by Candi Licence | Jul 18, 2019 | Travel, Travel blog
Walking into a traditional Greek Taverna is like being welcomed into a close friend’s home for a lovingly prepared homestyle meal. Plan to linger, savor local wine, inhale the enticing scents wafting from the kitchen, and eat delicious, wholesome food. The taverna is...
by Lucy Gordan | Jul 3, 2019 | Travel, Travel blog
Most readers of Epicurean-Traveler.com will know that in the food world CIA does not stand for “Central Intelligence Agency”, but rather The Culinary Institute of America. Founded in 1946 in Hyde Park, the birthplace of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 70 miles up...
by Lucy Gordan | Feb 10, 2019 | Travel, Travel blog
Basilicata, also known by its ancient name Lucania, is a region of southern Italy, bordering on Campania to the west, Apulia (Puglia) to the north and east, and Calabria to the south. The region can be thought of as the “instep” of boot-shaped Italy, with Calabria...
by Kurt Jacobson | Jan 18, 2019 | Travel, Travel blog
An article by a former chef suggesting how to make cooking on vacation safe and enjoyable.
by Lucy Gordan | Sep 23, 2018 | Travel, Travel blog
If you still play “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?”, an educational video game first released in 1985, I bet you won’t be able to locate “Hora e Arbëreshëvet” on the world map. I can now, but only because I visited there in mid-July. Upon arrival and during a...
by Lucy Gordan | Jul 8, 2018 | Travel, Travel blog
During the past few years Puglia has become one of Italy’s touristic hotspots thanks to its delicious food, wines, and olive oil, multi-culture history (Greek, Roman, and Swabian), folk traditions like the pizzica (a frenzied local dance), beautiful white sandy...
by Lucy Gordan | May 6, 2018 | Travel, Travel blog
Kenny Dunn grew up in Upper Dublin, Pennsylvania, a suburb north of Philadelphia. With a Bachelor’s degree in marketing and finance from Penn State University and a Master’s in development management from American University in Washington D.C. in 1997 Kenny founded...
by Barb Harmon | Apr 25, 2018 | Travel, Travel blog
For 120 years, The Ritz Paris has been ranked among the most luxurious hotels in the world. It has been featured in novels, plays, and movies…Mademoiselle Chanel called it home for 34 years…it’s simply legendary. Since its opening almost two years...
by Lucy Gordan | Apr 1, 2018 | Travel, Travel blog
In keeping with the saying “Rome wasn’t built in a day”, Rome is like a layer cake with monuments and art works dating from every period of history from 753 BC, when according to more than legend the Eternal City was founded by King Romulus, to the present. After...
by Tim Miller | Mar 18, 2018 | Travel, Travel blog
Unable to tell a potjie from a bobotie, my wife and I arrived in Cape Town ready to eat. Armed with a list of must-try local specialties, we set out to explore the city in our favorite method: with our taste buds leading the way. As we sauntered down Cape Town’s...
by Lucy Gordan | Mar 13, 2018 | Travel, Travel blog
Italy’s national newspaper, La Repubblica, has published guidebooks about Italy’s many regions since 2003. Its first and only guidebook in English is Roma Maxima: Stories, Places, and Secrets, Guidebook to an Eternal City. The first guidebooks to Rome, written for the...
by Lucy Gordan | Feb 18, 2018 | Travel, Travel blog
I’ve lived in Rome for almost half a century but my connection to Italy goes back another ten years to 1957, when I boarded the SS Saturnia to travel to Naples, Pompei, Paestum, Rome, Turin, the Val Pellice, and Venice. My close friend Marjorie Shaw’s connection goes...