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Best Restaurants In Mexico City
Where To Eat
Kristen Kellogg

The 9 Best Restaurants In Mexico City For Fine Dining (2024)

Here it is: our pick of the nine of the best restaurants in Mexico City for fine dining, including Contramar, Em, and La Docena. The Mexican capital is known for its street food; hello, la esquina del chilaquil, where you’ll find chilaquiles sandwiches drenched in salsa verde! But street food is just one slice of the culinary pie in the Ciudad

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What Is A Tamale?
Mexico
Ligaya Malones

What Is A Tamale? 7 Facts About Mexico’s Beloved Dish

The tamal is not only one of Mexico’s most important national dishes, it has also been around longer than the country itself. But what is a tamale and where does it hail from? Here we’re diving 7 facts about tamales including its history, types of tamales, and tips for making them at home.

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Maltagliati Pasta With Ricotta Salata Recipe
Recipes
Aida Mollenkamp

Maltagliati Pasta With Ricotta Salata

One of our all-time favorite summer dishes? This summery vegetarian pasta that’s by no means traditional but by all means delicious and loaded with all the best seasonal produce from corn to zucchini blossoms!

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Coca Mallorquina
Recipes
Ross Hutchison

Coca Mallorquina | Mallorcan Flatbread

Have you been to Southern Spain? If so, you’ve likely heard of Coca. No, it’s not a soft drink but a savory flatbread hailing from Mallorca. We’re recent transplants from New York (we moved here to start a private chef business) and it’s pretty much our favorite part of Mallorca (aside from the beaches, the people, and the history). At its best, a Coca is a crisp olive oil-dough topped with seasonal vegetables. So we want to share with you the Coca Mallorquina or Mallorcan Flatbread with Spring Vegetables recipe.

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California
Aida Mollenkamp

Mercado Olympic

It was one of those rare L.A. moments when the streets were empty as if everyone had overslept or just plain skipped town. It helped that I was racing through downtown L.A.’s Warehouse District, which is all but abandoned during the weekends — or so I thought. As I headed down Central Avenue toward Olympic, the area got busier and

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{Fiori Di Zucca Fritti} Classic Italian Fried Zucchini Flowers Recipe
Recipes
Aida Mollenkamp

Fiori Di Zucca Fritti | Classic Italian Fried Zucchini Flowers

Few places do fried food to the level of Rome. From the suppli, to the Animelle fritte (sweetbreads), and the Carciofi alla giudia (fried artichokes) to (our fave) fried zucchini blossoms, it’s hard to cross a menu that doesn’t have at least one thing fried. We’ve long stuffed zucchini blossoms with ricotta (blended with herbs and lemon zest) but this way, with mozzarella and anchovies, is bold and unapologetic, a lot like Rome. I can’t wait to be back in Rome, but in the meanwhile will remember it by making this {Fiori Di Zucca Fritti} Classic Italian Fried Zucchini Flowers recipe.

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