Brent Crane
This Malaysian City Is the Food Cart Mecca You've Never Heard Of
In George Town—where Indian, Hokkien Chinese, Hakka, Cantonese, Malay, and everything in between clash in a beautiful culinary supernova—it is hard to find a bad meal.
I Ate Dinner at Cambodia's Infamous Snake House
I traveled to Sihanoukville, a shady coastal city near the Vietnamese border with a reputation for abundant meth and persistent prostitutes, to eat in a restaurant full of deadly snakes owned by a Russian oligarch.
Portland's Biggest Whiskey Bar Wants You to Play with Your Food
At the Multnomah Whiskey Library in Portland, you'll find everything from affordable bourbons to single-malts that run you nearly $1,800 a shot. You'll also find a menu designed by a noma-trained chef who thinks that good food makes great whiskey even...
This Portland Restaurant Wants to Remake Iraq's Image
Portland's Dar Salam isn't your run-of-the-mill Middle Eastern restaurant. Owner Ghaith Sahib, who survived a car bomb in Baghdad in 2005, and his American wife have made it their mission to rehabilitate Iraq in the American mind through their food.
This Ex-Vegetarian Is Teaching Portland How to Cut Up Cows
If the vegetarian argument won’t be bought by everybody, shouldn’t we educate people on eating sustainable and locally sourced meat? That’s the philosophy of Portland butchery school founder Camas Davis.
How Portland’s Thai Food Queen Turned a Cart from Craigslist into an Empire
Nong Poonsukwattana found her first food cart in 2009 off an anonymous Craigslist ad. Today, her burgeoning food empire is a Portland staple. But it is hard to believe that all of that buzz comes from just one dish: chicken and rice.
This San Francisco Peanut Milk Might Actually Save the World
State Bird Provisions is so popular that hungry techies once allegedly hacked the reservation system to make sure they’d get seats. At the end of a fantastic meal there, you'll understand why when you sip the restaurant's expertly calibrated peanut...
San Francisco Is an Urban Winemaking Heaven
Urban winemaking is just what it sounds like: making wine in a city, not the country. Yet for some reason, the idea that wine can be made in the same space as an office building confounds people. But around the country in cities like San Francisco...
I Went to a Marijuana Tupperware Party
I recently found myself at a get-together thrown by Synchronicity, a group of female weed enthusiasts who think the cannabis industry needs more estrogen.
Twenty Years Later, the Tokyo Subway Gas Attacks Still Scar Japan
The "Aum Affair," as it is known in Japan, terrified the country and continues to reverberate two decades after cult members attacked the Tokyo subway system with sarin.
How a Rock Musician from China Brought Uyghur Food to Boston
After years playing in one of China’s biggest rock bands, Payzulla Polat came to America to study music and serve up the cuisine of his forefathers—the embattled Uyghurs of northwest China.
Indonesia's War on Women
"Virginity tests" are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Indonesia's strange, and often terrifyingly restrictive, policies governing women's behavior.