'Food Travel Destinations'

In December 2007, Forbes magazine did an article about the world’s 10 most unusual restaurants.
The article includes a restaurant in Florida that serves roadkill; a restaurant in India where the servers are volunteers and you can pay what you want to pay from $1 to $100; a restaurant without lights managed by vision-impaired people so essentially [more...]

We are the world and our palates lead the way or so I would write if I were the copywriter for New York Times Travel Show, Taste of the World portion.
So if you’re in the big apple on Feb 29 (leap year day), March 1 and 2 — there are some interesting things happening related [more...]

Almost every time I go to Florida, I crave Cuban foods. I remember the first time we ate at Columbia in Tampa’s Yborg City. We sat outside and I don’t recall what we ate but it was marvelous. I do remember we washed it down with cafe con leche (Cuban coffee).
It seems that Columbia is [more...]

Sweet deal here I come: Enter the holiday dessert recipe contest. Mentally, I am already in Sonoma, Calif. What’s not to like or want?
All recipes must be readily preparable, written in English, and not more than 200 words. Contestants must be 21 years of age to be eligible.  If you have 50 delectable ideas, that’s [more...]

Like clockwork, the third Thursday of every November brings wine’s best ad campaign  – where anticipation for beaujolais nouveau become reality.
Search “beaujolais nouveau” on Google and hundreds of press releases flood the bandwidth.
Those French sure know how to orchestrate a media circus.
Last year as I was buying my $9.99 bottle of beaujolais nouveau at Trader Joe’s, the [more...]