Carlo Petrini, Italian journalist, gastronome and founder of Slow Food, died in Bra, Piedmont, on 21 May 2026, aged seventy-six. Over four decades, he transformed the act of eating into a political philosophy: buono, pulito e giusto — good, clean and fair. His legacy reaches through 160 countries, 5,300 food traditions and the first university of gastronomy in the world.

In 2026, the great luxury conglomerates have begun selling what they spent two decades buying. LVMH, Kering, Estée Lauder, Richemont — all are divesting. The Silent Luxury maps every major deal and analyses the structural forces behind the industry’s most significant reshaping in a generation.

The Hōshi Ryokan in Awazu Onsen has been run by the same family since 718. The family motto is: study the water running down a small current. The concept it describes has a name now.

Across Mexico, Japan, the Gulf, Africa and Bhutan, a specific kind of stay treats arrival as a health decision, where the building, the landscape and the kitchen work as one instrument of wellbeing. Rancho La …