Culinary Backstreets

4 min read 2022-03-11 14:00:50

Soup Dumplings

Any Shanghai denizen who has lived in the city for longer than a few months worships at the altar of xiǎolóngbāo (小笼包). These steamed buns

5 min read 2022-03-10 14:00:09

When Tanka Sapkota, originally from Nepal, arrived in Portugal 25 years ago, Lisbon was a very different city. There were no Nepalese restaurants and

7 min read 2022-03-08 14:00:49

These days, you can buy an Adjaruli khachapuri anywhere from a pizza chain in Bueno Aires to a grocery store in Tokyo. In Tbilisi, you can get this

6 min read 2022-03-07 14:00:19

Hidden between two well-trodden avenues – the busy Halaskargazi and the glitz and glam of Vali Konağı – Kuyumcu İrfan Sokak is a back street

6 min read 2022-03-04 14:00:34

Editor’s Note: In 2019, we were lucky enough to be able to interview author Caroline Eden about her travelogue and recipe book Black Sea, which

6 min read 2022-03-03 14:00:35

We spoke to Joe Yonan, the James Beard Award-winning food and dining editor of The Washington Post, about his cookbook, Cool Beans: The Ultimate

5 min read 2022-03-02 14:00:56

The first time we wandered over to Ridgewood, only our appetite carried us ahead. At ground level, the neighborhood seems unremarkable. It’s mostly

3 min read 2022-03-01 14:00:37

When El Chato, considered to be Barcelona’s oldest Basque restaurant, opened in 1941 in El Fort Pienc, the neighborhood was a decidedly industrial

5 min read 2022-02-27 14:00:16

It was Mardi Gras morning 2012, and my Hubig’s Pie was missing. On Lundi Gras (AKA “Fat Monday,” which has evolved to include traditions of its

5 min read 2022-02-25 14:00:06

Mention “Les Baumettes” to a Marseillais and many immediately think of the prison that shares the name. Since the 1940s, this peripheral

8 min read 2022-02-24 14:00:54

Based on NYC Media’s new food TV series, “Native Dish: United Flavors of NYC,” Culinary Backstreets brings you a behind-the-scenes look at

6 min read 2022-02-23 14:00:20

It was the summer of 2020, and walking into Fahri Konsolos felt like a mirage, like Brigadoon. There were whispers throughout Kadıköy about That

5 min read 2022-02-21 14:00:44

It’s not every day you see someone’s face peeking out of the belly of a bright blue skipjack bonito (katsuo). You certainly don’t expect them

5 min read 2022-02-18 14:00:11

In the spring of 2017, the Bywater Bakery opened its doors and became something of an “instant institution.” Part casual restaurant and part

9 min read 2022-02-17 14:01:50

Scan the back bar at the Erin Rose, and you’ll see a jumble of memorabilia that indicates a drinking hole that knows its lane. Layers of