The legend of the local

We are meant to eat and drink like them and visit places only they know about. Here's how travel writers and the travel business fell for the cult of localism

Locals do picturesque things like playing chess on the street. Marcel Ardivan on Unsplash

Let me introduce you to an amazing group of people. They live all around the world. They hang out in streets and neighbourhoods and villages. They are incredibly knowledgeable. Where they eat, you should eat. Where they avoid, you should avoid. When you, a traveller…