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Where to Find the World’s Best Soup

Where to Find the World’s Best Soup

Soup is a universal comfort food—here are 12 of the best places on Earth to have a bowl.

By Holyn Thigpen
The special Coot is not for feeble appetites.
Bled Island potica
A runny-yolked egg is the crowing glory to a ham-and-cheese pancake.
Amicar Hernandez and Paulina Rovilla wanted to properly celebrate these humble legumes.

Where to Bring Home the Bacon

Go hog wild at these pork-packed places.


How La Mexicana Became a Kissimmee Institution


Pedro Rodriguez Is on a Quest for Freshness

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Places to Eat & Drink

Palmer, Massachusetts
Steaming Tender Restaurant

This former abandoned train station converted into a restaurant and small museum is a delight for both casual diners and rail enthusiasts alike.

Tiptree Jam Museum entrance.
Tiptree, England
Tiptree Jam Museum

As the Royal Family's jam supplier, this museum displays relics from the two world wars, farm equipment, a four legged chick, and other curiosities.

The Reading Room blends the intimacy of an inviting bar with the inviting solace of a good bookstore.
Chattanooga, Tennessee
The Reading Room

The shelves at this Chattanooga bar are stocked with used books, and buying one sends money back to the library.

Building
Woodside, California
The Mountain House

Nestled among towering redwoods on Skyline Boulevard, the Mountain House combines over a century of California history with a warm, rustic atmosphere that makes every meal feel like a getaway.

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Food & Drink

Sweets
Leigh’s Favorite Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

This AO user’s cookies come with a kick.

Sweets
Joan’s Crunchy Strawberry Shortcakes

An AO user’s tried and true recipe.

An Aglamesis nectar soda.
Drinks
Nectar Soda

This pretty pink drink is a Cincinnati specialty.

Drinks
Tiquira

This violet-hued liquor is Brazil's oldest spirit.

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Sherman holds a bowl of pápa waháŋpi, a soup that “just connected to my soul.”
On 'Turtle Island,' Indigenous Food Is Not the Past—It’s the Future

Chef Sean Sherman discusses reclaiming Native foodways, dismantling colonial borders, and why his latest cookbook looks forward rather than back.

By Sam O'Brien
The transformation to ice cream is complete.
Kitchen Dispatch: A Quest to Create the Perfect Pawpaw Ice Cream

The wild-growing fruit is best found through foraging, and custard turned out to be the key ingredient.

By Sam O'Brien
The baking of salt-rising bread traces back to Appalachia at the turn of the 19th century
Kitchen Dispatch: The Bread That Almost Broke Me

A salt-rising saga fraught with stinky starters and a surprise ingredient that rose to the occasion.

By Sam O'Brien
Green plantains are more starchy than sweet.
The Surprising Culinary History of a Humble Puerto Rican Favorite

Trifongo is an amalgam of influences from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

In Partnership With Experience Kissimmee
Arepas cooked on a fire in Venezuela.
The ‘Curvy Queen’ of Venezuelan Cuisine

Named after a beauty pageant winner, this deceptively simple dish is a national favorite.

In Partnership With Experience Kissimmee
Brightly colored auyama squash gives sancocho its signature color.
A Dominican Stew That Feeds a Crowd, and Needs One

If you want to make sancocho, you’ll want to find a big pot and a lot of helping hands.

In Partnership With Experience Kissimmee
From top: a Cuban-inflected take on arancini; cerdo asado; and arroz frito.
This Chef Is Redefining Cuban Comfort Food From a Kissimmee Food Truck

Amanda Melendez and her partner Claudia Mena built their following with a showstopper seven-hour pork dish.

In Partnership With Experience Kissimmee

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