Nicholas Gill

Michelin is Quietly Dropping its Green Stars They were flawed from the start.

Here’s the original story: open.substack.com/pub/newworld...

Michelin: “the Green Star still exists” Michelin has insisted its green stars remain part of its recognition of restaurants following a story that it might be dropping them.

Michelin has responded to my story on Substack about the green stars and says they still “exist.” As for removing the stars from the website so you can’t know which restaurants have them? It’s to improve the user experience. www.restaurantonline.co.uk/Article/2025...

Michelin is Quietly Dropping its Green Stars They were flawed from the start.

There has been no official announcement yet, but it is becoming increasingly apparent that Michelin is dropping its green star distinctions. They were never quite right. open.substack.com/pub/newworld...

Definitely sheep sorrel. I pick from a big patch of it that comes up every year. It will be around until the late fall.

River dolphins are difficult to get a good photo of, but this one in Loreto, Peru kept leaving the most beautiful trails of mist (which are scientifically referred to as blow and are a mixture of air, mucus & water). To me, this one actually looks like a dolphin.

Sounds great! There’s something similar in Peru & Ecuador made with tarwi (Andean lupini beans). It’s usually called ceviche de tarwi.

Young Baniwa girl with monkey. Camarão, Rio Ayari. Alto Rio Negro, Brazil. A few days ago.

I would add that we can also perceive it through taste.

The Food That Made Us Human The three part story on the origins of cuisine in South Africa.

I took a trip to the tip of Africa to research a story about how Homo sapiens, facing extinction 150,000 years ago, survived and then thrived bc of biodiversity. The 3-part story is a hopeful look at what we as a species have gone through and where we can still go. open.substack.com/pub/newworld...

The following photos are of yucca and yuca, two distinct plants. Their spelling is consistently confused in major media, academic papers and restaurant menus so I wrote this poem so you remember which is which. open.substack.com/pub/newworld...

A Conservative’s Plan to Sell Public Lands Faces MAGA Pushback

“I’m a Republican, and yes, I did vote for Trump,” Mr. Hanes said in a phone interview. “But I didn’t vote for this. I didn’t vote for selling millions of acres of public land.”

Actually you did. Voting Republica is a package of all kinds of terrible. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/c...

I might even know the artist. And the llama.

I want this

Sure, sex and drugs are OK, but have you ever taken a steaming hot shower while covered in poison ivy rashes?

The things you find while gardening.

Pope Bob?

I just had a tight connection in Madrid-Barajas airport where I had to cut the line (stress asking those in front of me if it was OK), run up and down escalators & through terminals, tripped over my suitcase and totally wiped out while crossing through Duty Free, and the flight was delayed. #Travel

I just saw a group of 20 or so protesters in my very Republican Ohio hometown. Things are shifting. Keep it up.

So there’s a trend for small restaurants in Colombia to get design ideas from Pinterest, which means a lot of flashing lights and signs to make social media posts in front of. Sadly, it doesn’t always turn out as they might hope:

One of my obsessions in my travels in Chile over 20 years has been their giant, too big to hold, knife and fork sandwiches. This guide breaks down common variations to obscure regional sandwiches, plus the types of breads, condiments, fillings & lingo. newworlder.substack.com/p/guide-to-c...

I want to be crystal clear about tariffs:

The consumer will pay for them. If we get hit, we will 100% be passing this on, as will most industries.

I do a lot of writing in notebooks as I travel and I only just realized it’s possible to scan the pages with my iPhone camera and copy the text. The amount of time this is going to save me is 🤯

I’ll keep my eyes open when I’m back in Peru. Chiles get called different things by region, even the common ones, so mix ups are likely.

Looking closer you are probably right. It doesn’t look like aji limo either, which I keep seeing lemon drop translated as. I’m sure it’s around, though I don’t know of a common name for it.

Hi! I believe they are aji mochero, which is fairly easy to find on the north coast. You won’t see it everywhere though.

Bit into a shotgun pellet during lunch for the second time in a month #Amazonia

“Ladies and gentlemen, we're experiencing some corniness. Please return to your seats and fasten your seatbelts.”

Your best caption in the comments:

Definitely not copying them. Has to be distinct. But support for independent voices could go a long way in countering the sea of right wing misinformation.