Food, cooking, and travel
A couple of days before Christmas, my true love and I decided to take a daytrip to Manhattan to see the store windows, Rockefeller Center, and what New York had to offer for the holidays. We mostly had a great time, including an absolutely delicious …
On a Sunday afternoon in April 1962, my grandfather took me to my first baseball game at Fenway Park in Boston. I was in the third grade at the time and was completely in awe as we emerged from the concourse to the stands …
When we visit Paris, we always stay at the same hotel – the Citadines in the 14ème arrondissement. This section of the city is part of Montparnasse, a section most known for what it used to be. Today it is a mixture of residential and …
For the last couple of years, my true love and I have spent American Thanksgiving traveling in Europe. While America’s travel industry is going nuts, late November is a pretty good time to avoid tourist crowds in Europe (if you don’t mind temperatures of 7°C/45°F. …
I’ve just returned from a week in Leeds. Leeds is a city in Yorkshire about two hours north of London by train, and I visit it often because my true love works at the University of Leeds and lives there when school is in session. …
One of the most popular posts I’ve ever done for Kilt in the Kitchen was It’s More than a Steak with Green Sauce. It’s about one of our favorite restaurants in Paris and at the story of a sauce that is so good it has …
My true love and I have been traveling to Paris since 2004 and we have always stayed at the same hotel – Citadines Didot Montparnasse. It is located in the southern part of the 14eme arrondisement in a residential middle class neighborhood, far from Notre …
When I was 10 years old my family spent a year in California’s Bay Area and one of our regular treats would be a Sunday afternoon dinner at Tarantino’s. Overlooking Fisherman’s Wharf, it was (and probably still is) a white tablecloth restaurant featuring seafood from …
This will be my final note on the World Cup but I couldn’t let this picture go to waste. We fly British Airways from Philadelphia to Paris and that means a couple of hours or so in London’s Heathrow airport. Normally, the food in the …
What is this doing here? This is a food blog, right? Well, yes, mostly, but it is also about travel and we have just spent the most extraordinary two days here in Paris. I’m not a big fan of football/soccer but I recognize a big …