Index

Where to eat, what to do, how to be a better traveler around the world

Destination guides

Denmark

• How to Hygge

France

• How to walk through Provence

• An eater’s guide to Lyon

Georgia

• Why you should visit Eastern Europe

• How to be a better traveler in Georgia (and a 4-day itinerary)

Ghana

• Go to Ghana! But read this first (and a 10-day itinerary)

Greece

• An eater’s guide to Athens

• How to visit the Meteora Monasteries

Italy

• How to be a better traveler in Italy

• Be a better traveler in Venice

• Wine and travel lessons in Puglia

• Guide to Puglia

• Guide to the Aeolian Islands

• Destinations in Italy I can’t believe aren’t more visited

• Lido di Venezia

Jordan

• How to be a better traveler in Jordan (and a 5-day guide)

• How to spend 72 hours in Amman

Lebanon

• The best trip I took in 2020

Maldives

• Are the Maldives worth it?

Mexico

• Be a better traveler in Mexico City

• Mini guide to Los Cabos

• Tulum/Holbox

Netherlands

• How to spend a layover in Amsterdam

Spain

• San Sebastian guide from Marti Buckley, author of Basque Country

Tunisia

• `10 Days In Tunisia With a Baby

Turkey

• Be a better traveler in Turkey

• Guide to the Turkish coast

• Guide to Alaçatı

• An eater’s guide to Gaziantep

UAE

• Sharjah

United States

• Chicago summer top 10

• My favorite Chicago restaurants

• How to be a better traveler in Hawaii

• Mardi Gras in Louisiana

• A non-skiers guide to Jackson Hole in winter

• 40 hours in Austin

• Summer in the South

• A weekend in Jackson, Mississippi

• A mostly food guide to 48 hours in Door County

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Be a Better Traveler

• Why USAID matters for travel

• Should you move abroad? What to consider before taking the leap

• Should you fly on a Boeing plane?

• Be a better traveler in Europe this summer (2023)

• 17 ways to be a better traveler in 2023

• Why you shouldn’t trust Trip Advisor or Google reviews

• On going with the flow (and go with the flow part 2)

• Trips vs. Vacations

• When is travel worth the risk?

• Is it ethical to visit the South?

• What I learned from travel in 2022

• On living the age in your head

• Overtourism in Tulum

• How to take magazine worthy travel photos

• How voting impacts travel

• Be a better traveler tipping guide

• Why you should take food tours

• In defense of touristy places

• How to actually eat like a local

• The truth about female solo travel

• The most overused words in travel writing

• On Ukraine

• Destinations in Italy I can’t believe aren’t more visited

• What tour guides want you to know

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Travel Better With Kids

• Why travel with a baby?

• UPPAbaby Minu Travel Stroller Review

• Do babies born abroad get U.S. citizenship?

• 10 days in Tunisia with a baby

• Everything you need to know about flying RyanAir and Easy Jet with a baby

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Travel for the Food

• What to look for when purchasing olive oil

• The best sparkling water in the world

• Chicago-style hot dogs

• Wisconsin cheese is the best cheese

• Sugarcane in Louisiana

• Baklava in Gaziantep

• Çig Köfte

• Scovergi in Skokie

• How winemakers in Eastern Europe are being impacted by the war in Ukraine

• Khachapuri in Georgia

• Langos in Hungary

• My favorite Chicago restaurants

• Smørre­brød and æbleskiver in Denmark

• Little Kurdistan in Nashville

• An amazing food tour in Mexico City

• Maryland crab cakes and Thrasher’s fries

• Crawfish in Baton Rouge

• Louisiana shrimp aka the best in the world?

• Snoballs in New Orleans

• Royal Red shrimp in Biloxi

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Drinks

• Chicago sommeliers on what they’ll be drinking this NYE

• Christmas beer and glogg in Denmark

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Interviews

• Sapna Dalal of The Vegetarian Tourist

• Spotted by Locals

• Hisham Assad, author of the Bayrut cookbook

• Marti Buckley, author of Basque Country

• Kainoa Daines and Annie Daly on Hawaii travel

• Natalie de la Rosa on traveling in Mexico City

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Recipes

• Daoud Bacha, or meatballs and onions in tomato sauce - from Bayrut

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Random

• About me

• How do travel writers afford to travel?

• Crying during coronavirus

• The (hopeful) reshaping of food and travel media

• How to road trip safely this summer (during covid)

• Seneca was wrong

• Christmas in Louisiana