In Tanzania, NovFeed is transforming the country’s compost into a source of cheap and nutritious feed for farmed fish. NovFeed is a finalist for the 2024 Food Planet Prize. DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania – When Diana Orembe was growing up in Northern Tanzania, her uncle worked as a fish farmer. It was a difficult profession, where high costs and low profit margins were the norm. He put a lot of money into the fish farm, but expensive fish feed meant minuscule returns. Orembe’s uncle tried to reduce the money spent on feed but didn’t have any real alternatives. The only…

Ahead of our League of Travelers trip to northern Vietnam, R&K’s Charly Wilder caught up with Daniel Nguyen, an activist, distiller, researcher, and our host for this fall’s journey into the highlands and beyond. How has K-Pop influenced the dining scene of Hanoi? What can a red rice noodle dish in the mountains of northwest Vietnam tell us about the origins of phở? If you want to understand Vietnam’s present-day culinary landscape, you’d be hard pressed to find a more knowledgeable guide than Daniel Nguyen. Raised in California by Vietnamese parents, Nguyen came to the country a decade ago to…

As much as I love hostels, there is something nice about the luxuriousness of a hotel: the clean room, comfy bed, desk, iron, strong shower, and bottled soap for the taking (errr…I mean borrowing). They are a quiet, relaxing respite from the world. But luxury comes at a price. Hotels aren’t cheap and I hate spending money on a room I am only going to be in for a few hours. Often, even at my age, I would much rather stay in a hostel (private room though!), which costs less, has more social interaction, and doesn’t make you feel as…