Eating Like a Local in Puerto Vallarta
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, has an entire culture built around fabulous dining. The problem, however, can be hunting down unique dining establishments without being directed to crowded, touristy restaurants. Online reviews can be helpful, but of course those are...
Bison & Beef: a marriage made in heaven
As the child of frugal German immigrants, I ate a lot of meatloaf as a child, only we called it falscher Hase, literally, fake rabbit. After WWII, when meat rations were still in effect, German housewives would mix up whatever meaty scraps they had, add lots of...
Moroccan Stoup offers Warm Comfort
As defined by Rachel Ray, a stoup comes in somewhere between a soup and a stew in consistency…and that is what we have with this simple-to-assemble one pot wonder. For the vegetable you can use any leafy green or even a combination of several: kale is...
Three Rules of Gelato: How to Order Like an Italian
“So… Italian gelato. Take the deliciousness of a regular ice-cream cone, times it by a million, then sprinkle it with crushed-up unicorn horns.” (Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Gelato) Gelato. Just thinking about it causes me to break out in...
Guilty conscience?
Just over two weeks after the controversial opening of a McDonald’s in a Vatican-owned building just outside St. Peter’s Square, on January 16th the popular fast food chain started to distribute some 1,000 free meals to the homeless from here. Ironically, this “act of...
Holy Cow! The Holy See Rents to McDonald’s and The Hard Rock Café
I’m culture editor of the monthly print magazine Inside the Vatican. In the May 2015 issue I published an interview with Monsignor Pasquale Iacobone, the Holy See’s Special Delegate for “Expo”, the World’s Fair with a food theme hosted in Milan from May 1 to October...
CauliBroc with Spicy Mint Sauce
Broccoli and cauliflower make fine bedfellows when covered with this exceptional sauce, which can also be used to spice up other vegetables ordinarily labeled bland or boring. Quantities do not need to be exact…start with what’s written here and...
A Taste-Tempting Oasis in the Heart of St. Augustine:
At street level, A1A is indeed a bar with 11 tables and an onsite micro brewery. Upstairs, you’ll find the kitchen, another bar, a full-service restaurant with 55 tables and a banquet room complete with crystal chandeliers that can seat up to 100 diners.
Lib’s Grill: Great Food and Drink North of Baltimore
When Lib’s Grill was getting ready to open the community held its breath. Would this be a much needed improvement over the last restaurant to occupy the space? Perry Hall needed a restaurant and bar with a fun atmosphere and good food. Lib’s Grill delivered bigtime...
A French Oasis in Baden-Baden with One Michelin Star
STÉPHAN BERNHARD: An Alsatian, French, and European Chef In mid-July thanks to the Tourist Board of Baden-Baden I spent three days in this charming spa town in Baden-Württemberg. I visited several museums: Frieder Burda devoted to contemporary art, another to the...