Eat Minas Gerais Troopers’ beans are a star attraction at Mineirão One of the best bites in Minas Gerais is in a soccer stadium.
Go Minas Gerais The Perfect Day in Belo Horizonte Cheese tasting, a gorgeous sunset, and cachaça all day.
Eat Minas Gerais Queijo Minas: Brazil’s humble but iconic cheese Brazil’s artisan cheesemakers win international awards but fight for federal seal of approval.
Go Sichuan The Perfect Day in Chengdu Today, the city is booming financially and developing at breakneck speed, but it has retained the reverence for personal time so integral to the city’s ethos.
Eat Spain An ode to gazpacho Because there are as many gazpacho recipes as there are grandmothers in Spain.
Drink Detroit Little Mary’s River Inn The owners of this Detroit mainstay say it’s the “Black Cheers.”
Know Congo Yangambi Research Station At its height, over one thousand workers were based here in occupations ranging from medicine to carpentry.
Eat Miami Recipe: cubano sandwich Miami chef Michelle Bernstein uses onion, jalapeño relish, and Gruyère cheese.
Know Scotland Need to know: Glasgow Because “the people of Glasgow have a better time at a funeral than the people of Edinburgh have at a wedding.”
Know Lyon Bourdain, off the cuff: Lyon “Lyon is a dark, tragic, beautiful, well-eating city, and everyone here knows that they have a really good life.”