Cooking Skill Builders

A simple framework for choosing where to eat on a trip: how to use reviews, spot local cues, avoid tourist traps, and decide when to splurge.

Culinary tourism is on the rise. Here is a practical, step-by-step way to plan a food-first trip, from picking a destination to mixing street food and sit-down...

Build a food-first itinerary that leaves room to wander. Nine practical habits, from pre-trip research to edible souvenirs, for eating better anywhere.

Forbes reports La Fortuna's fine dining is turning to local ingredients and traditional Costa Rican cooking. Here's how to borrow that approach in your kitchen.

Vicky Bennison's Pasta Grannies project and new cookbook, Eat Everything, point to a practical, low-waste way to cook and live. Here's how to borrow it.

Seven Costa Rican staples, from ceviche and gallo pinto to casado and batidos, with what each one is and simple ways to bring the flavors into your kitchen.