The best way to celebrate the bicentennial of Mexico’s Independence? A culinary extravaganza showcasing traditional Mexican dishes! Eat your heart out at Grand Velas Riviera Maya – the all-suites spa resort five minutes from Playa del Carmen that puts a twist (a luxurious one!) on the “all-inclusive” experience.
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Gourmet Eats for the Bicentennial of Mexico’s Independence at Grand Velas Riviera Maya
These burgers hold a special place in my heart- why you ask- well, because this was the first time my daughter started eating burgers! She does not like sandwiches- they only one she will eat is a jam sandwich. I don’t make it for her very often since it offers hardly any food value.
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Mint and Ginger Burgers with Cilantro Mayonnaise
The Slaw Dogs gourmet hot dog shop graced Pasadena with its presence back in February , a first time restaurant venture from proprietor Ray Byrne (former managing partner of The Sunset Restaurant).
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Please Enjoy: The Slaw Dogs Serves Booze, Considers Second Outpost
Mas Empanadas: homemade with natural ingredients I’m a big fan of versatile foods. It is great when you find that perfect edible item that can just as easily be stuck in your purse and eaten on the go as it can be savored with a fork and knife at a sit down meal. Burritos and sandwich wraps have long occupied this highly valuable class of chow
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Mas Empanadas, Please!
W hen the sweet-faced teenager navigating a shopping cart in the narrow aisle asked her to “excuse me, Aunty”, she turned and stared. “I’m not your aunty,” she told him severely, and as he watched the boy’s face fall, Amar turned away and smiled to himself, but not without some exasperation
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Everybody Loves A Happy Ending – Of Chalks & Chopsticks
In this week’s Shallow Thought Wednesdays post, John Lindner describes an encounter with Fat Eric’s, a fine-dining take-out/delivery operation in the basement of a church on Fort Avenue. The operation strikes me as an interesting way to get in on the food industry without the huge start-up costs and serving staff needed for a sit-down restaurant. In that sense, the place has something in common with all those food trucks out there
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Strangeness in the night
Fowey, an achingly picturesque village on the south coast of Cornwall, is a fantastic little spot to spend a bank holiday weekend. Blessed with charming narrow streets, expansive harbour views and some lovely old pubs serving great local beers, it has a lot going for it, and you’d have to be incredibly unlucky to have a bad time here. The secret of a good holiday, I always think, is the management of expectations.
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Food For Thought and The Other Place, Fowey
We were recently invited with a select few guests to spend a glorious Sunday evening to sip Sommelier India Wine Competition, (SIWC) 2009 award-winning wines from York combined with gourmet food at the very quaint and much talked about hip new restaurant, Pali Village Café, at Bandra, Mumbai, writes Suneeta Kanga . Every great wine has a story. At YORK, it is the story of passion
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A Lazy Sunday sipping Wines of York
Amusement parks = hot dog heaven I have a lot of my mother in me. If you don’t like the food and prices at amusement park-style concession stands, then for Pete’s sake, don’t plan your day so that you have to eat there. But my husband is an in-law and apparently one who did not get the memo
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Showdown: San Diego Zoo vs. Yosemite National Park Hot Dogs
It’s Prairie Produce Week at Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago ! Frank Brunacci– the hotel’s executive chef– is celebrating the “Prairie Produce” of local farms with menu items crafted from ingredients harvested within driving distance to Chicago. Time Out Chicago quotes the chef: “Prairie Produce week is a celebration of the fantastic bounty available right here in the Midwest and presents an exciting opportunity for us to make a new connection with our guests.” In addition to these epicurean treats available at the restaurant, Prairie Produce Week will also bring a farmer’s market to The Terrace at Trump on Thursday, September 2 from 7- 11 am. Here’s what you can find at this “sky high farmer’s market” on the hotel’s 16th floor: “cheese from Nordic Creamery, sausages from Mint Creek Farm, handmade truffles from Katherine Anne Confections; produce from Nichols Farm; seasonal preserves from Rare Bird Preserves; beef and pork products from Slagel Farm; and much more.” Sixteen (the restaurant) will also offer a breakfast buffet made up of all the displayed produce, plus you’ll be able to have a “meet and greet with the farmers that put all those goods on your table.” Related Articles: Now Open: Trump Chicago’s Outdoor River Walk and Plaza Diamonds, Emeralds, Black Pearls: Jewel-Themed Spa Treatments at Trump International Chicago
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Prairie Produce Week and a Farmer’s Market at the Trump Chicago
The menu that the chefs will prepare includes food form the popular Thai Chicken Pizza and Waldorf Chicken Salad to the Avocado Egg Rolls and Kung Pao Spaghetti. The new CPK restaurant will also introduce a broad beverage menu from its …
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California Pizza Kitchen Opens First Restaurant in India | Seedol.com
Once the premier tourist destination in France, popular European royals and nobles, Biarritz is now open to everyone, from helpless romantics to hardcore surfers in search of the perfect wave. Back in the 19th century, Biarritz was what Saint-Tropez, Monte Carlo or Cannes are today – exclusive beach destinations for the rich and famous
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Biarritz: European Home of Surf
After cooking around DC in some good (Ethiopian food quickfire) and some yawn-inducing (vague Cold War metaphors) challenges, Bravo Top Chef DC ‘s final cheftestants are heading to delicious Singapore for the finale. In a series first, the chefs go international for the final leg of the competition, the first part of which airs Wednesday, Sept. 8 at 10 p.m
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Top Chef DC Finale Heads To Singapore
In the world of allergens, potato is an unexpectedly common trigger for some people. In the course cutting out foods that seemed to bother Baby Yum, I found it necessary to cut out potato from my diet. I just about went crazy! Where were my hash browns, my french fries, my baked potatoes, my starchy gnocchi, my knishes?
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Gluten-free Potato-free Carrot French Fry Recipe
Vinoteca What do you say about a restaurant in which the food is incredible, the service exceptional and the wine selection exciting but from where you want to escape because of the noise of customers having such a good time is just too much? As with many places serving food today (I purposely choose to avoid definitions such as restaurant, gastro-pub, trattoria etc as this applies to all), you get the feeling they never thought of soundproofing the location when decorating and as so often happens today, noise is confused with atmosphere. I might come across as “difficult” but I really would have loved the sound of laughter, people talking over each other to be heard to have been broken by something, anything
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Vinoteca – London wine bar with an appetite
Energy Kitchen Healthy Wraps Burgers Salads Smoothies – Standard Process Cleanse Diet 82 Christopher St Bt Bleeker and 7th Ave 212 414 8880 6+ other locations throughout NY and NJ www.energykitchen.com I’m on day 18th of a 21 day cleanse and feeling pretty good. It’s the third time I’ve done this cleanse and I think the familiarity with the routine (buying vegetables & fruits in bulk), the daily preparation, and the new raw recipes are making it a lot easier.
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Energy Kitchen Healthy Wraps Burgers Salads Smoothies – Standard Process Cleanse Diet
Anglo-Indian food is the delicious result of the British Raj in India. Indian Khansamas (cooks) took aspects of British cuisine and amalgamated them with Indian methods of cooking, spices, ingredients to create Anglo-Indian Cuisine! The result was soups tempered with cumin and red chillies, roasts cooked in whole spices like cloves, pepper and cinnamon, rissoles and croquettes flavored with turmeric and garam masala…. Over the years, Anglo-Indian cooking has become more Indian than British.
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Anglo Indian Recipes
Leaving maps and guidebooks behind, we’ve entered the Internet era and traveling itself has really changed. Far more conveninent than those big maps or huge guidebooks we were used to brining on vacation, the iPhone, the Blackberry or any other android-compatible smatphones can really make our life easier.
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Best Beaches in Puglia, Travel Apps, and Hot Chocolate
photo credit: -mrsraggle- I am well known for giving pretty damn good bear hugs, and while I’m not someone who eats much peanut butter, I do know it’s a staple of Canadian families’ breakfast. Lots of my friends who were born and raised in Canada (and even my family members in the US) do eat peanut butter and jam sandwiches frequently. So when Kraft contacted me about their campaign, I really liked it
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Spread the Feeling and Hug a Bear with Kraft Peanut Butter at Vancouver Aquarium
Goat cheese, sometimes called chevre, is a cheese product made from the goat’s milk. Goat cheeses can range in taste from strong and pungent, to delicate and mild, however, it does have a distinct tangy flavor which it inherits from the hormones in the goat’s milk.
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Baked Apple Cinnamon & Goat Cheese Tart