Nicholas Gill

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The Papaya Arequipeña, sometimes called the mountain papaya as it grows above 2,000 masl. About the size of an orange, it can be used in sweet and savory recipes.

The World’s Largest Cruise Ship It's really, really big.

Sometimes the only way to describe the absurdity of the moment is to write something equally as absurd. open.substack.com/pub/newworld...

Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

The Steakhouse Is Our Wildest Delusion Nostalgia lets Americans keep eating beef without reckoning.

I wrote for @bestfoodblog.bsky.social about the DELUSION inherent to the steakhouse trend (filed minutes before RFK Jr. flipped the food pyramid, btw): www.bestfoodblog.net/the-steakhou...

Seriously, WTF. And it’s the most boring food there is.

10 Peruvian Pantry Staples That Elevate Everyday Meals Learn about the game-changing ingredients Peruvian cooks rely on — from quinoa to ají to Andean lupins — plus where to buy them in this roundup by SAVEUR contributor and Cookbook Club moderator Benjamin Kemper.

Learn about the game-changing ingredients Peruvian cooks rely on — from quinoa to ají to Andean lupins — plus where to buy them in this roundup by SAVEUR contributor and Cookbook Club moderator Benjamin Kemper.

Cooking Around Turtle Island A review of Sean Sherman's Turtle Island: Food and Traditions of the Indigenous Peoples of North America.

Every cook/person in North America should be reading @the_sioux_chef’s new book. It’s not just an outline for resurrecting native recipes but a blueprint for rebuilding everyone’s connection to the landscape. open.substack.com/pub/newworld...

The Zero Waste Communication Conundrum Some forward thinkers convene to talk about how they talk

“We don’t even use the word ‘sustainability’ because the big terms tend to be used by people or groups that you don’t want to associate yourself with.” open.substack.com/pub/madfeed/...

A cross between a Havanese and a Shih Tzu should be a called a Havashit.

Michelin is Quietly Dropping its Green Stars They were flawed from the start.

Here’s the original story: open.substack.com/pub/newworld...

Michelin: “the Green Star still exists” Michelin has insisted its green stars remain part of its recognition of restaurants following a story that it might be dropping them.

Michelin has responded to my story on Substack about the green stars and says they still “exist.” As for removing the stars from the website so you can’t know which restaurants have them? It’s to improve the user experience. www.restaurantonline.co.uk/Article/2025...

Michelin is Quietly Dropping its Green Stars They were flawed from the start.

There has been no official announcement yet, but it is becoming increasingly apparent that Michelin is dropping its green star distinctions. They were never quite right. open.substack.com/pub/newworld...

Definitely sheep sorrel. I pick from a big patch of it that comes up every year. It will be around until the late fall.

River dolphins are difficult to get a good photo of, but this one in Loreto, Peru kept leaving the most beautiful trails of mist (which are scientifically referred to as blow and are a mixture of air, mucus & water). To me, this one actually looks like a dolphin.

Sounds great! There’s something similar in Peru & Ecuador made with tarwi (Andean lupini beans). It’s usually called ceviche de tarwi.

Young Baniwa girl with monkey. Camarão, Rio Ayari. Alto Rio Negro, Brazil. A few days ago.

I would add that we can also perceive it through taste.

The Food That Made Us Human The three part story on the origins of cuisine in South Africa.

I took a trip to the tip of Africa to research a story about how Homo sapiens, facing extinction 150,000 years ago, survived and then thrived bc of biodiversity. The 3-part story is a hopeful look at what we as a species have gone through and where we can still go. open.substack.com/pub/newworld...

The following photos are of yucca and yuca, two distinct plants. Their spelling is consistently confused in major media, academic papers and restaurant menus so I wrote this poem so you remember which is which. open.substack.com/pub/newworld...

A Conservative’s Plan to Sell Public Lands Faces MAGA Pushback

“I’m a Republican, and yes, I did vote for Trump,” Mr. Hanes said in a phone interview. “But I didn’t vote for this. I didn’t vote for selling millions of acres of public land.”

Actually you did. Voting Republica is a package of all kinds of terrible. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/c...

I might even know the artist. And the llama.

I want this

Sure, sex and drugs are OK, but have you ever taken a steaming hot shower while covered in poison ivy rashes?

The things you find while gardening.

Pope Bob?

I just had a tight connection in Madrid-Barajas airport where I had to cut the line (stress asking those in front of me if it was OK), run up and down escalators & through terminals, tripped over my suitcase and totally wiped out while crossing through Duty Free, and the flight was delayed. #Travel

I just saw a group of 20 or so protesters in my very Republican Ohio hometown. Things are shifting. Keep it up.

So there’s a trend for small restaurants in Colombia to get design ideas from Pinterest, which means a lot of flashing lights and signs to make social media posts in front of. Sadly, it doesn’t always turn out as they might hope: