There are flavors you don’t realize are culturally specific until you leave home. For me, an Aussie now living in France, there’s Vegemite (obviously), Tim Tam biscuits, Milo, and the very particular ...

A few years ago, I was traveling Portugal on a tight budget, staying in hostels and eating the majority of my meals in the hostel kitchen, consuming more than a lifetime’s worth of pasta salad in less ...