Travel, Food, and History

Travel journals, places worth the trip, and every recipe in Johnew's Kitchen.

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Johnew's Kitchen

Recipes, Cooked and Kept

Every recipe I've cooked and kept, in one format, with kitchen notes, the bar, and the pantry.

Monet to Matisse Field Guide

A Gallery Visit, Painting by Painting

My guide to the AGO's Impressionist Revolution show: the Salon rules the painters broke, the lineage from Monet to Mondrian, and eight paintings I stopped for.

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30 Dec 2025 Rebalanced: Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka in Nine DaysNine days down the old Tōkaidō, from Tokyo to Kyoto, Nara, and Osaka, with Shinto and Zen, shoguns and emperors, and what Japan ate along the way. 29 min 30 Dec 2024 The City and the Church: From Troy to Constantinople in Nine DaysNine days in Istanbul and on the Aegean coast, told in the order of its history: from Troy to the Greek cities of Ionia, Roman Ephesus, the eastern Roman Empire, and the Ottomans. 22 min 22 Aug 2024 In Search of Middle-earth: Nine Days in New ZealandA winter journey through New Zealand in search of Middle-earth, from the glaciers of Aoraki to the lakes around Glenorchy and the volcanoes of the North Island. 26 min 30 Nov 2023 Where the Writing Ended: Three Thousand Years of Egypt in Seven DaysA week in Egypt, told in the order of its history: from the first stone pyramid at Saqqara to the last hieroglyphs ever carved, at Philae. 23 min