High Tea at the San Francisco Fairmont Hotel is a holiday tradition enjoyed by families every year. Though they serve it all year round it has become a truly special experience around the holidays. Each year features an enormous gingerbread house and impressive decorations. So partly to inaugurate the holiday season and partly in anticipation of the […]
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WanderFood Wednesday: Chasing Chai
Years before I stepped foot onto the red dirt of Delhi streets, one of my oldest friends sat me down in his kitchen in Santa Barbara and made masala chai from scratch, adding a dash of cayenne – two tricks he had learned on a recent trip to Morocco. I was hooked from the start, […]
How to Make Licorice Fern Tea
On the recent learn-to-forage Wild Edibles Tour that I took on Vancouver’s North Shore, one of the wild foods that our guide, Alexander McNaughton, identified was the licorice fern. Before you make licorice fern tea of your very own, make sure you research or learn from a forager how to identify licorice ferns in the […]