Jun. 15—Peter Detmold, a lifelong San Francisco Giants buff with a fan's acuity for quickly tabulating batting averages, encountered a different kind of calculation Wednesday afternoon. He was seated ...

I was a young man, alone, in Amsterdam. The third item on my to-do list, after visiting the Heineken brewery and Anne Frank’s house, was to partake of a rijsttafel. I knew nothing about food back then ...