Four years ago this month, Kenny and I took an overnight flight from New York to Reykjavik in Iceland for a 10-day vacation. Because it was August (and not because we checked a weather report), we expected some sunny weather. So we decided to save some money and camp out on a grassy lot behind [...]
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Icelandic Chocolate
Posted in Travel, tagged iceland, noi sirius chocolate, the blue lagoon on August 22, 2011 | 18 Comments »
America’s Oldest Residential Street and Biscuits from the 1700s
Posted in Recipes, Travel, Writing, tagged biscuits from the 1700s, elfreth's alley, jeffrey steingarten, philadelphia, the man who ate everything, thompson's turkey on November 23, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The last couple of weeks have been a complete whirlwind of writing and travel, which was challenging in a good way (the writing) and fun in a thank-God-for-a-break kind of way (the travel). But in my downtime, my brain was mush, so much so that I was sure any posts I wrote would be incoherent drivel. I [...]
Eating in Thurmont and Deep Creek Lake
Posted in Travel, tagged carmel cove inn, catoctin mountain orchard, deep creek lake, schoolhouse earth, seckel pears, thurmont maryland on November 12, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Last weekend I went to Deep Creek Lake in Western Maryland for the first time. Deep Creek is a summer and winter vacation town. But we were there right between seasons, when it’s too cold to use the lake but the snow isn’t yet on the mountains for skiing. Deep Creek Lake is close to [...]
Esquites (Fresh Corn with Lime, Cayenne, and Cotija Cheese)
Posted in Recipes, Travel, tagged corn recipes, esquites, marcela valladolid, mexican made easy on July 26, 2010 | 6 Comments »
I’m normally neutral about corn on its own – which is to say I don’t dislike it or feel immense pleasure when eating it – but there was one time when I really wanted to eat a fresh ear on its cob. My friend, Augie, was visiting me in New York, and he wanted to [...]
Travel: What’s Your Favorite Road Trip Food?
Posted in Travel, Writing, tagged bruce chatwin, jack kerouac, on the road, revenge of the saguaro, road trip, the songlines, tom miller, trail mix on July 23, 2010 | 163 Comments »
My summer travel writing class is about to end, and it’s leaving me with a terrible urge to travel somewhere, anywhere. But I’ve also learned that you don’t have to go very far to find interesting places to explore. A road trip, I think, is in order. Road trips came up in several of the excerpts [...]
The Best Donuts Ever
Posted in Baltimore, Travel, tagged donuts, doughnuts, fractured prune, maryland, ocean city on July 5, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Other than sauteing, breading, and baking zucchini, yellow squash, and flying saucer squash, I didn’t do much cooking this weekend because I was in Ocean City, Maryland. I did, however, eat my first donuts of the year. To me, summer in Ocean City will always mean donuts. But not just any donuts. These are the best donuts [...]
Travel: What’s Your Most Memorable Meal?
Posted in Travel, Writing, tagged costa rica, diane ackerman, eric newby, john mcphee, travel and food, travel writing on June 11, 2010 | 8 Comments »
I’m not traveling much this summer, but I am doing the next best thing: taking a Literay Travel Writing class so I can live vicariously through other people’s travels. Honestly, reading all of these stories that have taken place in Patagonia, Ireland, and Hawaii is making me miss traveling terribly, but other stories have helped me [...]
Tempura (on a Slanted Stove) with Soba Noodles and Hot Dashi Broth
Posted in Ingredients, Recipes, Travel, tagged dashi broth, mirin, portobello mushrooms, tempura, the asian kitchen, tofu on February 1, 2010 | 3 Comments »
My stove makes me curse and stomp and slam things around the kitchen every time I want to use the two back burners. That’s because it slants forward, pushing all of the ingredients to the front third of my frying pans. But I wanted to make tempura last weekend. I planned to have hot dashi [...]
Dashi (Japanese Stock)
Posted in Ingredients, Recipes, Travel, tagged bonito flakes, dashi, Japanese stock, kombu, seaweed on January 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
If you watch Top Chef, you may have heard Leah or Michael explain their dishes by saying they made a little dashi, as nonchalantly as if they had made a peanut butter sandwich. Was dashi a type of fish? The name of a dish? A flavoring? I’ll admit it; I didn’t know. So I turned to my [...]
