Bologna Travel Tips

Peruvian cuisine has captivated the palates of food enthusiasts all over the world. Known for its diverse flavors and ingredients, Peru’s culinary repertoire features influences from its indigenous Inca population mixed with European, Asian, and African immigrant-brought traditions. Thanks to New York City’s sizable Peruvian community, there’s no shortage of places to enjoy Peruvian fare, […]

Empanadas, or stuffed semi-circle hand pies, can be found all over Latin America. Their history is complex and multifaceted– historians believe that the global concept of stuffed dough originated thousands of years ago in Mesopotamia.  In the case of the empanada, it is believed that an early variant from the Middle East would make its […]

Little Italy once consisted of a large swath of lower Manhattan, stretching from the Bowery to Lafayette Street and Houston Street in the north, down to Worth Street in the south. In 1910, there were 10,000 Italians living in this lower Manhattan neighborhood, one of the poorest parts of New York City at the time. […]

The Empire State Building, MoMA, Times Square, the Statue of Liberty, Greenwich Village, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Bridge, the American Museum of Natural History. These are but a few of places visitors check off a list when in New York City for the first or second or even third time. But if […]

Once upon a time in NYC, someone called the authorities because a man was “mistreating a squirrel.” When the police turned up, they found the “suspect”: an Ecuadorian man who was in the grilling area of the park cooking a cuy, or Guinea pig, on a long skewer. Cuys are a common snack in the […]