The Taste of the Finger Lakes: Cornell Chicken with Salt Potatoes
One of the paradoxes of seeking out traditional regional foods is that restaurants often don’t serve them. If a dish has been around a long time and it’s prepared often […]
Category Archives: Contemporary Food Culture
Cuisine de Garbage
This weekend we took a break from wine tasting and visited sites near the Finger Lakes. Niagara Falls was of course stunning and powerful. I also paid a visit to […]
New York Soul
I had two days to eat in New York, one of the great food cities in the world where you can find virtually anything you want. That’s too many choices […]
Wondrous Prague
It is hard to capture in words the essence of Prague, the last stop on our European trip. In some ways it was not Prague we visited but a “Disneyland” […]
The Food Revolution Polish-Style
The list of travel destinations in Europe is lengthy with locations such as Paris, Rome, and Athens captivating generations of visitors. Wroclaw, Poland is probably not on everyone’s list of […]
The Taste of Home
After almost a month on a food and wine excursion across Europe we returned to San Diego last night. And what was my first meal stateside? Why of course a […]
San Sebastian: A Universe on the Bay of Biscay
San Sebastian is a small, picturesque city in Spain (pop. 186,000) situated on a bay that opens to the Atlantic Ocean within shouting distance of the French border. Despite its […]
Trolling for Tapas in Madrid
We have a brief stop in Madrid waiting for our tour of Rioja to begin. What to do in Madrid? Do what the madrileños are most famous for—tapas hunting. I don’t know […]
Roving Decanter 