With over 45 million people passing through its concourses in 2010, Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport is such a major hub that it’s actually self-classified as an “airport city.” But if that sounds like a crowded, oppressive super-plex right out of Blade Runner, think again. The Dutch have long been getting it right when it comes to […]
Food & drink
Local Flavor: Toronto’s Organic Garden and Bee Colony in the Clouds
Local. Organic. Sustainable. Biodynamic. Fair Trade. These are not just lofty concepts, this is the working language of the kitchen at Toronto’s Fairmont Royal York Hotel. During my stay at the Royal York last fall, I had the wonderful opportunity to pop out into a sunlit patch of nirvana at 14 stories high. The Royal […]
Local Flavor: W by Wanlamun
There is only one Southeast Asian nation that has never seen European colonization. Sidled in between French Indochina and colonies of the British Empire, Thailand has always held its own ground. But if there is a happy unity of Thai traditions with European methodology, I may have found it. The W by Wanlamun restaurant in […]