Follow Danny Chau as he travels to some of America’s best food cities like New Orleans and Portland and discusses what food can tell us about their people and cultures.
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September 18, 2019
Chau Down: A Montreal Food Diary
Our food correspondent navigates around billion-dollar road repairs to sample wood-fired bagels, Vietnamese and Senegalese delicacies en Français, and more from a food city worlds apart from nearby Toronto
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February 18, 2019
Chau Down: A Toronto Food Diary
How does a city with a negative wind chill come to feel like home to a native Angeleno? Our food correspondent returned to Toronto seeking clarity and curry goat roti on the hood of a Volkswagen hatchback.
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September 6, 2018
Chau Down: A Chicago Food Diary
Our food correspondent traveled to the Windy City and returned with a deep admiration for the city’s cultural multitudes and evangelical fanaticism for its most underrated cultural institution: the jibarito.
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July 18, 2018
Chau Down: An Endless Pursuit of Perfect Flavor
Our resident food correspondent considers the phenomenon of involuntary memory, and the ways it helps us form connections to the world around us
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April 22, 2018
Chau Down: A Portland Food Diary
Our resident food correspondent takes a trip to Rip City for the first time to explore the rich diversity of restaurants embedded within the whitest major city in America
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January 29, 2018
Chau Down: A New Orleans Food Diary
Seven days in the Crescent City, where the Ringer’s resident foodie ate some of the best fried chicken in America, quested for a perfect gumbo, and found home away from home