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Discover why Thai cuisine is revered as the ultimate masterclass in flavor harmony. Clare Delish explores the ingredients, techniques, and regional traditions behind Thailand's legendary balance of sweet, sour, salty, spicy, and bitter—and how every element creates perfect equilibrium. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

This isn’t just a travel podcast.It’s about the parts of travel you don’t always hear about. Brought to you by the team behind Solo Female Travelers and our global community, we go beyond destinations and highlight reels to get into what travel actually looks like in real life.We speak with women who do things differently, who take unconventional paths, ask hard questions, and navigate the world on their own terms.You’ll hear practical travel tips, honest conversations, and the stories that don’t always get talked about; the messy, the funny, and the moments that didn’t go as ...

Anni von Upgradeheroes und Harun der Paybackhunter teilen auf Ihren Social Media Kanälen regelmäßig Info´s über das richtige Sammeln con Paybackpunkten, due Betsen Meilendeals und die große Welt der Vielfliegerprogramme.

O caldeirão da Velha Chica e outras histórias brasileiras, de Alexandre Staut, traz uma pesquisa informal e apaixonada sobre alimentação popular brasileira, que dura mais de 15 anos. O autor se vale do jornalismo literário, de relatos de viagem, da história oral, da antropologia e até de ficção, para falar deste tema bastante saboroso. A obra foi dividida em cinco partes. Na primeira, o autor visita a culinária dos povos originários em passeios por aldeias indígenas do Mato Grosso e do litoral do Rio de Janeiro...

Join host Tyler Thompson as he travels to the heart of Brazil's gaucho country to uncover the ancient art of churrasco—open-fire grilling perfected over centuries. From skewer techniques to salt philosophy and the ritual of tableside carving, discover why this smoky, primal tradition still captivates meat lovers worldwide. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Ranger Theo Wilder unpacks the most thrilling rivalry in exploration history: Amundsen versus Scott in the deadly race to the South Pole. Each episode reveals the strategic gambits, brutal miscalculations, and tragic heroism that decided who triumphed and who perished on the coldest continent on Earth. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Diamo voce alla Calabria è il podcast dedicato al turismo calabrese raccontato attraverso le voci di chi lo vive e lo costruisce ogni giorno: istituzioni, operatori, esperti, ma anche giornalisti, autori e viaggiatori. Nato dalle prime registrazioni realizzate durante la BIT Milano 2026, il format prosegue come spazio di racconto e confronto sul presente e sul futuro della destinazione. Attraverso prospettive diverse, restituisce una visione autentica della Calabria, tra strategie, esperienze e nuovi modi di vivere il territorio.

Brought to you by Penguin. For centuries, Mount Etna has sent lava to engulf the towns and villages, terraced fields, orchards, vineyards, and citrus groves that nestle across its slopes. But still it remains home to a quarter of Sicily’s population. Why? Because Etna has always rewarded her...

E. B. White's greatest stories, asides, essays, jokes, and tall tales about the city he arguably saw clearest, loved best, and skewered most mercilessly. Over more than fifty years at the New Yorker, E. B. White came to define a kind of ideal American prose: clear, casual, democratic, and urbane...

Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as a human being and as a journalist. He has grown middle-aged there, eaten the croissants, seen his wife through life-threatening cancer, taken his children to countless football matches on freezing Saturday mornings in the city's notorious banlieues, and in 2015 lived through two terrorist attacks on their neighbourhood. Over two decades of becoming something of a cantankerous Parisian himself, Kuper has watched the city change.

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Herodotus, the fifth-century chronicler, scarcely figured in the curriculum when famed Polish writer and traveler Ryszard Kapuscinski attended university in the 1950s. Ryszard became a foreign correspondent who hoped to go abroad, perhaps to Czechoslovakia. Instead, he was sent to India—the first stop on a decades-long tour of the world. His only companion on his travels was a volume of Herodotus. In his journey across continents, Kapuscinski discovers his life's work: to understand and describe the non-Western world, in all its variety, through his still-virginal Western eyes.

The New York Times bestselling author of Krakatoa and The Professor and the Madman takes readers on a quirky and charming tour of the last outpost of the British empire Outposts is Simon Winchester’s journey to find the vanishing empire, “on which the sun never sets.” In the course of a...

From one of the most important chroniclers of our time, come two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks–writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Joan Didion has always kept notebooks: of overheard dialogue, observations...

Carrying little more than a change of clothes and a pair of binoculars, two young Americans, Mark and Delia Owens, caught a plane to Africa, bought a thirdhand Land Rover, and drove deep into the Kalahari Desert. There they lived for seven years, in an unexplored area with no roads, no people, and no source of water for thousands of square miles. In this vast wilderness the Owenses began their zoology research, working along animals that had never before been exposed to humans.

'I would be most unhappy to think that any part of this memoir should be cut on grounds of 'decency', for those bits are essential....' So begins the lively true story of aristocrat and travel writer Roderic Fenwick Owen. Born in 1921, Fenwick Owen had an extraordinary life, which careered between some of the biggest moments in history and took him to the ends of the earth, meeting (and even living with) some of the 20th century's most well-known people along the way, including Eisenhower, Jackson Pollock, Christopher Lee and Sean Connery. 

A dazzling plunge into the four strangest landscapes scattered across Europe. In Outlandish, acclaimed travel writer Nick Hunt takes us across landscapes that should not be there, wildernesses found in Europe yet seemingly belonging to far-off continents: a patch of Arctic tundra in Scotland...

The Himalayas, the tallest and the youngest mountains in the world, spread from Afghanistan and Pakistan through India, Bhutan, Nepal and Myanmar, with their northern extrusions, the Ximalaya Shanmai, across the Tibetan plateau in China. Despite border restrictions, the inhabitants of this region continue to share a trans-Himalayan identity, fragile yet enduring. The Himalayan Arc focuses on a crucial, enthralling, politically turbulent, yet often underreported part of this Himalayan belt the East of South-east.

In this original and evocative book, we accompany Raja on six walks taken between 1978 and 2006. The earlier forays are peaceful affairs, allowing our guide to meditate at length on the character of his native land, a terrain of olive trees on terraced hillsides, luxuriant valleys carved by sacred springs, carpets of wild iris and hyacinth, and ancient monasteries built over 1,000 years ago. Shehadeh’s love for this magical place saturates his renderings of its history and topography.

Though Frances Mayes is known for her travels, she has always sought a sense of home wherever she goes. In this poetic testament to the power of place in our lives, Mayes reflects on the idea of home, from the earliest imprint of four walls to the startling discoveries of feeling the strange ease of homes abroad, friends’ homes and even momentary homes that spark desires for other lives. Her musings are all the more poignant after so many have spent their long pandemic months at home.