The Flat World, Delivered in 30 Minutes or Less By Our Man with Extra Cheese in Geneva The United Nations Security Council has never formally debated pizza, but give it time. In the meantime, the Security Council’s catering budget quietly reveals that Margherita remains the only resolution everyone can still agree on—probably because it contains…
The Burger: A Global Love Affair Held Together by Cheese and Existential Dread By the time you finish reading this sentence, humanity will have consumed roughly 2,500 hamburgers—enough to pave a greasy, slightly tragic path from Reykjavík to Jakarta. The burger, once a humble minced-beef puck served to German sailors in nineteenth-century New York, has…
Stanley Tucci, International Man of Culinary Mystery By “Dave’s Locker Foreign Desk” PARIS — Somewhere between a Negroni tutorial and the precise pronunciation of “pancetta,” Stanley Tucci became the planet’s most unlikely soft-power asset. While the United Nations argues over commas in climate communiqués, the 62-year-old actor-turned-gastronomic envoy is quietly colonising taste buds from Lagos…
Romania vs. Canada: A Bloodless Cold War Over Maple Syrup, Mici, and Existential Dread By Ileana Drăghiciu, Bucharest Correspondent-at-Large The world’s attention has been trained on flashpoints with better lighting—Gaza, Kyiv, the South China Sea—but quietly, in the fluorescent glow of hotel conference rooms and trade-fair booths, Romania and Canada have been circling each other…
Steve Reed and the Curious Resilience of the Provincial Everyman on the World Stage By Our Cynical Correspondent, Somewhere Between Gatwick and Gatling If you mention “Steve Reed” in a bar in Brooklyn, a bodega in Bogotá, or a boardroom in Beijing, the reaction is a blank stare followed by polite nodding—the universal sign for…
