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review: powder puff…
I’m not a Southerner, and I won’t claim to be an expert on Southern food. So I can’t tell you how the beignets at Café du Monde measure up to what a Southerner expects from a beignet. But if the...
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le squer at sirha…
“So, you will come to my presentation with Le Squer in Lyon.” It was more of a decision, less a question. Bruno Verjus, arguably, knows more about food than any other person I know. The bonus is...
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best desserts of 2014…
~ My parents, who immigrated to the United States over forty years ago, said that, when they first arrived on these shores, they had no concept of “dessert.” In Taiwan, where they had spent most of...
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travel: cinnamon and midnight toasts… (helsinki)
~ My first trip to Finland was in 2005, when I took an overnight cruise from Stockholm to the ancient capital of Turku on the country’s west coast. That day-stop – which only gave me enough time to...
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travel: so flirtable….
~ I’ve been playing tag with London all of my adult life: always flirting, but never letting myself get caught in what would surely be a financially devastating love affair. So, perhaps purposefully,...
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travel: woo pig sooie… (2017)
~ In the decades since I last visited my neighboring state to the south, I have heard increasing praise for Arkansas’s upper-left corner. Home to three Fortune 500 companies – Tyson Foods, J.B. Hunt...
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travel: the city by the bay… (san francisco; 2018)
– According to the year-end travel summaries and stats issued annually by my airline of choice, San Francisco has been my most-frequent destination for the past four years. And yet, I rarely mention...
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review: powder puff…
I’m not a Southerner, and I won’t claim to be an expert on Southern food. So I can’t tell you how the beignets at Café du Monde measure up to what a Southerner expects from a beignet. But if the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
le squer at sirha…
“So, you will come to my presentation with Le Squer in Lyon.” It was more of a decision, less a question. Bruno Verjus, arguably, knows more about food than any other person I know. The bonus is that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
best desserts of 2014…
– My parents, who immigrated to the United States over forty years ago, said that, when they first arrived on these shores, they had no concept of “dessert.” In Taiwan, where they had spent most of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
travel: cinnamon and midnight toasts… (helsinki)
~ My first trip to Finland was in 2005, when I took an overnight cruise from Stockholm to the ancient capital of Turku on the country’s west coast. That day-stop – which only gave me enough time to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
travel: so flirtable….
~ I’ve been playing tag with London all of my adult life: always flirting, but never letting myself get caught in what would surely be a financially devastating love affair. So, perhaps purposefully, I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
travel: woo pig sooie… (2017)
~ In the decades since I last visited my neighboring state to the south, I have heard increasing praise for Arkansas’s upper-left corner. Home to three Fortune 500 companies – Tyson Foods, J.B. Hunt...
View ArticleClik here to view.
travel: the city by the bay… (san francisco; 2018)
– According to the year-end travel summaries and stats issued annually by my airline of choice, San Francisco has been my most-frequent destination for the past four years. And yet, I rarely mention...
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