Do This Trip In 1925, two literary icons take a wild goose chase across the French countryside. They miss their meet-up. They dodge rain in a topless car. They drink too much wine. One even swears he’s dying. And yet this drive from Lyon to Paris by Ernest Hemingway and F Scott Fitzgerald clearly marks a Great French Road Trip. You should follow them. (Especially if you like chicken.) Ernest…

Cute Animals Cats. We all like cats. We know about tigers and lions and jaguars and leopards. The lynx? It's a bit more elusive. Yet seen once, and the lynx is not easily forgotten. “If only our earsShouted 'majesty' like yoursWe’d chase rabbit, too” Haiku for the Iberian Lynx It’s the ears. They’re simply triumphant, almost royal in scope, tufting skyward in pure pomp. More so for the Iberian lynx.…

Eat This Now Cuisine is more than just food. It is an edible history and a reflection of the place that a culture calls home. Native American cuisine is as nuanced as the 500-plus federally recognized tribes in the United States. Native American cuisine? It’s all about cooking methods and dishes shaped by landscapes and available resources: for example, salmon for tribes of the Pacific Northwest and bison for tribes…

When Home Morphs Into Space For many travelers and digital nomads, the notion of “home” becomes a moving target. Sometimes, according to Nigerian writer Lola Akinmade Åkerström, it just requires the perfect cut of goat meat. “Is this the right cut?” My Swedish husband has sent a third photo of nondescript, boney meat from his mission – to find me goat meat in Stockholm. The goat has to be the…

Localview: Nairobi Most articles we read on Kenya are done by outsiders. So we asked Lawrence Moindi, an aspiring writer we met a few years ago, to explore his home, Nairobi... like a tourist. He found some things he never knew about. And one thing nearly all visitors miss. Traditionally not many Kenyans ever see much of our beautiful country. But five years ago, the country launched Tembea Kenya, which means…