But to experience a lesser-known Texan food hub chock-full of traditional and ethnic fare (think French-Vietnamese, Japanese and Mexican flavors), head to Houston.
It doesn't look much like a Munich beer hall – it is a typical arts-hub cafeteria space, full of people tapping away at MacBooks beneath the slogan "All schools should be art schools" – but in its fridges you will find a constantly changing array of German beers: dunkels, hefeweizen, pils, helles and even smoked beers, many from breweries that were new names to me.
The book captures people in the layovers of life, beginning at LAX, a hub for the Global Soul, full of people from somewhere else.
And towns as as large as neighbouring Griffith, a busy hub which appeared to be full of vim, vigour and young men in noisy cars doing "mainies" on a Sunday night.
Family-run Hotel somet Rosenheim is some distance from the main tourist honeypots, but still has a plum address almost opposite the Ostbahnhof transport hub in Haidhausen, a residential district full of cafes, bars and independent shops.
Michigan Avenue becomes a wonderful hub – the self-styled "Magnificent Mile" – crammed full of high-end shops and rather beautiful people.
One technology hub I visited, the m:lab, was full of state-of-the-art mobile devices and teeming with eager mobile app developers.
Not just a hub for skiers heading to the Swiss Alps and a business city, Zurich is full of significant modern architecture, galleries and hip bars.
In a cutting attack on America's financial hub, one of the world's most respected economists has said Wall St is full of "crooks" and hasn't reformed its "pathological" culture since the financial crash.
The Spaniard was the creative hub of everything the Blues did, demanding the ball at every opportunity and giving a dazzling display, full of one-touch football, neat passes and crucially, a telling final ball.
