Food
Saffron
The most precious and most expensive spice in the world: Saffron.
The Saffron filaments, or threads, are actually the dried...
Wine
Wine descriptors made easy.
For some reason, many people become intimidated when it comes to describing a wine. They hear other people sound very knowledgeable...
Featured Artisan
Andrea Boudewijn – Superfine Bakery
Many years ago, approximately around 2004, I worked at Warner Bros. Online with 300 other people I now call friends and family....
Featured Festival
DineLA Restaurant Week January 12-24
When: January 12-24, 2010
Where: Throughout Los Angeles
Website: www.discoverlosangeles.com
dineLA Restaurant Week is a two-week...
Out of commission
Gah! I apologize for not staying up to date with the writing, but I have been out of commission since last Wednesday since suffering a ruptured ovarian cyst.
For those of you who don’t know what it is, I can liken it to the feeling of having a testicle explode that includes shooting leg, abdominal,...
A profile of MSG…
I was standing in the shower thinking about my next article when it dawned on me that I’ve become increasingly sensitive to MSG. I would say I’m sensitive and can taste it on the palate, but not extreme enough to experience dizzy spells, fainting, asthma type symptoms, headaches or even brain...
Excuse me, but its $6 per person.
The bill came out to $133 for a total of 7 people. The minimum requirement was $6 per person, but apparently we still didn’t meet the restaurants requirements. Hang on a sec, let me rewind and back it up a bit…. it doesn’t make sense, does it?
A meal in San Gabriel usually never goes...
The Nature of Burning Man
Throughout my years of pushing through teenage immaturity to fruitful adulthood, I’ve heard about a phenomenal event called “Burning Man”. I first learned about it at my fine years at Warner Bros. where a friend of mine named Suzanne (later to become Anahata) would take a full week...
San Diego Bay Wine + Food Festival
When: November 18 – 22, 2009
Where: San Diego Bay, Various Locations
Website: www.worldofwineevents.com
Nationally Acclaimed Celebrity Chefs, Winemakers, and Personalities to Lend Their Culinary Talents to the Festival’s Weeklong Foodie Experience
You won’t want to miss the 170 world-class...
History of Hawaii
The history of Hawaii goes back centuries earlier. More than 1500 years ago, Polynesians from the Marquesas Islands first set foot on Hawaii’s Big Island. With only the stars to guide them, they miraculously sailed over 2000 miles in canoes to migrate to the Islands.
The Aloha State became the...
Hong Kong the frugal way.
In case you didn’t know, it’s completely possible to only spend $100/day for a full 24 hours of entertainment, meals and cheap gifts. Hong Kong is one of the entertainment capitals of Asia, not to mention a place I used to call home. I recall the days of going to school at Kennedy Road Junior...
Hamilton’s Pier Four, Car Shows and Wingfest
During my years at the University of Western Ontario, I would frequently take the Greyhound bus from Toronto to London, which would stop in Hamilton to pick up more travelers. Back to present day, I visited my friend and her husband several times over the summer and I must say that Hamilton is a lot...
Koreatown, through campus, Yorkville and Jerusalem
I hate to admit it, but I do love browsing and window shopping. That’s not to say that I love spending money, I just love going out and enjoying all the beautiful things that people (or manufacturers have made). I appreciate all things made by man or nature. That being said, I was jonesing for...
Shopping + Food = ?
My past in Toronto is somewhat limited due to the fact that I only lived there for a short few months out of the 3 years I spent in London, Ontario. Toronto is home to me, only because I have family and a brother that live there. When I do visit, it’s always a real treat.
I was with a friend of...
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