DO YOU PLAN your vacations around food?

If so, you’re a culinary tourist — and these links are for you!

1. Floating Food Festival in Mexico City (SMITHSONIAN)
2. Where Is Puebla — and Why Should I Visit? (ALL ABOUT PUEBLA)
3. Street Food Tours with Eat Mexico (PLANET EYE TRAVELER)
4. A Cook’s Tour to Mexico (GO MEXICO GUIDE)
5. NYC airport trades fast food for sit-down service (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
6. Five years after Katrina, New Orleans’ charm calls again
7. An American Barbecue Pilgrimage (SLATE)
8. Welcome to Meatopia! On Williamsburg New York’s blossoming carnal id (CAPITAL NEW YORK)
9. Adventurous American eaters going abroad: A Costa Mesa café is organizing groups of ‘culinary adventurists’ to southern Italy (DAILY PILOT)
10. New York City Dining and Travel Notes (DAVID LEBOVITZ)
11. Tokyo’s department-store basements take shopping to another level (LONELY PLANET)
12. K+5: 13 Things in the New Orleans food culture changed by Hurricane Katrina (NOLA.COM)

LEARN MORE about the food you eat with these tasty links:

1. A Short History of the Chinese Restaurant: From stir-fried buffalo to Matzoh Foo Young (SLATE)
2. BBQ: A Southern Cultural Icon (UVA)
3. The Potato, Treasure of the Andes: From Agriculture to Culture (INTERNATIONAL POTATO CENTER)
4. Oral Histories: Andrew Pollard of Memphis’ A&R Bar-B-Que (SOUTHERN FOODWAYS ALLIANCE)
5. The Naked Truth about Aphrodisiacs (LEITE’S CULINARIA)
6. In Search of Mexico’s National Cuisine: ¡Que vivan los tamales (y tortillas)! (REVISTA)