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Chiara Atik
New York, New York

Where do race, history, and trans-fat all come together in the most happy of marriages?  Ben’s Chili Bowl, located right off the U Street/Cardozo in Washington D.C.
Ben’s Chili Bowl has been around for 50 eventful, fraught years. It was opened in 1958, when the (relatively Southern) capitol was still (relatively) [...]

Everyone knows Geneva for being a cultural, diplomatic, and economic center of Europe, right? People also know Geneva for it’s famous lake and fountain. Maybe even Swiss chocolates? The UN? The Red Cross?…Banks?
Well that’s all fine and dandy, but I didn’t go back to Geneva twice just for that stuff! No, it was the Café [...]

I spent the better part of the year between 2005 and 2006 in Lyon, supposedly the gastronomical capital of France. Well, let me just say that Lyonnais food left much to be desired. That’s probably why my favorite restaurant, apart from an Indian place and a Pakistani place, was a Breton mussels and crêpe house [...]