Barbados’ Bold Quest To Claim the “Birthplace of Rum”
From its sinister beginnings, Barbados’ rum is steeped in a rich and complicated legacy that today’s local rum producers are on a mission to reclaim.
The Women Responsible for Italian Rice—and Workers’ Rights
The legacy of Italy’s mondine—the women who historically weeded the country’s many rice fields—is agricultural, cultural, culinary, and above all, political.
Bernal Cutlery’s Cabinet of Curiosities
In San Francisco, Bernal Cutlery has stepped up to support its community and demystify the world of knives.
The Rise and Fall of Arkansas’ Women’s Intentional Communities
Exhausted by a patriarchal society, women flocked to Arkansas to establish lesbian-centered communities where they worked, lived and grew food together in a radical act of returning to the land.
Why These Walls Matter
A restaurateur reflects on how the struggle to save restaurants also threatens to kill them.
2021 in Review
As the year comes to a close, the Life & Thyme editors reflect back on the stories we published in 2021.
Are Paris’ Bistros a Museum of Their Former Selves?
Bistros were once a stalwart of the French capital, but as chefs grow more interested in trendy, contemporary fare, this classic establishment may be relegated to become a relic of its former self.
How Food Delivery Service Apps Obscure the Humans Behind Them
As apps increasingly replace humans in purchasing and ordering food, restaurant and delivery workers risk being entirely dislodged from our collective consciousness, a process that disembodies the people responsible for feeding us.
A Look Into What Sustains the Multiverse of Michelle Zauner
Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast and best-selling author of Crying in H Mart searches for a sense of home through food.
Making It in America When You Don’t Speak the Language
How an undocumented, non-English speaking street food vendor from Egypt makes it in America.
On the Afterlife of the French Caribbean
Contaminated bodies and ecosystems by pesticide use on banana plantations in the French Caribbean reveals the ongoing aftermath of colonial violence.
A Return
M Shelly Conner and her wife build their new Arkansas homestead, and connect with a movement of Black women returning to the South of their foremothers to reconnect with home and land.
Enough Is Enough
In response to the rising violence toward the Asian American and Pacific Islander community, Eric Sze of 886 in New York City helped raise $76,000 for AAPI, Black and Latinx communities.
Portraits From a Pandemic: Grand Central Market’s Better Angels
Los Angeles’s Grand Central Market has experienced two once-in-a-century pandemics. We share their experience through COVID-19 today.