From the monthly archives:

February 2010

Exotica

2010.Feb.10 Wednesday

Huge, green or yellow compound fruit containing large bulbs of yellow, banana-pineapple flavored flesh. Texture is either like raw oysters or crisp and almost crunchy.” – Anonymous I have to admit, I never thought I’d see fresh jackfruit here in BA.

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Travelin’, Nat Geo Style

2010.Feb.08 Monday

Just a quick note that I forgot to post here the other day (how odd, I did post it to Facebook and Twitter and completely neglected my own blog, what is the world coming to?) – a couple of months ago I spent an intensive foodie day with NatGeo Traveler writer and Moon Guide author [...]

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Perú Я Us

2010.Feb.08 Monday

Huarique: Lugar poco conocido donde se puede comer y beber a bajo precio.” “Hole-in-the wall” For many years, until the cuisine, and in particular, the banh mi sandwiches, became all the rage, those in the know in NYC knew that the best of those sandwiches, not to mention amazingly good, home-cooked Vietnamese dishes of other [...]

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RCMP: Royal Canadian Meal Plan

2010.Feb.06 Saturday

Even when Canadian humour is awful it just lies there being awful in its own fresh way.” – Robert Thomas Allen, writer In the tourism industry, it’s a given that Canadian tourists are affable, i.e., they play well with others. And, in general, that’s been my experience. So the question was, what are they like [...]

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Hot Fusion

2010.Feb.04 Thursday

Another factor that renders Peru exceptional: The unusual is commonplace.” – Fabiola Santiago, Miami Herald It’s really not news around here, or probably in any hot culinary landscape, Peruvian cuisine, and in particular modern, fusion, or nueva andina, are all the rage. For some time now I’ve been hearing about a hotspot of the genre [...]

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Hard Day’s Night

2010.Feb.03 Wednesday

It’s common sense to me that you shouldn’t eat most of the chemically treated rubbish most people seem to stuff themselves with.” – John Lennon There were the inevitable jokes about us serving beetles, there were questions of whether or not the meal would be vegetarian, since the quartet spent a good part of their [...]

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Nekkid ‘n Poorly Made?

2010.Feb.02 Tuesday

This is Jools’ favorite quick Saturday afternoon pasta. Every time I make it, even though it only uses a tiny fraction of my brain and takes a few minutes in the pan, she seems to be really impressed with it, so on that basis, I decided to put it in this book.” – Jamie Oliver, [...]

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