Why cuisine is one of the truest ways into a place and five ways to build a trip around it. Every place eats the way it does for a reason. Its cuisine carries traces of the landscape, the ingredients that grow there, the people who have called it home and the cultures that have passed through. Long before a destination tells you its story in a museum or guidebook, it has often already begun telling it at the table. That's what makes culinary travel so compelling. For people w