Food and Travel Across the U.S.A.

The U.S.A. is where my appetite tends to get overexcited: one minute it is a road trip through gumbo-thick New Orleans humidity and Texas barbecue country, the next it is shave ice in Hawaii, sourdough in San Francisco, doughnuts in Portland or a once-in-a-lifetime meal in Napa Valley. This is a big, delicious sprawl of stories for planning what to eat, where to wander and which very American detours are worth making room for.