“Together, they raise their hands in the air and embark on a Viking thunderclap. They start slow, then build up speed, until the two groups are applauding each other. The sound echoes around the stadium and out across the Maidan, a verdant patchwork of pitches right in the heart of Kolkata that serves, as well as anywhere, as the spiritual home of Indian football.”
NYT/The Athletic
“Across the harbor from the open-air Fagatogo market, where local Samoans sell breadfruit, taro, and coconuts from backyard plantations, a Starkist tuna processing plant—the single largest employer on the island—hums with activity.”
Gastro Obscura
“Skid row is largely represented in the media as the epicenter of Los Angeles County’s homelessness epidemic, because it is. But it’s also a bonafide neighborhood of around 5,000 Angelenos. Much like any other neighborhood, its denizens get up every day and go in search of a morning cup of coffee, a Cuban sandwich at lunch, or shaved ice on a hot afternoon.”
LA Taco
The cashier gives a knowing smile and pulls a heaping ladle of oxtails from a steam tray, broth slick with rendered beef fat glistening in the slot machine lights. Oxtail soup: a dish so hearty it could drown any gambling sorrows. But it’s well made, too, with hints of warm spices and perfectly braised meat that escapes every nook and cranny of the bone. You know those meals that make you feel like you’ve been let in on a little secret?”
Fodor’s
“Morgan Ditmars stands on a milk crate at the empty steam table inside the Preble Street kitchen, flanked by six boxes of assorted pancake mixes and two eight-quart containers of liquid eggs, milk, and slicks of vegetable oil. “I’m going to add some nuts and cranberries. I find a lot of use for canned cherry pie filling. I’m always going for anti-bland.”