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An Appetite To Explore Food Festivities With Beth Walrond

Did you know that eating apples during Xin Nian (Chinese New Year) is said to bring good wishes for peace, or that a parade is held in honor of Papà del Gnoco in Verona to celebrate Italian Carneva...

How Music Is Creating New Cultures Around Food

Background music has become ubiquitous and unavoidable. The debate has fuelled multiple perspectives on the purpose of music in restaurant culture: Do we need music at all? Where does the obsession...

Kitchens Are For More Than Feeding The Appetite

Mina Holland, Deputy Editor of Guardian Feast, beautifully articulates the role of our kitchens and how they are now symbolic spaces in the preface of Kitchen Living. From childhood culinary memori...

Read Donald Trump’s Prophecies Inside Fortune Cookies

When the frustration and reality of Donald Trump being President of America is constantly on your mind, you have no choice but to create a fortune cookie series to remind the world of his prophecie...

Discover the Tenants of New Nordic Cuisine in Nordic by Nature

There is a sense of resourcefulness and unconventional creativity at the backbone of Nordic cuisine. Meet the new generation of progressive chefs who are reworking old traditions in our new book No...

"We are Guilty of Having Messed up Chefs' Minds"

"Even worse than Mary Shelley, we have created a monster." Read our interview with Andrea Petrini on how he thinks The World's 50 Best is actually harming young chefs and how he wants to push cooki...

The Monocle Travel Guide to Beirut

Join us on a tour of this vivacious Mediterranean metropolis of Beirut brimming with delicious food, retail, and hospitality! There's are vibrant party scene in Lebanon's capital. Foodies will enjo...

Food and Wines

Taste test the series

Architectural Pastries and Cakes

Architecture is an art of measurements, and so is baking

Sex for Breakfast

Whoever said that you shouldn’t play with your food never met Paloma Rincón and Pablo Alfieri