Talking turkey

As people in North America prepare to give thanks and devour unimaginable quantities of food, we go to the heart of the matter.

The festa dell’uva of the 1930s Italy's fascists celebrate the grape

These days, every little town and village in Italy has its sagra or festa, a weekend, or longer, in celebration of a particular local food.

In the 1930s the Italian fascists decided that floats laden with giant grapes would be the vehicle to drive forward Italian nationalism.

My compadre Luigi hangs out on social media, where he came across “fermented taro leaves made into a patty“.

Kazakhstan stretches across Central Asia from the Caspian Sea in the east to China in the west.