Food Heritage

Basque Cuisine & Cowboy Grub: Elko's Unexpected Culinary Adventures

As a physical therapist who's spent decades exploring therapeutic travel experiences, I've found that regional cuisine often provides the most authentic connection to a place's heritage and healing traditions. Nowhere exemplifies this better than Elko, Nevada – an unassuming high...

Flavors of Kandahar: A Culinary Journey Through Afghanistan's Food Heritage

Standing in the early morning light of Kandahar's central bazaar, the air thick with the scent of cardamom and woodsmoke, I found myself transported by sensory overload. Men in traditional turbans hustled past with carts of fresh pomegranates, their ruby...