Category Food
Hoi An – Taste of Hoi An Food Tour
The alarm went off at 6:30am this morning; by 7:15am we were sitting in the lobby of our hotel waiting for Neville Dean to show up. He’s a garrulous Australian entrepreneur who “retired” to Hoi An a few years ago with his “long-suffering wife Colleen” (that’s how he always refers to her) to live out the rest of […]
Bai Tu Long Bay – What we ate
I have to admit I started the Halong Bay cruise with some trepidation about the food situation. I knew the scenery would be fantastic, and I figured the lodgings couldn’t be too bad given the glowing Tripadvisor reviews, but I knew that boats and food and I don’t always mix well. And I’m not talking about getting seasick and […]
Hanoi – Food tour!
What happens when you hire a food guide and tell him that the only thing off the table is dog? YOU EAT WORMS!!! And frogs, and eel, and fermented pork, and a whole bunch of other delicious things we never would have found on our own — or if we had found it, never would […]
Hanoi – What we ate
In the past few weeks, as I’ve told people that I would be traveling to Vietnam, people asked me what I was going to do. My response? Eat food. Yeah, sure, there’s nature and Uncle Ho and some other stuff (like super-chaotic traffic — more on that later) but oh, the food! Each region in Vietnam is known […]
Desert wedding — El Paso and Las Cruces
I can honestly say that I never thought I’d go to El Paso, Texas. Especially not for a wedding. Double especially not for a Jewish wedding. But I did! And it was wonderful and fun. I went for the bride, Kristin, who is one of my good friends from law school. She’s originally from […]
Memorial Day – Cycling, sailing, custard, crabs
Memorial Day was a full day of outdoor fun. Mark, a friend from church, invited a bunch of people down to his parents’ house on the water at Breton Bay, a tributary of the Potomac River near where it feeds into the Chesapeake Bay. It was a multi-stage affair: A group of guys (and one […]
Adventures in cooking and trying not to get carried away
I remember my parents telling me a story once about my grandmother’s (possibly unreasonable but totally understandable) drive for perfection: She was having some people over for Sunday dinner and so, the day before, decided to make new curtains for the kitchen. Since it turned out to be a bigger project than expected, she essentially had to […]
Polo!
Okay, so the question on everyone’s mind since Saturday is, Where has polo been all my life? Seriously. It’s like all of the best things about a football game (fun ambiance, good friends, outdoors), only there are horses instead of football, people wear blazers with pocket squares instead of fan jerseys, and the foodstand sells fine Italian […]
The grills are out at Heidelberg Bakery!
One of my favorite hallmarks of summer: grilled German sausage, sauerkraut and potato salad at Heidelberg Bakery. They grill every Saturday from mid-May until it gets cold again. And of course it’s only a few steps from the grills outside to the inside counters where all sorts of baked goodies are just waiting to be […]
Chicago – Stars! (both the Michelin and the Broadway kind)
There are only three cities in the US that have been graced with a Michelin guide. Chicago is one of them. Naturally, this means that Saturday night found Amanda and me seated in the swanky downtown dining room — complete with snowy tablecloths and witch-hazel stick arrangements — of the Michelin-starred and James Beard award-winning restaurant NAHA. We had […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 