Tag: food
2 May
Willing Foot, the “exclusive, entirely innovative way to experience any destination” (Maria Schollenbarger) offers a one-day itinerary...
15 Mar
I just celebrated a birthday and chose, as the dinner venue for my group of 8 friends, a favorite of mine, LES restaurant Azul. I first came...
6 Feb
A glimpse of irresistible Paris, through the window, through the mind’s eye. Architecture first, then art, food, light next.It is often...
8 Jan
Manhattan has, as extraordinary as it is for us who live here to believe, been brought to its knees by a snowstorm. The season’s leaden...
26 Sep
Dario Cecchini is a real character; he is also an inspired cook who, for the last 35 years, has run his tiny butchery near Greve and then two...
25 Sep
My day started 30 minutes from Perugia in Umbria, that less-known sister of Tuscany, the one that is a little more withdrawn, that carries her...
23 Sep
Perhaps it is only with age that one begins to truly appreciate texture. Be it the removal of surface layers to reveal the original, as in...
2 Sep
What happens when three of New York’s most beloved Italian-American restaurateurs team up with the founder of a gourmet food and wine market...
14 Jul
On the eastern coast of Sicily, between Catania and Siracusa, one face to the mountain and the other to the sea, gentled by vineyards and rolling...
9 Jul
You won’t find it unless you have been directed there or are simply curious about the red and yellow flag of Spain that hangs from the...
19 Jun
Summer has arrived in New York City and, what that means to die-hard New Yorkers, is bliss. Finally, we get to take our city back —...
9 Jun
Just as Syria is a cradle of human culture, its cuisine impressed me as a star of world gastronomy along with Chinese, French or Italian gastronomy. As...
13 Apr
Bayonne, the capital of the northern Basque country, sits at the confluence of the Adour and Nive rivers and has been, for centuries,...
11 Apr
The renowned chef, Arnaud Daguin, is an inheritor of a name and a profession which he has made his own. Born and raised in Gascogny,...
9 Apr
There is a wonderful warm feeling arriving back in Provence and a jolt that reminds me how much I miss France’s countryside. The warmth...
5 Feb
How, after years of eating my national food, the hamburger, could I possibly find the quintessential, most delicious burger I have ever put...
27 Jan
Most people know Anthony Bourdain from his book, Kitchen Confidential, which jackhammered the restaurant world when it hit the shelves. The...
15 Dec
Each person has his own window through which he likes to view a culture. Some choose cathedrals and museums and others markets and materials....
11 Dec
1961. It all began with a minigolf installation… Doctor Hans Schilling, a German homeopathic doctor, and his wife Marketta, Czechoslovakian...
10 Dec
A lovely mutual friend, Mei Zhang, who is the founder and owner of Wild China, the best purveyor of interesting trips there, introduced me to...
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