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Southeast Asia's first fusion cuisine?

Peranakan food (pictured: Nasi kerabu) is often considered one of Southeast Asia's first fusion cuisines (Credit: szefei/Getty Images)

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A forgotten route to an ancient empire

By Catherine Balston

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Earth's most beautiful road trip?

By Anthony Ham

There are nearly a dozen bean-to-bar chocolate companies in Belize (Credit: Cannon Photography LLC/Alamy)

Food & Hospitality

The world's true cradle of chocolate

By Maggie Downs

In Chile's Atacama Desert, the driest place on earth, evidence has been found of mummies that pre-date the Egyptians' by 2,000 years (Credit: Sergio Donoso/EyeEm/Getty Images)

A South American town built on the dead

By Juan Francisco Riumalló

Middle Eastern or Arabic dishes and assorted meze (Credit: thesomegirl/Getty Images)

Changing how the world thinks about food

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The fruit's texture has been compared to custard, and the flavour is a combination of banana and mango. (Credit: krblokhin/Getty Images)

Forgotten Foods

The fruit that once fed mastodons

By Jonathan Shipley

Aerial view of Pingualuit Crater, Quebec

Geological Marvels

An icy mystery deep in Arctic Canada

By Phoebe Smith

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A vegan-loving city sued by McDonald's

By Srishti Chaudhary

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The oldest place on Earth?

By Dan Avila

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The UK landscape that hid a criminal enterprise

Culinary Roots

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Where people 'surf' tubular clouds

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