I’ve always been a do-it-yourself, sling-your-backpack-onto-the-roof-of-the-bus kind of traveler. But when I was offered the chance to learn chocolate-making secrets from the pastry chef at a chic Arizona resort, I stashed my backpack in the closet, packed my strappy sandals, and flew south. The setting was the Montelucia Resort and Spa, a Moorish-inspired property facing […]
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WanderFood Wednesday: Breakfast Pork Chops and Wife Cakes (Free Real Estate Tips, Too)
“Do you speak Cantonese?” the man at the next table asks, setting down his Sing Tao Daily and peering at me over the top of his reading glasses. I shake my head. “Then why do you come to a Chinese cafe? Why don’t you eat at Tim Hortons?” I smile at him. “That would be […]
WanderFood Wednesday: What’s Shiny, Sweet, and Slightly Stinky?
“Here, smell this,” my husband Alan said the other night when he came home holding a paper bag. I looked at him skeptically as he put the sack to my nose. “I brought you a surprise,” he said. “Don’t worry. It’s food.” I do love surprises — especially when they involve eating — but I […]