7 Food Souvenirs We Collect from All Over the World
From dried chiles to vintage beer cans, here's a peek inside BA staffers' culinary souvenir collections.
Zach DeSart1/6Vintage Beer Cans
“I like decorating with weird vintage beer cans. The graphics were so much cooler way back when.” —Ashlea Halpern, special projects editor
2/6Handmade Knives
“I always make a beeline to the kitchenware stand at the local market. The Holy Grail? Handmade knives.” —Scott DeSimon, deputy editor
3/6Dried Chiles
“Wherever I go, I bring back dried chiles. Part of it is the joy of discovering a new flavor, but also the hunt.” —Matt Gross, editor, BonAppetit.com
4/6Spoons
“A smuggled demitasse spoon is my favorite way to remember a place and its food, like a café doble I had in Buenos Aires or yak yogurt in Dunhuang, China.” —Joanna Sciarrino, assistant editor
5/6Vintage Dish Towels
“I always look for vintage dish towels at flea markets. They’re affordable, packable, and make great gifts for whomever I roped into dog-sitting.” —Christine Muhlke, executive editor
6/6Foreign-Language Cookbooks
“No, I’ll never bake Vetebröd. But foreign-language cookbooks are a great snapshot of another culture, and they look really good on my bookshelf.” —Meryl Rothstein, senior associate editor
