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Features, essays and guidebook chapters on food, health and wellness, science, history, culture and travel, for National Geographic, TIME, Lonely Planet and more. Grouped by theme, newest first.

History & culture

  1. 001 Tourists flocked to Paris 200 years ago—to see decomposing corpses National Geographic · 2025 How the Paris Morgue, open from 1804 to 1907, turned into one of the city’s most popular sights.
  2. 002 The blackout that nearly broke New York—and the logo that saved it National Geographic · 2025 How Milton Glaser’s I ♥ NY logo helped rebuild the city’s image after the 1977 blackout.
  3. 003 When happy hour in America meant a cheap beer … and free caviar? National Geographic · 2025 The forgotten New Jersey boomtown called Caviar, and the bars that gave sturgeon roe away as a snack.
  4. 004 The Canvas of a Nation Lonely Planet Dubai & Abu Dhabi · 2024 PDF The UAE’s art scene, from Hajar mountain petroglyphs to the galleries of Alserkal Avenue and Saadiyat Island.
  5. 005 Building Narratives Lonely Planet Dubai & Abu Dhabi · 2024 PDF The UAE’s architecture since 1971, from adobe palaces with wind towers to record-breaking skyscrapers.
  6. 006 Pearls, Petrol & Progress Lonely Planet Dubai & Abu Dhabi · 2024 PDF The UAE’s economy, from a pearling trade thousands of years old to the oil boom and beyond.

Food

  1. 007 Food in Dubai: 10 Quintessentially Dubai Dishes and Where To Eat Them Viator · 2025 Ten dishes that define Dubai, and where to eat them.
  2. 008 Dogon, Washington, D.C. TIME World’s Greatest Places · 2025 Chef Kwame Onwuachi’s restaurant celebrating West African heritage and diaspora cooking.
  3. 009 How Ryan Ratino of DC’s two-MICHELIN-starred Jônt is building a national restaurant empire OpenTable · 2024 The chef behind Jônt and his growing Hive Hospitality group.
  4. 010 Street Food & the City Lonely Planet Dubai & Abu Dhabi · 2024 PDF Street food as the UAE’s unofficial universal language, shared by more than 200 nationalities.
  5. 011 O.M.Ghee: From South Asian Staple to Goop’s Golden Liquid EATEN PDF How ghee went from a South Asian kitchen staple to a wellness-world favourite.
  6. 012 Meet the Brewers Bringing West African Flavors to America October · 2020 PDF The founders of Sankofa Beer Company, brewing with West African ingredients in Washington, D.C.

Travel

  1. 013 Mayurbhanj, India TIME World’s Greatest Places · 2023 An under-the-radar corner of Odisha, home to Similipal National Park and its rare black tigers.

Health, wellness & science

  1. 014 Why dancing can be more powerful than antidepressants National Geographic · 2025 What the research says about dancing with others, mood and depression.
  2. 015 The 7 best yoga apps to take classes at home, according to a yoga instructor Yahoo Health · 2025 Seven yoga apps compared on teachers, variety and accessibility.
  3. 016 Life without a mind’s eye Brain Health Today · 2023 A personal essay on discovering my own aphantasia during yoga teacher training in south India, and what the science says.

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Guidebooks

Co-author of Lonely Planet’s India, South India & Kerala, Dubai & Abu Dhabi and Journey: Pacific Coast Highway, and Fodor’s Essential India. New editions of India and Dubai & Abu Dhabi are out in 2026–27.

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