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Curry is a dirty word — a slur, a prohibition, and a colonial mislabel four hundred years old. So why can’t any of us stop eating it?
The unheralded plantain has been a workhorse of cuisines across the tropics. We give you the full story.
From hornbills to hummingbirds, the tropics may be separated by oceans, but their forests are filled with familiar characters. Learn five bird families and you’ll never walk through a tropical landscape the same way again.
The dosa has anchored South Indian breakfasts for over two thousand years. The crepe is younger, flatter, and considerably more celebrated. One of these facts deserves correcting.
We meet the Sundanese of West Java, Indonesia to better understand how the byproducts of tofu and peanut oil production are upcycled into a highly bioavailable protein.
The story of the Indigenous cultures of the Altiplano and their battle with the West over quinoa.
A celebration of the women that prepare and deliver the jamu across Indonesia.
For our very first Resistance Tasting Menu, we’ve put together 14 courses highlighting the unheralded Afro-Caribbean cuisine.
Examining the culinary mistake 19th-century European botanists made by treating torch ginger as a decoration.
How a collection of starchy roots became part of the West African cultural firmament.
The story of nutmeg, cloves, and the regenerative agricultural practices that helped them thrive.
