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A Day in the Life of Mbok Jamu

A celebration of the women that prepare and deliver the jamu across Indonesia.

The Resistance Tasting Menu: Afro-Caribbean Cuisine

For our very first Resistance Tasting Menu, we’ve put together 14 courses highlighting the unheralded Afro-Caribbean cuisine.

The Flower That Bites Back

Examining the culinary mistake 19th-century European botanists made by treating torch ginger as a decoration.

Beware of Colonizers Bearing Gifts

How a collection of starchy roots became part of the West African cultural firmament.

The Islands that Bought Manhattan

The story of nutmeg, cloves, and the regenerative agricultural practices that helped them thrive.

The Calendar That Connects Half a Continent

While much of the world rang in the New Year four months ago, a billion…

The Death (and Return) of the Rijsttafel

For centuries, Rijsttafel sat at the apex of the Indonesian food hierarchy. Certainly, as far…

The Mystery of Venezuelan Cocoa – Part 1

The world’s best cocoa comes from a land that barely produces chocolate.

The Breadfruit Heist

Hollywood’s romanticized epic of colonial misadventure isn’t the full story. We dig deep to find out what the mutiny on the HMS Bounty was really about.

Can you love your coloniser?

Can you love your coloniser? The pain inflicted by colonialism can’t really be enumerated. In…

Dreaming of a Tropical Christmas

Much of the world has been sold a very specific version of Christmas: snowy lanes,…