Pull up a chair.

The menu

Monday, October 5

To start

• Recipes111 cards From twenty-five cuisines, each with the tale of who first stirred the pot.
• Spice Mélange79 jars Lift any lid for the dated road it travelled to your rack.

The main event

• Reviews108 in 14 cities Brunch, dinner, bars and cafés, scored in cymbals and never above four and a half.
• Speakeasies280 doors The unmarked entrance, and what to order once you are through it.
• Wine55 regions Type the name off a label and see where it grew and who has made it longest.
• Coffee38 origins From Ethiopian forest to roastery drum, with the bean's altitude, harvest and variety.
• Spirits75 places Five pours mapped to the river, island or glen that made them.

On the side

• Reading19 books What sugar, sleep and salt do to you, and the cookbooks that taught a generation.
• Screen22 titles Something to watch with a plate on your lap.
• Kitchen essentials22 tools What to check in the shop, and what to leave on the shelf.

To finish

• Stories16 reads Rituals, rivalries and the dishes people carried across borders.
• Grandma's jamsstill on the stove Pickles and preserves, put up slowly.
• Aboutone cook Who is holding the fork, and why a fruit and a root gave the place its name.

Today's specials

From the spice bazaar Cinnamon 1st century CE, Rome Open the jar From the cellar Draining Europe's wine lake Late 1970s to 1990s Walk through the vineyard Behind a door in Stockholm Melt Bar See every door in Stockholm

Fresh from the stove

All 111 recipes

Mechouia, a Tunisian Salad from the Embers

African, 30 mins

Makdous, the Eggplant and Tomato Truce

Middle Eastern, 30 mins

Tamr Hindi, Where Tamarind Meets the Date

Middle Eastern, 10 mins

Stories

All stories

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  How Migration Seasons the Local Kitchen

  Lifestyle

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  How Food Remembers When We Forget

  Lifestyle

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  Turkish and Greek Coffee, Two Small Cups of History

  Beverage Trivia

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  Campari or Aperol, Two Bitters at Sundown

  Beverage Trivia

Food photographs are from Fig & Ginger. Today's specials via Wikimedia Commons: Cinnamon by Simon A. Eugster (CC BY-SA 3.0); the vines by Ian Schneider (CC0); the bar by Sherlock: Escape Rooms (CC0).