Cooking around the world and Travel Belles are a match made in heaven. Some Travel Belles Gotta Eat and more than a few of us Gotta Cook too.
This week for Cooking Around the World, a simple recipe for panna cotta to remember a local ristorante in Vogogna, a favorite Italian village I confess I am often a creature of habit when it comes to food. If I find something I love at a restaurant, I simply have to order it over and over [...]
Bra, Italy, in the raw I’ll try anything once. Then I’ll try it again, and if I don’t like it I’ll try it a third time just to be sure. Taste buds and expectations change, so maybe the food will, too. And when the food in question is a regional specialty, I feel obliged to [...]
Editor’s note: Not that Travel Belles need an excuse to talk chocolate, but January 31 was National Hot Chocolate Day AND it’s been two whole weeks since we talked about this European country’s version. Besides we haven’t talked about any European fried dough products in months! … We’ve got you covered today! A traditional post-party breakfast [...]
A warm, Italian treat perfect for those cool winter days In Italy, the time has come to relinquish the fluorescent, plastic gelato spoon. You may crave the cool sweet 365 days a year, but many gelaterie close in the winter. So in the name of eating seasonally, trade your plastic cup or cone for a mug of [...]
Jessica, our favorite chocolate loving Travel Belle, went in search of chocolate in San Francisco. She reports in with the tasty results The San Francisco Bay Area is home to fantastic food and wine, making it a great place to travel for any Belle. There are fabulous restaurants and it is only a short drive [...]
Greek food in Greece: dinner prepared with 1,000-year-old culinary traditions I wasn’t sure what I had in mind about Greek food before going to Greece. Visions of gyros with tzatziki sauce, feta cheese, yogurt and a few recipes I’d tried preparing at home came to mind. In the coastal city of Thessaloniki, I found that [...]
An elegant version of Shrimp and Grits for Christmas Eve When I first moved with my family to the South Carolina coast, shrimp and grits was the dish that almost without exception was on every menu. In recent years shrimp and grits has moved from a being a mere staple on the southern menu to [...]
In northern Italy, a stalky vegetable becomes a dish fit for a king Italy’s Piedmont region is a land of rolling vineyards and great northern wines like Barbaresco and Barolo. The area is rich in foods like chestnuts, chocolate and truffles. Since I moved here in May to study at the University of Gastronomic Sciences, I have [...]
Traditional Hungarian Christmas dessert with poppy seeds and honey This dessert brings back so many memories from my childhood. In Hungary the Christmas tree is decorated on the Holy Night (December 24) in immediate families. For us, Christmas is a private, family holiday and we don’t go to parties. Most families decorate the tree together, [...]
Discovering Indonesian Food on Bali Indonesia’s 3,000-mile string of islands arcs across the globe like a sword slung from the earth’s equator. Near the bottom of the curve, at the confluence of the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea, sits Bali. A Hindu island in a Muslim archipelago, Bali has been washed for centuries [...]
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When travel, friends and a dancing pole are involved, a night on the town in Istanbul only seems to be a travel nightmare On my last trip to Istanbul I was accompanied by friends. It was the first visit for them and they were all excited about seeing the famous sites, going on a Bosphorus [...]
Fork in the road that looks like a heart, near Sancerre, #France by @gomarwrites
