Normally when I go away, I scour over fine dining options, to choose my “1 high end meal” of the trip. I start with the World’s Best 50 and Michelin lists, and I start whittling my list down through careful research until I finally choose. But my trip to Rome was different. My goal was … Continue reading
“The event” to be at this year at the El Saber del Sabor Festival, according to anyone I talked to, was the dinner held at Origen restaurant on Dec 1st, 2014. Chef Rodolfo Castellanos hosted Pablo Salas of Amaranta restaurant in Toluca, Mexico and Alex Stupak from Empellón in NYC. Chef Alex Stupak has been on … Continue reading
After the wonderful whirlwind of Charleston, I was looking forward to moving east for a couple of quiet days. I had chosen Asheville, North Carolina as my stop before Nashville because I’d heard it was a great little food/beer town nestled beside the Appalachian Mountains. It seemed like the perfect place for me to eat, … Continue reading
A few months ago, I watched Woody Allan’s movie Midnight in Paris. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie and let myself be swept away with the romantic notion of Paris. I bought in so hard that when I left the movie the first words out of my mouth were, “I want to go to Paris”. Ben … Continue reading
I am truly a West Coast girl. It’s ingrained in my very being to look down my nose at everything Toronto. And although I’ve been able to weasel my way into every trip imaginable over the years, Toronto hasn’t been somewhere I’ve run to come to. In fact, even though Ben comes to Toronto at … Continue reading
