 13, 2025 • 10 min read

Jan 13, 2025 • 8 min read

Wildfires in Los Angeles County continued to burn on Monday, January 13, 2025, as firefighters worked to contain portions of the deadly Eaton and Palisades fires, at 14% and 33% containment as of Monday morning. A total of 24 people were reported dead on Sunday evening.

Jan 13, 2025 • 12 min read

Jan 12, 2025 • 8 min read

Jan 11, 2025 • 6 min read

How We Spent Our Family Vacation is a new column that unpacks a single trip down to the cost, from the point of view of families who love to travel.

Jan 10, 2025 • 9 min read

Shopping in Paris can mean a leisurely stroll down the Champs-Élysées, bopping between vintage boutiques on the cobblestoned streets of the Marais, or hitting the famed, twice-yearly soldes (sales, to the uninitiated). To locals like myself, however, shopping in Paris refers more to the often daily ritual of food shopping. Whether it’s shopping for seasonal produce at the outdoor marché or running the neighborhood circuit of épicerie (a small grocery store), boulangerie (bakery), fromagerie (cheese shop), and boucherie (butcher shop), there are a few items that serve to assist—and up the beauty of—those everyday errands.

Jan 9, 2025 • 9 min read

Namia River Retreat opened last month on the banks of the Thu Bon River in Hoi An, a coastal city in central Vietnam. The tranquil setting — all 60 villas stand between the water and a palm forest — inspires the resort’s wellness program. Activities include yoga, meditation and duong sinh (an Indigenous form of tai chi) sessions and swimming in the saltwater pool; there’s also access to riverside saunas, bamboo bicycles to explore Hoi An and sunset river cruises. An indoor-outdoor spa specializes in traditional Vietnamese medicine using herbs grown on the property and in nearby gardens. The villas themselves are more indulgent than you might expect at a wellness resort. Each comes with a private pool, a sunken bathtub and an outdoor shower, while the décor is replete with local touches, from the ash-wood furniture made in nearby Da Nang to the artisan-carved wooden wall hangings and photographs depicting Vietnamese life. And for food, you can choose between two restaurants: the Fisherman, a seafood spot, and the Merchant, where the playful menu offers cocktails inspired by street food (the Hoi An Chicken Rice Com Ga features a local rum infused with rice and chicken broth) and equally nontraditional dishes like cao lau carbonara, whose sauce is made with duck egg.

Imagine: You’ve just arrived in Wilmington and checked into the houseboat you’ll be calling home for a few days. You’re reluctant to leave your cozy digs, but you’re hungry, and tales of the monumental seafood tower at Seabird energize you.

Jan 7, 2025 • 6 min read

Jan 6, 2025 • 3 min read

Food and restaurants are some of the first things I look for when planning a trip, before I even settle on a vacation destination. Luckily for me, I have a friend group that’s very much on the same page, so when we were deciding where to go for our annual October group trip (arguably the best month to travel in much of Europe, in my opinion) it was pretty much a unanimous decision that San Sebastián was the place for us. Regularly named as one of the top cities for food in the world, we knew a long weekend bar hopping and tucking into plates of pintxos in a beachside setting would be ideal.

Jan 4, 2025 • 6 min read

Jan 4, 2025 • 11 min read

Happy New Year! Since many are focused on their health goals this month, we designed a special Saturday edition. Enjoy our best fitness reads to help you keep your wellness resolutions .