Rachel Pieh Jones on what the hottest country on earth looks like at lunchtime: “Despite the listlessness of the waves, the winds off the ocean where the Red Sea bleeds into the Gulf of Aden provide a soothing breeze.”
Paris-bound rambler Will Fleeson finds clarity, with the aid of a shot of pear brandy, on a pit stop in Belgrade: “Everywhere you went, there was too much to know and tell and never enough time.”
Food writer Martha Miller interviews Giulio Benuzzi, an Italian truffle hunter, about the culinary delicacy and the dogs trained from birth to unearth them.