Cover story · Issue №.01
Paris.
Paris is the city most foreigners eat in wrong. The tourist version (long lunch at a brasserie with a menu in five languages) exists for a reason: people pay for it.…
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In this issue
20 cities, food-first
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Paris.
01Paris
FranceParis is the city most foreigners eat in wrong.
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Rome.
02Rome
ItalyRome's food is unfussy.
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Tokyo.
03Tokyo
JapanTokyo eats like nowhere else.
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Bangkok.
04Bangkok
ThailandBangkok is one of the great food cities full stop, and the reason is the same reason the traffic is bad: nobody cooks at home.
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Barcelona.
05Barcelona
SpainBarcelona is two cities that eat differently.
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Istanbul.
06Istanbul
TurkeyIstanbul's food is the inheritance of an imperial cuisine that fed a capital where Asia, Europe, and the Middle East met.
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Lisbon.
07Lisbon
PortugalLisbon's food is the cuisine of a maritime empire that ran out of money and never globalized its recipes.
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Mexico City.
08Mexico City
MexicoMexico City is one of the most underrated food cities in the world for the simple reason that most outsiders don't realize how varied and how serious the cuisine is.
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New York.
09New York
United StatesNew York's food is fragmented the way the city is fragmented.
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Florence.
10Florence
ItalyFlorence is the food capital of Tuscany, which is to say it is a regional capital that also happened to be the cradle of the Renaissance.
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London.
11London
United KingdomLondon was, for a long time, the joke European capital for food.
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Marrakech.
12Marrakech
MoroccoMarrakech is the food city of a country that doesn't have a restaurant tradition in the Western sense.
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Naples.
13Naples
ItalyNaples invented pizza.
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Bologna.
14Bologna
ItalyBologna is the food capital of Emilia-Romagna, the Italian region that gave the world parmigiano-reggiano, prosciutto di Parma, balsamic vinegar from Modena, and the world's best fresh pasta.
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Kyoto.
15Kyoto
JapanKyoto is where Japan's old food culture survives in working form.
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Madrid.
16Madrid
SpainMadrid eats later than any other capital in Europe and tapas its way through the early evening before sitting down to dinner at 22:00.
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New Orleans.
17New Orleans
United StatesNew Orleans is the only American city where the local cuisine is its own distinct tradition, not a regional variant of something else.
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Osaka.
18Osaka
JapanOsaka eats louder than Tokyo.
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San Sebastian.
19San Sebastian
SpainSan Sebastián is a small Basque city on the Atlantic coast that punches multiple weight classes above its size.
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Porto.
20Porto
PortugalPorto is the rougher, older sibling of Lisbon.
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A short note from the editor
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