Eat This Now When Unesco gave special heritage status to Mexican and French cuisines in 2010, Peru complained, “hey, what about us?” Some observers chuckled. But after chef Gastón Acurio won the biggest accolade in the world of gastronomy this summer, no one is laughing anymore. Even the casual observer of the foodie universe can’t have missed Peru’s meteoric rise of the last several years: the global proliferation of pisco…

Good Travel Award-winning Australian novelist and environmental writer, Jane Rawson, has strong feelings about travel. After spending more than a decade in travel publishing, she left the industry because of its growing and negative impact on the planet. A dozen years later, she’s changed her mind (somewhat). Over the last decade I’ve become more optimistic about the positive changes travel can make in our minds Jane Rawson Twelve years ago I…

Listicle Royale Mexico is simply a gift to the world. Honestly, no possible bucket is big enough to hold all the classic experiences that await in a land of so much and so many cultures, topographies and cuisines. But we made a "bucket list" anyway, to get you started, with 21 ways to fall in love with Mexico. Cities 1. Mexico City The story goes that the Aztecs saw a…

It's Not Where, It's How People love making bucket lists of iconic places they want to see. We have one to add—but it has nothing to do with where you go, it's about how you go. We asked solo travel expert Janice Waugh, founder of the Solo Travel Society, to explain what it all means. Is it true that women travel solo more frequently than men? Yes! Solo travel is travel…

Do This Now Gross National Happiness may have put the pristine Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan on the world map. But to get the most out of this true highlander nation means trekking. Some treks are epic once-in-a-lifetime adventures that take a week or more. But Erin Levi, who has made many Bhutan treks, shares four more accessible day-long rambles that access the best of Bhutanese culture, wildlife and beauty. You cross over…

Meat the World Elias Cairo needed fresh, homemade salami in Portland for a picnic. When there wasn't any to be found, he used all the skills he learned in a remote corner of the Swiss Alps, to create Olympia Provisions, one of the USA's greatest charcuteries. Now, Eli is traveling with us to all his old haunts in the Swiss Alps, so we asked him how all this meat-making got started.…

Q&A Dan Oberlatz lived in California until something bit him on a trip in Alaska: the wild. He became fascinated by seeing how far you can go into bush country. He moved deep in, with the goal not of getting off the beaten track, but of getting off any track. Modern Adventure is honored to travel with Dan this summer, on our upcoming Alaska Backcountry trip. We asked Dan a few questions about Alaska's…