In cultures where there’s unrest and strife, there’s an urgency to record the recipes of the mothers and grandmothers. As the culture disintegrates, so may everything about the table, including the...

The rocky outcrops that dot much of South Africa’s coastline contain hidden treasure: the cemented remains of the dune and beach surfaces that existed hundreds of thousands of years ago.

As a country surrounded on three out of four sides by water, in the smack-middle of the Mediterranean and the trading routes that its dozens of civilizations have used throughout the centuries, it...