Finger-Lickin' Alabama Food Tour

ALABAMA – Adding delicious insult to pleasurable injury, the baked potato topped with smoked turkey and cheese terrified the table with its heft.

Fathom Questionnaire: Jane Lerner

Weirdest thing seen on travels: In a small mountain town in eastern Indonesia, we came upon a just-dead horse being eviscerated. The entire town gathered to divvy up the organs.

Local Obsessions: Danish Smørrebrød

COPENHAGEN – The end result is a visual masterpiece — almost too beautiful to eat. There are hundreds of varieties, the most important elements being creaminess and crunchiness.

Let's Fly to Denmark for Dinner

COPENHAGEN – How far is too far to travel for dinner? That depends whether your friend scored you a table at Noma. This is what the world's greatest meal looks like.

Fathom Questionnaire: Josh Abramson

Weirdest thing seen on travels: Watching a conservative Midwestern guy freak out while briefly cornered by a family of hippos in Botswana.

Eye Candy: Inside Noma's Test Kitchen

COPENHAGEN – What's lurking behind the scenes of the world's best restaurant? Come take a look around the gastronomic temple.

Hometown Debrief: Katie Parla's Rome

No trip to Rome is complete without: Getting ripped off at least once (I'm looking at you, Roman cab drivers), eating a plate of carbonara (preferably at Roscioli), and having a gelato.

Austin's East Side King

AUSTIN – Paul Qui had invented a dish that he knew would drive the drunk crowd nuts: deep-fried roasted beets dusted with shichimi and dressed with kewpie mayo. Beets? For real.

Love Letter: Cochon's Oysters

NEW ORLEANS – Long after the plate was removed and long after the last bite of heart-thumping upside-down pineapple cake was licked clean from the spoon, I thought about those oysters.

Fathom Questionnaire: Salma Abdelnour

Bizarre travel rituals: Terminal-hopping to find an airport branch of a local restaurant. Nothing like eating in the actual city, but less grim than the Chili's near the departure gate.

I travel for the Food