How to Host a Dinner Party That People Remember
The dinner parties people remember are never about the food alone.
Sebastian Cole · 2025-02-19
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The Case for Cooking Without Recipes
Recipes are training wheels.
James Alderton · 2025-02-19
A Weekend in Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik earns every superlative written about it.
Oliver Ramsey · 2025-02-18
A Weekend in Cartagena
Cartagena de Indias sits on Colombia's Caribbean coast like a fever dream in coral stone.
Catherine Avery · 2025-02-18
A Weekend in Montreal
Montreal is the city where North America's French and English identities collide, negotiate, and produce something entirely original.
Thomas Nakamura · 2025-02-17
A Weekend in San Sebastián
San Sebastián — Donostia in Basque — may be the finest eating city on earth per capita.
Oliver Ramsey · 2025-02-17
A Weekend in Vienna
Vienna was the capital of an empire that no longer exists, and this fact permeates everything — the scale of the Ringstrasse, the formality of the coffeehouses, the reverence for classical music that treats Beethoven and Schubert as living presences rather than historical figures.
Catherine Avery · 2025-02-16
A Weekend in Savannah
Savannah is America's most walkable exercise in urban planning, a city laid out in 1733 by General James Oglethorpe around twenty-two garden squares that function as communal living rooms beneath canopies of live oak and Spanish moss.
Marcus Wei · 2025-02-16
A Weekend in Charleston
Charleston, South Carolina, carries its history in every cobblestone and column.
James Alderton · 2025-02-15
A Weekend in Porto
Porto is Lisbon's grittier, more soulful sibling — a granite city tumbling down the Douro River gorge with a defiant beauty that owes nothing to polish.
Catherine Avery · 2025-02-15
A Weekend in Marrakech
Marrakech overwhelms by design.
Marcus Wei · 2025-02-14
A Weekend in Bruges
Bruges is the medieval city that Belgium preserved in amber.
Sebastian Cole · 2025-02-14
A Weekend in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is a city that starts late, eats later, and dances until dawn.
Sebastian Cole · 2025-02-13
A Weekend in Edinburgh
Edinburgh is two cities stacked on top of each other.
Sebastian Cole · 2025-02-13
A Weekend in Lisbon
Lisbon announces itself through light.
Oliver Ramsey · 2025-02-12
A Weekend in Copenhagen
Copenhagen has spent the last two decades transforming from a charming but quiet Scandinavian capital into one of Europe's most exciting cities for food, design, and architecture.
Thomas Nakamura · 2025-02-12
The Knife Skills Every Man Should Know
A sharp knife in trained hands is the most efficient tool in any kitchen — faster than any food processor for most tasks and infinitely more precise.
Marcus Wei · 2025-02-11
A Weekend in Kyoto
Kyoto rewards the visitor who slows down.
Sebastian Cole · 2025-02-11
The Olive Oil Grades Every Man Should Know
Walk into any well-stocked grocery store and you will face a wall of olive oil bottles bearing terms like extra virgin, virgin, pure, and light — labels that seem designed to confuse rather than clarify.
James Alderton · 2025-02-10
The Pasta Shapes Every Man Should Know
The Italian insistence that specific pasta shapes pair with specific sauces is not pretension — it is engineering.
William Ashford · 2025-02-10