Sebastian Modak

Brooklyn

Travel Editor at The Wall Street Journal

likes words, loves wandering | travel editor, @wsj | former 52 Places Traveler, @nytimes

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Articles

The Dreamlike Train Ride That Should Be on Your Travel Bucket List

Nov 30, 2024 | wsj.com | Sebastian Modak

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The Dreamlike Train Ride That Should Be on Your Travel Bucket List

Nov 30, 2024 | yahoo.com | Sebastian Modak

The daily Crossword was played 14,032 times last week. Can you solve it faster than others? The daily Crossword was played 14,032 times last week. Can you solve it faster than others?
An Unforgettable Meal Can Cost $5 at Singapore’s Hawker Centres. Can the Next Generation Save Them?

Oct 17, 2024 | kanebridgenews.com | Sebastian Modak

No trip to Singapore is complete without a meal (or 12) at its hawker centres, where stalls sell multicultural dishes from generations-old recipes. But rising costs and demographic change are threatening the beloved tradition.
Pugliese Cooking Refuses to Be Pinned Down

Aug 26, 2024 | saveur.com | Sebastian Modak

At the back of a butchery in the town of Martina Franca, Riccardo Ponte claps his massive, baseball-mitt hands, calloused from years of charcoal burns and judo holds, and presents the next plate. Tender chunks of veal lung wrapped in sinister layers of pork fat form a glistening pyramid on the table. “Pugliese chewing gum,” he says with a grin, before retreat- ing back to his grill, a central fixture of his shop, called Mang e Citt, or “Sit Down and Eat” in Pugliese slang.
The Secret to a Better Vacation? Don’t Go at the ‘Best’ Time

Feb 10, 2024 | livemint.com | Sebastian Modak

Greenport, once a whaling hub, sits on the North Fork of Long Island, the sliver of land that extends east from Manhattan until it splits like a fishtail into the Atlantic. Come summer, this area’s population swells with vacationing families, as in so many beachy locales within driving distance of New York City—the Jersey Shore, the Hamptons. When fall settles in on the North Fork, the beachcombers head home to nurse their sunburns and the pumpkin-crazed hayriders arrive.
The Secret to a Better Vacation? Don’t Go at the ‘Best’ Time

Feb 9, 2024 | wsj.com | Sebastian Modak

“THIS IS way harder to do in the summer,” Evan Bucholz said as he raised his glass and then knocked back a 50-50 shot of amaro and something stronger. I followed suit. Bucholz, mixologist and co-owner of the bar Brix & Rye in the town of Greenport, N.Y., was talking about the trickiness of finding time to indulge in a drink with a customer, and the spirited discussion we’d just had. He always tries to connect with guests, he told me, but on some nights in the summer it’s just impossible.
The Secret to a Better Vacation? Don’t Go at the ‘Best’ Time

Feb 9, 2024 | wsj.com | Sebastian Modak

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The Secret to a Better Vacation? Don’t Go at the ‘Best’ Time

Feb 9, 2024 | on.wsj.com | Sebastian Modak

Cookies, device or similar online identifiers (e.g. login-based identifiers, randomly assigned identifiers, network based identifiers) together with other information (e.g. browser type and information, language, screen size, supported technologies etc.) can be stored or read on your device to recognise it each time it connects to an app or to a website, for one or several of the purposes presented here.
The Year in Bars

Nov 28, 2023 | departures.com | T. Cole Rachel |Sebastian Modak |Sophie Mancini |Patricia Garcia |Joshua Sanchez |Jane Lee | +2 more

HAVING SPENT SO much of my life in bars — both as a patron and, for the entirety of my twenties, as a bartender — I have strong feelings about what constitutes the perfect place to have a drink. A great bar has at least one of the following: an incredible selection of special spirits, a well-considered cocktail menu, or the kind of environment that makes it easy to hang out, whether it be for five minutes or five hours. If you’re lucky, maybe the bar has all of these things.
A Different Kind of Family Tradition? A Big Holiday Trip Together.

Nov 20, 2023 | advisorstream.com | Sebastian Modak |Ron Phillips

By Sebastian Modak Nov. 20, 2023 IN 2016, Alexandra Perrotti stumbled upon a curious phenomenon. The nonprofit education strategist in Washington, D.C., was looking for airfares to visit her brothers in Texas over the Thanksgiving weekend. Daunted by the price of flights for her and her parents, who live outside of Philadelphia, she started poking around farther afield.