Stories
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Reportage
The last salt rakers of Castro Marim
Fourteen families still rake flor de sal by hand on the Algarve’s eastern edge. We spent a summer with the youngest of them.
Words by Inês Carvalho

Essays
A kitchen that cooks with the sea
On the Faroe Islands, one chef has stopped buying salt altogether. Hana Sørlie on brine, patience and the taste of a cold ocean.
Words by Hana Sørlie

Recipes
Salted lemons, three ways
One jar on the shelf, three dinners on the table. Kwame Asante’s preserved lemons, and what to do with them all winter.
Words by Kwame Asante

Reportage
Five generations of klippfisk
In Kristiansund, the Moe family has dried salted cod on the same rocks since 1871. The rocks are still there. The cod is getting harder to find.
Words by Hana Sørlie

Interviews
In conversation with Maria do Céu
She took over her father’s salt pan at 61. Priya Raman asks what changed, and what never will.
Words by Priya Raman

Field Notes
Field notes: a morning in Tavira
Four hours, one notebook and a market that closes at noon.
Words by Inês Carvalho

Recipes
Anchovies under salt
The simplest preserve there is, and the one that teaches you most about patience.
Words by Kwame Asante

Reportage
The people who pick our tomatoes
Every August, ten thousand seasonal workers arrive in Foggia. Luca Ferrante follows one crew from dawn to the long dinner after.
Words by Luca Ferrante

Essays
Three weeks of cherries
In Fundão the whole town works the harvest, then eats nothing but cherries for a month.
Words by Inês Carvalho

At the Table
A long table in Puglia
The menu for the end of harvest: twelve dishes, forty people, one very old olive tree.
Words by Kwame Asante

Reportage
The amaro makers of the Dolomites
Thirty-two herbs, one secret, and a family that hasn’t changed the recipe since 1902.
Words by Luca Ferrante

Essays
On learning to like bitter things
Coffee, chicory, grapefruit, grief. Hana Sørlie on the flavours we only understand later.
Words by Hana Sørlie

Interviews
In conversation with a winter forager
Dandelion, wild chicory, sea beet: what grows when nothing else does.
Words by Priya Raman

Recipes
Charred radicchio with blood orange
A plate for the end of winter: bitter leaves, sweet fruit and too much good oil.
Words by Kwame Asante
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