El Merkury in Center City Philadelphia has won awards for its fast, casual Central American street fare, and the Guatemalan immigrant owner is on a mission to fill up bellies while opening minds. She ...

American food culture has a tendency to absorb dishes so fully that their origins fade into the background. Certain foods become tied to specific cities or moments in U.S. history, even when they were ...

America gets a lot of side-eye for portion sizes, drive-thru culture, and putting cheese on things that probably didn’t ask for it. And yet. Somehow. Against all odds. The rest of the world cannot ...