Kimchi Carbonara and the Korean Diaspora

Good morning. For The Times this week, Elyse Inamine wrote about the complicated relationship Korean adoptees in America have with Korean food, particularly among those who’ve become chefs. “They’re coming to terms with a heritage they didn’t grow up with,” she wrote, “and enthusiastically expressing it through the vulnerable, public act of cooking for others.”…

Read Your Way Through Cairo

In the same vein is Albert Cossery’s “The Colors of Infamy.” A very fast read, the book follows a well-mannered pickpocket and serves as a guide of sorts to the dynamics of the city’s ancient markets — the swindling, the bargaining, the haggling for a deal. Once you set foot in the Khan el-Khalili bazaar,…

5 Family Beaches in Europe

What makes a great family beach? Clean water for swimming, clean sand for sitting, sunning, playing or walking, and naturally occurring amusements like gullies, tide pools or rocks for climbing. Access to decent food and bathrooms and even showers are also a plus and, thankfully, relatively common in Europe, where I’m based. And, of course,…