Food, cooking, and travel
My true love and I have just begun our annual vacation in Paris and while today was less than Stella (more on my next post) I really felt the need for a quickie. We always stay at the same hotel (Citadines Didot Montparnasse) on rue …
A couple of years ago my true love and I vacationed in Istanbul and had an absolutely wonderful time. The trip predated Kilt in the Kitchen, but if I had started Kilt in the Kitchen earlier, I would have been posting every day if not …
One of the real joys of traveling is eating. Dining out in restaurants in the cities I’m visiting is always a highpoint of the trip – not only sampling the local cuisine but also trying international dishes prepared in different contexts. For example, the first …
The other day while were wandering around Portobello Market I stumbled across Books for Cooks, a charming charming bookstore dedicated to, well, cooks. It’s nearly directly across the street from the more famous Notting Hill Bookshop where Julia Roberts met Hugh Grant in Notting Hill. …
One of the things you do when traveling is to visit museums and since my true love and I are in London, we are visiting museums. While walking through Oxford University’s Ashmolean Museum I was struck by how often the objects were connected to food. …
London is famous for its markets but London markets are often more like flea markets than farmer’s markets. Some of the more famous are Camden, Spitalfields, Petticoat Lane, Portobello Road, and Brick Lane but there are dozens. I first visited Portobello Road about ten years …
I have a couple of last thoughts about my recent trip to Leeds and Copenhagen that are left over from my Tale of Two Markets. I actually visited three markets this trip, not two. I compared Kirkgate Market in Leeds to Torvehallen in Copenhagen, but …
Street food is one of the hottest food trends these days. I’m not talking about the Sabrett’s hot dog carts or the tin trucks that have been part of Philadelphia’s streetscape forever, but the style of handheld food that (from what I can tell …
I’m traveling a little these days. Right now I’m in Copenhagen after having spent a few days in Leeds in my true love’s flat. One thing these two cities have in common is weather – both are damp, rainy, and chilly, with temperatures around 13C …
My true love has been off on a couple of research trips lately and I’ve been enjoying her food vicariously as she texts me pictures of what she’s eating. For the last few days she’s been in a small market town about 100 miles northeast …