We sent London-based contributing editor Malika Dalamal, a woman who loves to eat but doesnt know how to cook, to the English countryside on a mission. Could she learn to cook from one of Englands best chefs?HAMPSHIRE, England – Let me start by confessing that my cooking extends as far as quinoa salad and chocolate chip cookies (from a mix). So you understand why I panicked at the suggestion of trying out the new cooking class at Lime

As the founder and director of New York City Wine and Food Festival and South Beach Wine and Food Festival, when Lee Schrager travels for business, its always with a lot of pleasure at the table. (Weve shared many suppers with him and can totally vouch for this.) We asked him to sift through his long, long list of unforgettable meals to compile a Fathom Little Black Book of the best restaurants in the world, according to Lee.THE GLOBE

Chef Rene De Leon shares a recipe from Le Sel, his new French restaurant in Nashville.My recipe was inspired by a picture in Thomas Kellers Ad Hoc at Home cookbook. It was of a simple salad of asparagus, ham, and a poached egg. Its the type of dish that I think cooks really enjoy — very simple yet extremely satisfying. Le Sels version has a roasted leek in place of the asparagus and Bentons ham, a beloved local product.LEEKS WITH POAC

You can buy almost anything on the Internet these days. Except, incredibly enough, traditional Japanese snacks. The Senbei rice crackers, Tokyo bananas, and the limited-edition Kit Kat flavors you see all over Instagram are nearly impossible to find online, and rarer still in shops in the United States.Enter Snakku, a Japanese subscription service and one of our 13 Best Box Subscriptions for Travelers. The purveyor is taking Japans best sma

Were always telling you about great box services that deliver everything — the farmers market, the corner bar, the indie boutique — to your door. We decided it was time to do our own food box. After all, we have strong opinions about what we eat when we travel.So we partnered with our pals at Mouth, the Brooklyn-based indie food purveyor, to curate the Bon Voyage Bites box, a special collection of Fathom-approved, trav

Travel Loot is all about finding products (and the companies behind them) that inspire us to travel. Recently, we fell for Kettl, a contemporary tea company that operates out of New York City and has offices in Fukuoka, Japan. They sell high-quality wares and teas sourced directly from Japanese farms to high-end restaurants and stores in New York City and to everyone online. Fathom’s Becky Cheang and Daniel Schwartz visited co-founder

In anticipation of next weeks inagural NyamJam food and music festival, we asked Chris Blackwell, legendary music impresario and Jamaican hotel magnate, to tell us about the local food scene that inspired him to create the weekend event.JAMAICA – I grew up eating Jamaican food, having lived here most of my life, so it always reminds me of home. I truly miss it when I am away: There is nothing like the bold flavors and incredible seaso

Smoking bags from Texas. Handpicked heirloom herbs from Greece. Flavor-boosting charcoal from Japan. And coffee table cookbooks from all over the world. Spin the globe with twenty travel-inspired culinary treats thatll take you places. 

Wine is, if youll excuse the pun, an intoxicating reason to travel. Especially when its sipped and savored off the vine in the rolling countryside of Uruguay, a stones throw from some of the best beaches in South America.MALDONADO, Uruguay – I love wine. Specifically, I love drinking bold, red wines, which is probably why South America and I get along so well. A highlight of a recent trip to Uruguay was drinking really well at Alto de

Our contributing editor in Rome, Erica Firpo, has been carrying on a love affair with Milan for a while. Her latest flirty discovery is Bouecc, a old-fashioned restaurant that recently opened an unexpectedly fresh and casual dining room.MILAN – Te ghee loeucc pussee grand del boeucc. Thats Milanese dialect for Your eyes are bigger than your mouth.For me, my boeucc and my oeucc (bocca and occhi in formal Italian) are a complementary ta

MIAMI – Every February, when its snowy and slushy in the rest of the United States, its hot, sunny, and fun in Miami — but thats only one reason why the food world descends upon South Beach for the last weekend of the month.The main event happens February 24-28 at South Beach Wine and Food Festival, a five-day extravaganza of tastings, demos, dinners, and parties, parties, parties. (And more parties.) The turnout invariably incl

Fathom contributor Katie Parla teamed up with photographer Kristin Gill to publish Tasting Rome, a cookbook compilation of the most authentic and innovative Roman recipes. If you happen to be in the Eternal City, heres Parlas guide to shopping the best ingredients. For those who cant get to Rome, mouthwatering porchetta by Vito Bernabei is the next best thing. His family business, Il Norcino, in Marino Laziale just outside Rome, i

Fathom contributor Christine Chitnis recently authored Icy, Creamy, Healthy, Sweet, a health-conscious, lactose-sensitive recipe book of summery treats. We like the sound of frozen smoothie pops that taste like a beach day in the tropics.When it comes to getting my daily greens, Ill try just about anything. I love big, crunchy, straight-from-the-garden salads, but I also love blending produce for smoothies. Sweet, creamy, and refreshing, a

The New York Pizza Project is an online compendium and coffee table book documenting old-school pizzerias and the dough-slingers, slice fiends, and neon signage that make them so special. And it calls the most appropriate group of guys its founders — five ordinary New Yorkers who simply love pizza. Fathoms Daniel Schwartz sat down with two of them, Gabe Zimmer and Nick Johnson, at Phils Pizza in New Yorks West Village, to talk about t

If youre looking for us at lunchtime, theres a good chance were waiting in line for a sandwich at Num Pang. Co-founders Ratha Chaupoly and Ben Daitz just authored Num Pang, a cookbook of Cambodian-influenced recipes from their fast-casual NYC eatery. They share the secrets behind one of our favorite sandwiches, so we can get our fix even after the shop closes.The peppercorn catfish num pang has become one of Num Pangs most popular sandwiche

After twelve months of careful planning, Johannes Riffelmacher and Thomas Kosikowski hit the road for a year-long sojourn with a single mission: to find the best waves and meals in Central America and turn them into a travel-surf cookbook. Salt & Silver is a compilation of the duos photographs, experiences, and favorite recipes that take readers on a journey from Cuba all the way down to the southern tip of Chile. On our way to the ocean ne

One of our favorite ways to start a summer evening is with an Aperol spritz in hand. Tarallucci e Vinos beverage director, Lorenzo Baricca, introduces us to his new take on the classic Italian cocktail. As a native of Emilia-Romagna, I grew up drinking Lambrusco. At Tarallucci e Vino in New York City, I thought it might be a nice idea to riff on the Aperol spritz with my native beverage. After several attempts, I found that C

Helene Henderson, the Swedish-born owner and chef of Malibu Farm Pier Cafe, opened her farm-to-table restaurant when the dinners she served on her two-acre farm outgrew their intimate setting. The former pop-up cafe is now a permanent staple of the Malibu food scene. We asked her to share a recipe from her new Malibu Farm Cookbook: Recipes from the California Coast.MALIBU, California – We usually serve Malibu granola at the

Even New York cant get enough of the LA phenomena that is Moon Juice. The wellness brand is adored for its detoxifying and energizing juices, adaptogenic ingredients, and bioactive mineral-rich moon dusts. This fall, Moon Juice founder Amanda Chantal Bacon released The Moon Juice Cookbook, a collection of recipes for her most popular healing beverages and provisions — a quick fix for achieving optimal wellness when you cant swing a tr

Fathom readers know that we like nothing more than inspiring people to travel. Which is why we love putting together amazing trip giveaways. (Yes, someone really does win them, and everyone always has a great time.)But this season, weve outdone ourselves. Along with our pals at Tasting Table, weve launched Dine Deliciously Around the World, a mega giveaway to ten hot spots, including Barcelona.ENTER TO WIN A TRIP TO BARCELONAAll it takes is