Elsewhere

Tales from The Eaten Path as its writers travel to as many parts of the globe as they can afford.

In addition to residence columns from correspondents in Japan, Taiwan, China, Spain and Germany, explore these stories to read about food-focused trips to Budapest, Kosovo, Bangkok and other locales with serious appetites.

2012: The Meals That Were

by James Boo January 8, 2013

Happy Ongoing U.S. Congressional Failure Day New Year! In 2012, The Eaten Path entered its fifth year of food and travel. It’s hard to believe, but easy to stomach. As Zach and I work to push stories onto bigger pages – his into the Creative [...]

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Sugar Shack: A Documentary

by James Boo November 26, 2012

Back when I was eating my way across Montreal, I also made a two-day detour to a town called Rigaud, where I joined forces with the Goddamn Cobras Collective to put together a short documentary about a Quebecois “sugar shack” named Sucrerie de la Montagne. [...]

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I Will Find a City, Find Myself a City to Eat Chinese Food In

by James Boo September 26, 2012

I don’t understand Toronto. Having spent a week in the city, hosted warmly by friends and given ample room to explore, I can’t give Toronto a just summary in writing. I won’t say the same for New York, where I’ve lived for four years, or [...]

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Single Serving: 1/2 Chicken With Fries at Rotisserie Ramados

by James Boo July 18, 2012

In recalling the meals I enjoyed and didn’t enjoy over the course of two days in Montreal, two stretches of time struck me as most memorable: a late weeknight session in a charming, perfectly paced, technically-a-restaurant bar called Else’s, and a gut-checked devouring of chicken [...]

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Foie Gras for Lifers

by James Boo July 16, 2012

This is a lifer. In the 1978 documentary film Scared Straight!, this angry, one-eyed man – sentenced to “life and now on” for murder – shouted down a group of teenagers as part of a program aiming to prevent at-risk juveniles from becoming eternal inmates, [...]

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Gronlandic Edit (or Three Meals in Montreal)

by James Boo June 18, 2012

The moment our car rolled out of customs and onto U.S. soil, I turned on my phone and punched “craigslist” into the browser. Rifling through listings for summer sublets, I tucked our stay into a corner of memory where hindsight and foresight are blind spots. [...]

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Whether the Cherry Blossoms Are in Bloom

by Zach Mann March 9, 2012

I leaned my head against the Shinkansen window, snacking on train station fast food. Japan passed by at 300 kilometers per hour, while I counted golf ranges and Ferris wheels at an astonishing clip. Then the track doglegged, and there was Mount Fuji, emerging from [...]

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“It Belongs in a Museum!”

by Zach Mann February 27, 2012

The city of Yokohama boasts the second biggest population in Japan, but looking out the Shinkansen window, I never saw Tokyo end or Yokohama begin. The buildings lost their height and their charm, transforming more into suburbia with every stop. Meanwhile, uniformed men checked our [...]

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The Shikoku Mountain Blues

by Zach Mann February 17, 2012

About half-an-hour up the mountain from Okawa is a house on stilts, balancing over a ravine, abandoned. A handful of rickety structures lean into the hillside nearby, the homes of old hermits who tend their own rice paddies and manage to survive without driving to [...]

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