Amanda Marsalis
Business
We report on how Portuguese and Brazilian middle classes are choosing France as their top European destination. Plus, we look at the new, yet familiar, wave of coffee makers popping up across America.
Monocle travel guide
This month's travel highlights include an izakaya-adjacent cottage in Portland, a pilot's curiosity shop in Honolulu and Portuguese haute cuisine at Belcanto in Lisbon. Plus, new finds in Madrid, Vancouver and Berlin.
Business
Roof farming in Hawaii, mink farming in Denmark, coffee currency in the US and shopping addiction in Lebanon.
Alice Waters
Food is an entire philosophy for Alice Waters, founder of Chez Panisse. For her last meal, she would dine with family, on fresh produce from the nearest local farmers’ market.
Hula hopes
Honolulu, our top-ranking US city for the third year running, wants to shed its honeymoon hotspot image. The film industry, renewable energy and agriculture are helping transform it into a new Pacific power.
Waxing lyrical
Filmmaker João Moreira Salles is the publisher of Piauí, a new monthly magazine in Brazil. Monocle visits Salles in Piauí’s Rio de Janeiro offices to discuss the venture and his approach to journalism.
