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A restaurant in Mexico City is rediscovering recipes and methods to cultivate, eat and preserve wild mushrooms. The World’s Mexico Correspondent Tibisay Zea paid a visit to this all-fungi restaurant in June. This story originally aired on June 10, 2024.

Brown bread ice cream was a popular flavor among some people in 18th century England. So too was Parmesan. Food historian Annie Gray had the chance to taste some forgotten flavors when they were recreated at historical sites across England last year. Gray spoke to The World's Carol Hills at the time.  This story originally aired on Aug. 18, 2023.

One of the most popular dishes in Indian cuisine is butter chicken, with its creamy tomato gravy and succulent chicken marinated in subtle spices. But who exactly cooked it up first is the subject of an ongoing lawsuit in India. Earlier this year, Sushmita Pathak told us about a lawsuit filed by two restaurants who claim they're behind this beloved dish. This story originally aired on Feb. 15, 202...

The home-brewed "banana beer" known as tonto has legendary status in Uganda, but it's lost out in recent years to legally sold and increasingly accessible bottled beer. Those who grow bananas used specifically for tonto are also shifting to more commercially viable varieties. But as Ugandan journalist Christopher Bendana tells The World's Host Carolyn Beeler, the drink is too beloved to lose. This...

Ferhad Feyssal remembers when villagers gathered around the campfire every winter in the Kurdish region in Syria while a danûk, or big pot, cooked bulgur wheat. The memories are so vivid to Feyssal that he decided to name his band Danûk. The World’s April Peavey first brought us their story in June. This story originally aired on June 10, 2024.

A Turkish organization representing the döner industry has applied to the European Union to certify döner kebab as a traditional specialty, similar to serrano ham and feta cheese. German döner makers have vetoed the move, saying the proposed standards could increase the price. The World’s Durrie Bouscaren worked on some “sandwich diplomacy” alongside producer Joshua Coe. This story originally aire...

Earlier this year, Singapore’s Food Agency approved 16 species of insects as safe for human consumption, including crickets, grubs, moth larvae and one species of honeybee. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Matthew Britt, associate professor and chef at Johnson and Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island, about cooking with bugs. This story originally aired on July 31, 2024.

Spaghetti with white sauce. Rice with milk. Lemon slushy. Hamada Shaqoura is a food blogger in Gaza and has been making authentic Palestinian recipes using ingredients from food aid packages handed out at refugee camps, and food he can scrounge up. Rebecca Rosman told us about him back in August. This story originally aired on Aug. 20, 2024.

After President Joe Biden's announcement of a ceasefire at 4 a.m. in Lebanon, the ceasefire began. Alia Ibrahim, a reporter and the co-founder of the Lebanese online news outlet, Daraj  paints a picture of what the day was like for Lebanese people and what the country's troubled political institutions may need to contend with next.

After performing a Fernando Valenzuela tribute at the Dodgers World Series Game 1, Mariachi singer Deyra Barrera caught the eye of Kendrick Lamar who happened to be in the stands as a spectator. Next thing you know, she's featured on his latest album which has just dropped. No mariachi rap. Just Deyra's exquisite voice was what Lamar wanted, and he got it plenty.

Hosts Carolyn Beeler and Marco Werman list a few headlines in the news you might have missed.

A little over a year ago, the leader of Sinn Fein, Mary Lou McDonald, looked like a shoo-in to become Ireland's next prime minister (taoiseach). As the country heads to the polls on Friday, her chances look increasingly remote. Sinn Fein is now neck-and-neck with the two governing parties in the polls. And in her own constituency, McDonald is competing for a seat against one of the country's most-...

This past weekend, Ghanaians celebrated the 100th anniversary of the return of a king banished by British colonial rulers. Host Marco Werman tells the story of the Ashanti king, King Prempeh I, whose exile in the Seychelles Islands and heroic return to Africa's Gold Coast demonstrated the resilience — and ultimately, the independence — of the Ashante people who founded the nation of Ghana.

It takes courage to be the first in your family to go to college. But there's also a lot to be proud of — especially when you’re headed to Stanford University. But Kaylyn Noah, whose parents are Ghanaian immigrants, is taking it all in stride. Mostly. Colorado Public Radio's Education Reporter Jenny Brundin spoke this fall with the Denver 18-year-old as she packed for college.

Across Europe, a lot of the plastic people drop in the emblematic "yellow containers" doesn't end up recycled. Some plastics slip through the cracks, others are contaminated. How to deal with plastic waste is on the agenda at the UN-led negotiations for a global plastics treaty underway in South Korea. Limiting plastic production is another idea, but oil-producing countries are against it. The Wor...

US President Joe Biden is expected to visit Angola next week. It will be the first presidential visit to sub-Saharan Africa since 2015. The World's Sarah Birnbaum reports the visit was meant to underscore American interest in a vital infrastructure project there.

Every year since 1970, groups of Native Americans have been gathering in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Thanksgiving Day to mark a National Day of Mourning. They honor their ancestors and march to remember “the genocide of millions of Native people, the theft of Native lands and the erasure of Native cultures.” Over the years, the event has also stood in solidarity with other Indigenous struggles aro...

On Wednesday, police in the Philippines filed criminal complaints against the country's Vice President Sara Duterte, whom they allege assaulted members of law enforcement in the country's legislature. While she denies those allegations, she's also been summoned for questioning after she threatened to assassinate the country's President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., his wife, and the speaker of the Philipp...

US negotiators have brokered the release from Chinese prisons of three Americans: Mark Swidan, Kai Li and John Leung. Swidan faced a death sentence on drug charges. Li and Leung had been charged with espionage. The World’s Marco Werman talks with Sophie Richardson, a visiting scholar at Stanford University about the swap.

Daniel Morel is a photographer from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, with an interesting life story — and a new exhibit in Massachusetts. The World's Sarah Birnbaum introduces us to Morel and some of the photographs in the show.

Construction is set to start at the beginning of 2025 on a suspension bridge across the Strait of Messina, connecting mainland Italy to Sicily. It’s an idea that’s been centuries in the making, dating back to Roman times. The project has been proposed and abandoned a few times in recent years. Transportation correspondent Jeremy Siegel looks at how the bridge is once again on the cusp of reality w...

After more than a year of fighting, Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon appear to be on the cusp of a ceasefire. The US and France helped shape the ceasefire plan that's expected to go into effect on Wednesday morning local time. Meanwhile, Israel carried out intense air strikes throughout the day today in and around Beirut.

Pakistan’s capital Islamabad is witnessing major protests today as thousands of supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan flood the city demanding his release. The capital also witnessed major road closures and communications cuts as police clashed with the supporters. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Pakistani journalist Aamir Saeed Abbasi about the latest from Islamabad and what could potent...

Oil from Azerbaijan accounts for less than 1% of global reserves today, but the Central Asian country once played a major role in fueling the Soviet Union. The symbol of this production might was the world’s first, and likely only, floating oil city: Neft Daşları — a network of 2,000 oil rigs connected by almost 200 miles of drivable causeways — rising out of the Caspian Sea. Host Marco Werman spo...

Breyten Breytenbach was a towering South African intellectual, poet, painter and anti-apartheid activist who died in Paris on Monday at the age of 85. Breytenbach spent seven years in a South African prison for his activism against apartheid. He was also one of the foremost poets in his native tongue, the Afrikaans language, but managed to delineate between his love of the language and its associa...