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Minneapolis, Minnesota

Owamni

The dishes at this restaurant by The Sioux Chef celebrate indigenous heritage.
Chin Foin and his wife, Yokelund Wong.
restaurants

The Debonair Restaurateur Who Inspired the First Chinese-American Cookbook

Chin Foin forever changed America's relationship with Chinese food.
Diana Hubbell November 10, 2021
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food

Flavor Trip With the New Gastro Obscura Box

Try miracle berries, canned bread, and more.
Rachel Rummel November 10, 2021
Culinary historian Michael Twitty (left) and interpreter Robert Watson pick case-knife beans by torch light at the Sankofa Heritage Garden.
gardens

At Colonial Williamsburg, a 'Landscape of Resistance' Is Thriving Once Again

The gardens of enslaved people left a lasting legacy across the American South.
Omnia Saed November 9, 2021
Cream of fiddlehead and broccoli soup.
Ohsweken, Ontario

Yawékon by Chef Tawnya Brant

This Haudenosaunee restaurant is a delicious tribute to indigenous cuisine.
A lumpy dumb cake on its way to be baked.
food

The Historical Halloween Cake That Reveals Your Future Spouse

Can a "dumb cake" help you discover your fate?
Anne Ewbank November 6, 2021
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An Indian taco on frybread.
Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Watecha Bowl

Chef Lawrence West serves up Indian tacos, wojapi, and other Lakota dishes at the brick-and-mortar incarnation of his popular food truck.
An Apatani family and guests make tapyo around the hearth.
food

Without a Source for Salt, This Tribe Created a Delicious Substitute

The Apatani make tapyo from shrubs and ash.
Lavina Dsouza November 3, 2021
This Xi'an temple ginkgo is more than a thousand years old.
trees

How to Forage From the World's Oldest Tree

These "living fossils" are everywhere; their nuts are delicious.
Anne Ewbank November 1, 2021
food

The Stories Behind 'A Taste of Gastro Obscura'

Feed your curiosity.
Atlas Obscura November 1, 2021
Walvis Bay, Namibia

The Raft

Hitch a boat ride to dine on stilts while watching wildlife.
This ghoulish image of a skull-faced candymaker was a direct response to the Bradford poisonings.
poison

How Tainted Treats Led to a Halloween Tragedy in 1858

A poisoned batch of peppermints devastated an English town.
Jenny Elliott October 29, 2021
Assorted people pot pie facial features.
food

The Macabre Art of Baking ‘People Pot Pies’

Crafting skin and flesh from the sweet and tasty.
Leigh Chavez-Bush October 28, 2021
Hoswick's cake shelter (Emma's Cake Corner).
Bixter, Scotland

Shetland Cake Fridges and Honesty Boxes

Across the islands, baked goods, sauces, and much more are for sale 24/7.
Bobbing for apples in the early 1900s.
food

Halloween Used to Be a Lot More Romantic

The food rituals of All Hallows' Eve once predicted marriages and summoned spouses.
Anne Ewbank October 26, 2021
The gruesome concoctions definitely caused more harm than good.
skulls

Europeans Once Drank Distilled Human Skulls as Medicine

"Corpse medicine" created a booming market for craniums, especially mossy ones.
Diana Hubbell October 22, 2021
A witch cake from the village of Bempton, which collector William Clarke dated to 1850.
objects of intrigue

Remembering ‘Witch Cakes,’ the Evil-Fighting Baked Goods of the 1600s

Are these cakes weapons against dark forces or just “spiky bagels”?
Sam O'Brien October 21, 2021
Williamsburg, Virginia

The King’s Arms Tavern

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.