Okay, foodie friends – this post is for you! I escaped Queenstown for a few days (coincidentally, the same few days that the weather finally cooperated) to spend time exploring Auckland. Most people refer to it as the capital of New Zealand, and that’s true if you ignore that Wellington is the government seat of […]
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Dining: Local bites
I’ve been horrendously remiss in posting my food pictures, but I hate being “that person” at the table, taking pictures of food for Instagram or Facebook. Okay, well, maybe I hate being that person for a few minutes while I take the photo, and then I’m the person who’s super happy to have taken the […]
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Sweet as: The Grocery Experience
One of my all-time favorite pasttimes is walking through a grocery store in a foreign country. I picked up the habit ages ago – probably when I was living in Spain when I was 19 – and I’ve gone into a grocery store or food shop in every country I’ve ever visited. Most of the […]
Dining: the art of donuts
I’m not a big fan of donuts, really. I never was, even though I have a devoted sweet tooth. Something about frying the dough turned me off, even though I could be drawn in by just about anything else that contained sugar. That is, until recently. In the winter of 2015, the Salty Donut had […]
Baking: Strawberry Shortcake
A friend of mine in Miami used to host a pot-luck dinner party every other month. Since his circle of friends is made up of people from all over the world (as is the city, frankly), the food often represented a pretty broad collection of of home countries. So not only did we get to […]