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The oldest coffee in the world? (Credit: Thomas Lewton)
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The birthplace of the coffee bean?

By Thomas Lewton and Alice McCool

A Bedouin man prepares a fire pit for zarb, a version of barbecue, in Wadi Rum, Jordan
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The Bedouin answer to barbecue

By Amanda Ruggeri
The Indian town with no doors (Credit: Siddhartha Hajra)
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The town with no doors

By Sreya Chatterjee (text) & Siddhartha Hajra (images)
According to Balinese belief, speaking Nenek’s true name aloud could summon her to the afterlife (Credit: Mark Eveleigh)
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The woman with an unspeakable name

By Mark Eveleigh
Beautiful plate of oshi palav (Credit: Amanda Ruggeri)
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Is this ‘the king of meals’?

By Amanda Ruggeri
(Credit: Leila Molana-Allen)
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Why Iraqis are so generous

By Leila Molana-Allen & Lizzie Porter
Lakansai, Indonesia, martial arts
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A tiny village with an epic celebration

By Vivien Cumming
Armenians have long been renowned for generosity to outsiders (Credit: MehmetO/Alamy)
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Why Armenians love strangers

By Ben Lerwill
The road between Tbilisi and Gori passes by overgrown fields and the occasional train track (Credit: Eddie Gerald/Alamy)
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The kind people Europe forgot

By Joe Worthington
Small, isolated villages on Fiji’s outer islands still practice the hospitality custom of sevusevu (Credit: Don Mammoser/Alamy)
Food & Hospitality

A village that needs approval to enter

By Diane Selkirk