Switzerland and Prague: A European Book Adventure
I think I am a traveler rather than a tourist. While I love checking out all the usual spots that make a city or country unique, I also love visiting places only locals know about and learning how people actually live. Which is...
See the World in a New Way With These Four Books
December, and the Christmas season in particular, is the perfect time to dream about travel – remembering the places you have been and destinations you wish to visit. The hustle and bustle, the traditions and the time to...
DaiLo: Chef Nick Liu’s #sickasianfood
We ran into Chef Nick Liu a couple of nights ago at trendy DINE and Destinations launch party and got us thinking of our first great evening savouring Chef Liu’s fabulous ‘New Asian Cuisine’...
Books to Inspire Your Travel to France
What inspires you to travel to far away, romantic places such as France? For me it’s simply opening a book and letting the words wash over, encouraging me to visit the destinations written about within its pages. Perhaps it...
Healthy Snacks for Your Summer Road Trip
Summer is often framed as the right time to lose weight and get in the best shape of your life. This is usually to look good in your swimsuit on the beach, but the change to a warm season can make anyone want to watch what they...
Eating Tremblant
Our friends at Expedia.ca recently sent followsummer on a three-day, long weekend to Eastern Canada’s premier ski resort, Mont Tremblant as part of their #BigWorldExplorer campaign. My initial response was,...
The Detox Diaries: Work Day
Ok: It’s a work day. Let’s see how this goes. Gurgling stomach continues: I run to the bathroom two hours before my usual rising time. The Wild Rose Herbal laxative (the second set of three bitter pills) is...
The Detox Diaries: Day One
With all good intentions and a cocky swagger, I stumble out of my red wine, started with two martinis, Nigella Lawson’s Guinness Chocolate Cake induced hangover from last evening’s “ Last Hurrah Before...
Seven Yummy Food Choices in London
Finding food can be quite daunting in London: so many options, so many locations, so many choices. And trying to sift your way through the enormous gastronomic foodie choices in one of the largest cities in the world, unaided and...
A Foraging Adventure in Wales
Fancy a foraging adventure? How about exploring the backcountry beauty and bounty of Wales while gathering food that’s fresh, tasty, local and more importantly free? It seems everyone is planning a foraging outing nowadays...
An Interview with Llangoed Hall’s Chef Nick Brodie
Nick Brodie is a very busy man. Between heading up the kitchen at Llangoed Hall in Wales, picking up two recent awards including Condé Nast’s ‘Best Green Practices’ for 2016 and claiming...
A Rainy Night Dinner at Eastside Social
Tuesday, wet, rainy. Seemed a perfect day to head east to Leslieville and dinner at Eastside Social with my partner and our good friend Brian. ‘A Tuesday in July, shouldn’t be a problem getting a table’ says...
Eyal Liebman’s Sweet Dreams: Food Beyond This Point
When last I hooked up with Chef Eyal Liebman, he was tempting my senses with a chocolaty Beef Wellington: locally sourced beef loin, wrapped in chocolate crêpe and house made puff pastry with sauce poivrade and wild...
Chef Robbie Hojilla Resurfaces at The Harbord Room
We were greatly relieved to stumble upon Chef Robbie Hojilla, late of the now-defunct Hudson Kitchen and share his seasonal, ‘root to leaf’ inspirational food in the hopping, beigey, rosey sun-dappled Monday evening...
Concerning Food and Drink in Argentina
We have been really impressed by the variety and quality of food and service being offered here in Buenos Aires. If these high levels and consistency remain the same elsewhere in Argentina, then they will receive the...
Exploring Coastal Roads in Nova Scotia
The Princess of Acadia chugs her way into the grey, fog-swept Digby Gut and gracefully docks, allowing eager Camper Vanners, Japanese tourists and some locals to disembark and begin their vacations or to simply ‘head...
The Very UN-Pub(ish) Saint John Ale House
When I began my research for our Saint John, New Brunswick overnight, pre-Princess of Acadia ferry ride to Digby, Nova Scotia, I readily admit my skepticism when the Saint John Tourism Rep sent me a list of potential...
Lunching in the NSW Parliament Dining Room
Our social whirl continues unabated – Eric has arranged that Graham, Greg and I are lunching in the NSW Parliament Dining Room, where he is one of the chefs. Graham picks us up and off we go, in high style. Parking in the...
Wonderful to be Cooking in a Kitchen Again.
Thursday, August 19th, 2004: London, England The day is spent quietly exploring Islington, a part of London neither of us really knows. Our umbrellas are up, down, and then up again as it rains off and on all day long. The...