Colin Woodard suggests that we've been vastly oversimplifying things by talking about America's internal divisions between red states and blue states, between "the coasts" and the "heartland," between the urban and the rural or even the North, South, Midwest and West. Instead, the veteran journalist slices North America (sans Mexico from Tampico south) into eleven culturally distinct regions that look something like a continentally gerrymandered map gone wild.
Cadena brothers, chef Alfonso and architect Ignazio Cadena design a dauntless monochromatic restaurant in California that celebrates the ethos of the two Americas and the symbolic essence of fire. Check out the story and tell us what you think...