Howard Chua-Eoan

Howard Chua-Eoan is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion covering culture and business. He previously served as Bloomberg Opinion’s international editor and is a former news director at Time magazine. 

In 2024, Brazil provided about six times more beef to the US than Argentina. However, 76.4 per cent tariffs are likely to affect supply and price.
PERSPECTIVE

The steak economy is more than just high prices

Markets – like armies – march on their stomachs

To be fair, tourists weren’t the impetus for Italy’s 2024 punitive law against defacing art, monuments and scenic sites — with fines as high as US$70,000. The targets of that legislation were so-called eco-vandals who’d gone after the Trevi and Milan’s La Scala opera house in the name of saving the planet.

A brief 700-year history of overtourism

Foreign tourists like to complain there are too many of themselves, but the locals do too – and have horror stories to tell

Among the smallest of eateries, the most successful attract customers with a combination of low costs, intense deliciousness, do-it-yourself charm and pure gumption.
LIFE & CULTURE

So you’ve taken over your family restaurant

Mom-and-pop operations are delicate things, and scaling up doesn’t guarantee success

Price increases can gradually eat away at life. In the market for high-end sushi, it’s been dramatic.

Tariffs are eating all the fun out of sushi

The toll they could take on New York City’s most expensive restaurants will be a bellwether for the rest of us

My running mileage is dinky compared to the past. With luck, I hope to run three 3-milers for a total of nine weekly, still well below my 30-milers of the past.
LIFE & CULTURE

A fitness tracker rescued me from resolution failure

Desperate to keep a new year’s commitment planned over 12 months, the writer reluctantly turns to a wearable machine

Chef Paul Marcon of France prepares a dish during the Grand Final of the Bocuse d’Or gastronomic competition.  French domination of the contemporary culinary world is built into modern history.

The high highs and low lows of haute cuisine

The finalists at this year’s Bocuse d’Or produced painstaking masterpieces. But sometimes, don’t you just want a slice of pizza?

Traffic seen on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York at dusk on November 12, 2024. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP)
LIFE & CULTURE

The financial centre trifecta I almost won

First, the writer took Manhattan, then London. But a bug got in the way of Tokyo

Visitors at Frieze Masters, which is devoted to pre-21st century artworks, in Regent's Park, London, on Oct 9, 2024.

Calculating the real value of the art you own

Sometimes, one’s possessions brush up against greatness, if not great valuations

Botswana won its first Olympic gold ever when Letsile Tebogo beat out his rivals in the men's 200m final of the athletics event at Stade de France, Paris, on August 8, 2024.

What exactly were we cheering for at the Olympics?

It’s great to root for Biles, Marchand and Lyles, but let’s be clear about what we’re celebrating

Tipping has reached a tipping point as the black hole of the American hospitality industry — spelling out ever higher suggestions of 15, 20 or 25 per cent on the bill or those wireless payment modules — sucks in the last refuges of civility.
LIFE & CULTURE

Please stop making tipping more awkward

All that math at the end of a meal is taking the gratitude out of gratuities