If ever a city could be described as spectacularly quixotic, Barcelona is it. The Catalan capital is imaginative, eccentric, and complex—much like its culinary culture, to our utmost delight. With temperate Mediterranean weather,... Read More

Architecture and urban planning played a key role as both propaganda, and as a tangible manifestation of Mussolini’s fascist ideology. Mussolini didn’t simply build buildings or put up posters to reflect his, and by extension Ita... Read More

There is a lot more to Italian Renaissance paintings than rotund nudes. One often overlooked theme is food and its impact and reflection on Italian culture. Sometimes food is the centerpiece, alluding to external factors, such as... Read More

Rarely do we get tired of putting things into context (*nerd alert*), but occasionally we like to frame things a different way and put them in perspective. The master of perspective was of course Raphael, whose "School of Athens"... Read More

36 hours in Singapore isn’t enough. Simply from a stomach’s perspective—the variety and quality of gastronomic experiences alone here are staggering—a week makes more sense. Tack on the fact that Singapore has a unique history an... Read More