Eat ScrappleScrapple is a firm loaf made by simmering pork trimmings, combining the meat and broth with maize meal or another grain, then seasoning and chilling the mixture before slicing it.…
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Eat ScrappleScrapple is a firm loaf made by simmering pork trimmings, combining the meat and broth with maize meal or another grain, then seasoning and chilling the mixture before slicing it.…
Eat Sea SlugOn many menus, ‘sea slug’ refers to sea cucumber: an echinoderm prized in several East and Southeast Asian cuisines, not the soft garden-slug lookalike the nickname suggests. Prep…
Eat Sea UrchinLift a spoonful of sea urchin roe and expect sweetness, salt and a custard-like texture rather than the crunch suggested by the animal’s spines. Good uni tastes of clean seawater…
Eat shark in IcelandOpen the container, meet the sharp ammonia smell and spear one small cube. In Iceland, hákarl is Greenland shark cured through fermentation and drying, turning meat that is unsafe…
Eat Smørrebrød in DenmarkSmørrebrød is Denmark’s open-faced sandwich tradition: a base of bread—often dense rye rugbrød—constructed with fish, meat, egg, cheese or vegetables and finished with carefully c…
Eat Southern BBQ in the SouthSouthern barbecue is not one recipe spread across the American South. Eastern North Carolina whole hog with peppered vinegar, South Carolina mustard sauce, Memphis pork ribs and T…
Eat squid guts“Squid guts” usually refers to shiokara, a Japanese preparation in which small pieces of squid are fermented with salted viscera. It is intensely savoury, salty and marine, with a…
Eat SquirrelSquirrel is a lean, fine-textured game meat used in traditional British and North American pies, stews and slow-cooked dishes. The small joints offer little margin for hurried coo…
Eat stagTry venison from an adult male deer and experience a meat that is typically leaner and more strongly flavoured than beef. Depending on the cut and how it is prepared, stag can be…
Eat SushiStart with rice. Good sushi is built around seasoned shari whose warmth, acidity and texture frame the fish, egg or vegetables placed above it. At a counter, the chef’s small adju…
Eat sushi at the Tsukijus Fish Market in Tokyo, JapanTsukiji’s wholesale inner market moved to Toyosu in 2018, but the Tsukiji Outer Market remains a dense food district of specialist shops and restaurants. Eating sushi here means c…
Eat sweetbreadsSweetbreads are neither sweet nor bread. They are culinary offal — usually the thymus, and sometimes pancreas, of a young calf or lamb — with a mild flavour and a texture that can…
Eat TarantulaFried tarantula is associated particularly with Skuon in Cambodia, where a cooked spider may be seasoned with salt, sugar, garlic or chilli and eaten for its crisp legs and softer…
Eat testiclesAnimal testicles appear in several food traditions, often under names such as fries, oysters or criadillas. They may be sliced and fried, grilled, stewed or served as part of an o…
Eat tripeGive tripe enough time and it changes from something confronting into something built for sauce. Honeycomb, blanket and book tripe come from different parts of a ruminant stomach,…
Eat trufflesFresh culinary truffles are underground fruiting bodies of particular fungi, valued for an aroma that can suggest woodland, garlic, earth, honey or musk depending on species and m…
Eat turbotTurbot is a broad, thick flatfish with firm white flesh, large flakes and natural gelatine around the bones. Roasted whole, grilled over charcoal or cooked as a substantial on-the…
Eat Ugli FruitUGLI is a Jamaican trade name used for a type of tangelo: a loose-skinned citrus associated with mandarin, grapefruit and orange ancestry. Its wrinkled greenish-yellow rind may lo…
Eat wallabyWallaby is a very lean red meat available in limited Australian food traditions and regulated wildlife supply chains, most notably in Tasmania. It may be served as a quickly cooke…
Eat Wild BoarWild boar is darker and often leaner than ordinary pork, with a robust flavour suited to slow ragù, stew, sausages and carefully roasted joints. Age, diet and cut make a substanti…
Eat woodcockWoodcock is a small migratory game bird with dark, richly flavoured meat and a long place in British and French cooking. It may be roasted whole and served on toast, sometimes wit…
Eat Worm CakesCut into an ordinary-looking chocolate cake, then tell everyone what supplied part of the protein. Worm cakes use food-grade mealworms, usually roasted whole or ground into flour,…
Eat YakYak meat is a lean, dark red food of high-altitude regions across the Tibetan Plateau, Himalayas and parts of Central Asia. It can be dried, minced into momo dumplings, simmered i…
Eat Your Way Through Mexico's Street-Food SceneA tortilla hits the hot comal, salsa is spooned from a row of bowls and a few metres of pavement become a tiny dining room. Mexico's street food makes technique, regional history…
Electric Run, UtahAn Electric Run turns a night-time 5K into a moving light show: fluorescent clothing, illuminated course features, music and a crowd more interested in shared spectacle than a per…
Eliminate Junk MailEliminating junk mail is less a single unsubscribe than a short household system. Addressed advertising, unaddressed Royal Mail leaflets, locally delivered menus and post for form…
Encounter the Galápagos Islands ResponsiblyIn the Galápagos, sea lions sleep across paths, marine iguanas gather on black lava and birds behave as though people are only another passing species. The closeness is remarkable…
Enjoy a Swim-Up Bar Without Compromising Pool SafetyA swim-up bar turns the boundary between pool and terrace into part of the holiday: water at the counter, conversation drifting between stools and a cold drink arriving without th…
Enter a Beginner Ballroom and Latin CompetitionA beginner ballroom and Latin competition turns lessons into a defined challenge: prepare selected dances, enter the correct category and perform while adjudicators and other coup…
Enter Art in an ExhibitSubmitting work to an exhibition turns private making into a clear public proposition. The useful challenge is not merely being selected: it is choosing a piece, documenting it ac…
Enter Capri’s Blue Grotto by Authorised RowboatThe entrance is so low that passengers lie back as the rowboat slips beneath the rock. Inside, sunlight passes through the submerged opening and turns the water an electric blue,…
Enter Something in a Food CompetitionA village-show cake, a jar of chutney, a loaf, home-grown vegetables or a carefully plated dish can turn familiar kitchen work into a precise public challenge. Competition rules c…
Entertain the Elderly at a Nursing HomeMusic, storytelling, comedy, crafts or a themed quiz can bring welcome variety to a care-home afternoon when residents have helped shape the plan. The people watching are adults w…
Experience a full day of darkness in a northern countryDuring polar night, the sun remains below the horizon for at least a full day at sufficiently high latitude. That does not always mean twenty-four hours of blackness: blue twiligh…
Experience a full day of daylight in a northern countryAbove the Arctic Circle in summer, the sun can remain above the horizon through midnight and into the next day. Shadows lengthen, colours warm and then the light begins rising aga…
Experience a New ReligionExperiencing a religion new to you can replace assumptions with a real encounter—with people, worship, ethics, art and community life. The purpose need not be conversion, agreemen…
Experience a Show Inside Sphere Las VegasInside Sphere, the screen does not sit at the end of the room; it curves overhead until image, sound and audience occupy the same enormous space. A concert or film can make the bu…
Experience a traditional Japanese onsen (hot spring)A Japanese onsen is a bath using natural geothermal water, often within a public bathhouse, mountain town or ryokan inn. Mineral scent, hot water, steam and a view of stone, fores…
Experience All 50 US StatesA map of fifty states looks tidy until it becomes fifty different arrivals: a train platform, desert road, island harbour, neighbourhood diner or trail beneath an unfamiliar sky.…
Experience Amish CountryExperiencing Amish Country can combine farmland, markets, craft businesses and interpretation of a living Anabaptist religious tradition. Lancaster County in Pennsylvania is the b…
Experience Belize’s Great Blue Hole SafelyFrom above, Belize’s Great Blue Hole is a near-perfect dark circle cut into pale reef. At water level the geometry disappears, replaced by open sea, a rim of coral and the knowled…
Experience Ibiza Beyond the NightlifeIbiza changes character with the hour. Morning light falls across quiet coves and whitewashed villages; later, the old town fills with footsteps and music begins to travel across…
Experience Iguazu Falls from Argentina and BrazilIguazu is not one waterfall but a landscape made of water. From the Argentine walkways, individual cascades appear between trees until the river seems to break open at the Devil's…
Experience Lake Bled Beyond the Postcard ViewLake Bled’s island church, cliff-top castle and mountain backdrop make an instantly recognisable picture. Walk the shore, though, and the lake changes with every bend: rowing boat…
Experience Marrakech Beyond the SouksAs evening settles over Jemaa el-Fnaa, smoke rises from food stalls, storytellers gather circles and the medina lanes shift from hard sunlight to lamplight. Marrakech is intense a…
Experience New Zealand’s FiordlandIn Fiordland, rain does not hide the landscape so much as animate it: waterfalls appear on dark cliffs, cloud drifts through beech forest and boats look very small beneath the wal…
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Experience Samoa with Respect for Fa‘a SamoaSamoa’s volcanic islands bring together forest, reef, waterfalls and villages whose daily life is shaped by fa‘a Samoa, the Samoan way. The journey becomes richer when the landsca…
Experience the Autumn Foliage in New EnglandNew England’s autumn foliage spreads through six states in changing bands of maple red, birch gold and evergreen, rather than switching on everywhere at once. The richest experien…
Experience the Brazilian Amazon ResponsiblyThe Brazilian Amazon begins before any wildlife sighting: in the scale of the rivers, the changing sound of the forest and the knowledge that whole communities have built lives ar…
Experience the Eiffel Tower in ParisThe Eiffel Tower is familiar long before you reach Paris, yet its scale is difficult to borrow from photographs. Up close, the ironwork becomes intricate; above the city, streets…