Beyond Italy
The Colors of Mallorca
This past month I've spent the bulk of my time strolling through the streets of Palma, enjoying the colors of Mallorca, the winding streets, the unique building facades. Mallorcans love color and paint window shutters, doors, and the buildings themselves in bright and bold colors. Each and every one is unique, and it's the exploration...
Eating in Palma de Mallorca
If you're eating in Palma de Mallorca...the choices abound. You'll find local Mallorcan and Spanish cuisine and just about every other choice of cuisine you can imagine. Sobrassada is a fundamental element of tapas served everywhere in Palma! My favorite foodie area is Santa Catalina, and in particular Carrer de Fabrica (Fabrica Street). This year...
The top ten things to do in Palma, Mallorca
Mallorca is a great vacation spot that offers the best of Spanish life and culture, along with the unique flavor of the island. It's well worth it to explore as much of the island as possible, but don't miss out on Mallorca's capital city, Palma. Here are the top ten things to do in Palma,...
Oysters at Nick's Cove, Tomales Bay - Marshall CA
Oysters aside, the drive up to Marshall is enthralling; a stark and beautiful coastline with a back drop of mountains and blue skies. You occasionally pass through charming, yet humble towns that appear to have been untouched for decades: a small white clapboard church with its steeple reaching up to the sky, a general store,...
Maryland crab cakes at Timbuktu
I took Maurizio and Annie to buy take-out crab cakes at this unlikely crab cake venue on Dorsey Road in Hanover, Maryland: an out of the way, side of the highway restaurant and take-out joint. A place, if I were hungry and looking for a place to eat, I would not drive into. The name...
Handcrafted Wine Bottle Stoppers
Outside of San Francisco's ferry building I often find more artisanal creations of interest than within. Yesterday, my only day in town on this visit, I ran across some beautiful woodworked items ranging from vases to bowls to cutting boards to wine bottle stoppers. I enjoy taking a bottle of wine to a dinner at...
Tasting China with IACP in Flushing, NY
The IACP annual conference in NYC is proving to be amazing, with eye opening and mouth-watering food experiences. Case in point: today's Tasting China day-long food tour extravaganza in Flushing, New York's Chinatown.
Sacramento, California train museum dining cars
I'm sitting on the Frecciarossa three and a half hour high speed train from Milan to Rome. It's great: I've got free wifi, a plug outlet for my computer, all the techie things we now look for in train and air travel.And my lunch? I just ate a hard-boiled egg I pocketed from the hotel...
A Visit to Preferred Meats with the San Francisco Professional Food Society
Ugandan born Bala Kironde, with his soft spoken elegance, provided members of the San Francisco Professional Food Society with an outstanding tour of his company, Preferred Meats. Bala Kironde’s father was a Ugandan diplomat turned farmer. On his extensive property holdings a vast assortment of fowl were raised. One of 16 children, Bala Kironde completed...